一次核泄漏事件引起了人们对美国唯一深层核废料储存所的疑问,也让科学家们再次有机会要求对地下核废料储存所进行更多的研究。2014年2月14日,位于新墨西哥州卡尔斯巴德附近的废料隔离试验工场(Waste Isolation Pilot Plant,WIPP)发生放射性钚和镅泄漏,在这里,来自美国核武器计划的数千桶污染物被存放于地表以下500余米深处的盐岩层中。卫生与环境方面的影响看来较小, A nuclear leak caused doubts about the only deep nuclear waste storage facility in the United States, giving scientists another chance to demand more research on underground nuclear waste storage facilities. On February 14, 2014, radioactive plutonium and plutonium leaks occurred at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) near Carlsbad, New Mexico, where thousands of barrels of contaminants from the U.S. nuclear weapons program were stored In the ground below 500 meters deep salt rock layer. The impact on health and the environment appears to be small,