A subcontractor on New Mexico’s Waste Isolation Pilot plant, one that stores nuclear waste, has filed a $32 million lawsuit claiming the operator of the plant breached its contract to rebuild it.
The suit was filed by Critical Applications Alliance, a firm hired by Nuclear Waste Partnership in 2018 in a $135 million contract to construct a ventilation system at WIPP. What prompted the lawsuit was when WIPP ended the contract two years into the project.
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