J6. Emergency Exhaust Airway at WIPP. Should an accidental release of radiation occur within the WIPP system of underground chambers, exhaust ventilation air would be diverted through a bank of filters before being released through this duct into the atmosphere around the plant. Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, near Carlsbad, New Mexico. 25 February 1994.
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