Carlsbad field office. But on Tuesday, officials said that additional testing revealed that another release, this one very small, had occurred on March 11. According to the Energy Department, the second leak was not expected to have any impact.
Mr. Franco said he was optimistic that a team of workers could safely go underground in the next several weeks to try to figure out what went wrong. But the investigation, which will be painstaking, is still in its early stages, and the truckloads of contaminated Cold War waste from around the country that usually keep the plant bustling have been placed delayed.
Mr. Franco, a Carlsbad native, moved back with his wife to work at the plant after spending years at nuclear facilities elsewhere.
Like others here, he emphasized that the plant was critical to the nation and to the town.
This is a place, not far from the Texas state line, that once relied on the boom-and-bust whims of potash mining and production from the oil and gas wells that speckle the endless
Carlsbad field office. But on Tuesday, officials said that additional testing revealed that another release, this one very small, had occurred on March 11. According to the Energy Department, the second leak was not expected to have any impact.
Mr. Franco said he was optimistic that a team of workers could safely go underground in the next several weeks to try to figure out what went wrong. But the investigation, which will be painstaking, is still in its early stages, and the truckloads of contaminated Cold War waste from around the country that usually keep the plant bustling have been placed delayed.
Mr. Franco, a Carlsbad native, moved back with his wife to work at the plant after spending years at nuclear facilities elsewhere.
Like others here, he emphasized that the plant was critical to the nation and to the town.
This is a place, not far from the Texas state line, that once relied on the boom-and-bust whims of potash mining and production from the oil and gas wells that speckle the endless
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