New Mexico regulators worry about US plans to ship radioactive waste back from Texas

New Mexico officials are raising safety concerns about federal plans to repackage and return hundreds of drums that contain the same kind of materials that prompted a radiation release at the repository in 2014. The drums have been sitting in West Texas for close to a decade now.

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