{
  "id": "wipp",
  "slug": "wipp",
  "name": "Waste Isolation Pilot Plant",
  "stage": "repository",
  "company_id": null,
  "country_iso3": "USA",
  "lat": 32.372,
  "lon": -103.794,
  "capacity_value": null,
  "capacity_unit": "m³",
  "capacity_year": null,
  "capacity_note": "Over 90,000 m³ of transuranic waste emplaced. Not spent fuel: WIPP takes defence transuranic waste only, and is legally barred from accepting commercial spent fuel or high-level waste.\n",
  "output_value": null,
  "output_unit": null,
  "output_tu": null,
  "output_year": null,
  "status": "operating",
  "commissioned": "1999",
  "notes": "The only operating deep geological repository in the world, 650 metres down in a salt bed that creeps closed and self-seals around the waste. It matters here as proof that deep disposal is engineerable — but it holds defence transuranic waste, not the commercial spent fuel that the rest of this page is about, and the distinction is often lost in argument.\n",
  "source_name": "World Nuclear Association, Storage and Disposal of Radioactive Waste",
  "source_url": "https://world-nuclear.org/information-library/nuclear-fuel-cycle/nuclear-waste/storage-and-disposal-of-radioactive-waste",
  "source_ref": null,
  "company_name": null,
  "company_slug": null,
  "url": "https://nuclearchain.net/facilities/wipp/",
  "license": "CC BY 4.0",
  "attribution": "NuclearChain (nuclearchain.net)"
}