WIPP Clean Rooms Set Up for Experiments

July 25, 2007

(AP) -- Two multi-ton clean rooms have been lowered into the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant for eventual physics experiments that need to be shielded from cosmic rays and naturally occurring radiation on the surface of the Earth.

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