WIPP Information Center
WIPP may refer to: * Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, a deep geological repository for nuclear waste * Women in Periodical Publishing (today known as Exceptional Women in Publishing) * The ICAO airport code assigned for Sultan Mahmud Badaruddin II International Airport Sultan Mahmud Badaruddin II International Airport ( id, Bandar Udara Internasional Sultan Mahmud Badarudin II) is an international airport serving the city of Palembang, South Sumatra and surrounding areas. It is located in the region KM.10 Ta ...

Waste Isolation Pilot Plant
The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, or WIPP, is the world's third deep geological repository (after Germany's Repository for radioactive waste Morsleben and the Schacht Asse II salt mine) licensed to store transuranic radioactive waste for 10,000 years. The storage rooms at the WIPP are 2,150 feet (660 m) underground in a salt formation of the Delaware Basin. The waste is from the research and production of United States nuclear weapons only. The plant started operation in 1999, and the project is estimated to cost $19 billion in total. It is located approximately east of Carlsbad, New Mexico, in eastern Eddy County, in an area known as the southeastern New Mexico nuclear corridor, which also includes the National Enrichment Facility near Eunice, New Mexico, the Waste Control Specialists low-level waste disposal facility just over the state line near Andrews, Texas, and the International Isotopes, Inc. facility to be built near Eunice, New Mexico. Various mishaps at the plant i ...
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Exceptional Women In Publishing
Exceptional Women in Publishing (EWIP) is a non-profit organization formerly known as Women in Periodical Publishing (WIPP). EWIP's goal is to help women in publishing support each other, develop leadership skills, and balance professional and personal interests. EWIP's programs are meant to foster growth for smaller, independent publications by and for women and to offer a range of community building and professional development programs through its gatherings, online communications, advocacy, mentoring and research. EWIP mission is dual: to educate, empower and support women in publishing and to educate, empower and support women through the power of publishing. It does this through its Women's Leadership Conference, its annual Exceptional Woman in Publishing award, and its bi-monthly newsletter, EWIP Wired. Background EWIP is run entirely by volunteers. Its membership comprises women from all areas of publishing as opposed to strictly editorial, business, sales, or productio ...
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