November 2021

     The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) is a federal facility in an old salt mine near Carlsbad, New Mexico. The plant was completed about twenty years ago and put into operation to receive shipments of radioactive waste from national laboratories and nuclear weapon production facilities around the U.S.

Ambient office = 73 nanosieverts per hour

Ambient outside = 19 nanosieverts per hour

Soil exposed to rain water = 127 nanosieverts per hour

Ambient office = 80 nanosieverts per hour

Ambient outside = 89 nanosieverts per hour

Soil exposed to rain water = 91 nanosieverts per hour