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WORLD NEWS Monday 28 noveMber 2022

Woman dies on hike in Utah’s Zion Park, husband rescued

Associated Press
SPRINGDALE, Utah (AP) —
A woman died and a man
was rescued and treated
for hypothermia after they
were caught in extreme
cold weather while hiking
in Utah’s Zion National Park,
officials said.
The married couple were
on a permitted, 16-mile
(25-kilometer) hike through
the park area known as the
Narrows, the National Park
Service said in a statement
Thursday. The woman, 31,
and the man, 33, were not
identified by the park ser-
vice. The Zion National Park
Search and Rescue Team
responded on Wednesday
morning after shuttle driv-
ers said visitors reported an
injured man and a non-re-
sponsive woman in the Nar- Zion National Park near Springdale, Utah, is pictured on Sept. 15, 2015. A woman died and a man
rows, the park service said. was rescued and treated for hypothermia after they were caught in extreme cold weather while
The rescue team found hiking in Utah's Zion National Park, officials said. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)
the man on a trail be-
ing helped by other hikers termined the woman had they became “dangerous- ministered CPR to the wom-
and transported him to the died, the park service said. ly cold” overnight and ex- an before the rescue team
Zion Emergency Opera- The couple started their perienced symptoms con- arrived, the park service
tions Center for treatment. trip through the Narrows sistent with hypothermia, said.The Washington Coun-
Rescuers moved further on Tuesday. They stopped the park service said. ty Sheriff’s Office, Utah Of-
up the Narrows and found about 1.5 miles (2.4 kilome- Early on Wednesday morn- fice of the Medical Examin-
the woman near the Virgin ters) from the north end of ing, the man sought help er and the park service are
River. They administered Riverside Walk, a paved and the woman remained investigating the cause of
emergency aid but de- trail. The man told rescuers in place. Other visitors ad- the woman’s death.q

U.S nuclear waste repository begins filling new disposal area

country that package up the repository and a costly
waste and ship it to WIPP. overhaul of the policies
Known as Panel 8, the new and procedures that gov-
area consists of seven sep- ern WIPP and the nation’s
arate rooms for placing multibillion-dollar cleanup
special boxes and barrels program for Cold War-era
packed with lab coats, rub- waste.
ber gloves, tools and debris Operations had to be re-
contaminated with pluto- duced after the repository
nium and other radioactive reopened because areas
elements. of the facility were contam-
Each room measures 33 inated and airflow needed
feet (10 meters) wide, 16 for mining and disposal op-
feet (4.9 meters) high and erations was limited.
runs the length of a football Now, a multimillion-dollar
This March 6, 2014, file photo shows the Waste Isolation Pilot field minus the end zones. project is underway to in-
Plant, the nation's only underground nuclear waste repository, Carved out of an ancient stall a new ventilation sys-
near Carlsbad, New Mexico. On Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2022, officials salt formation about half a tem, and state regulators
at the facility said workers there started using a newly mined mile (0.8 kilometers) deep, are considering a permit
disposal area at the repository. the subterranean landfill lo- change that some critics
(AP Photo/Susan Montoya Bryan, File)
cated outside of Carlsbad have said could lead to ex-
By S. MONTOYA BRYAN Officials at the Waste Iso- received its first shipment panded operations.
Associated Press lation Pilot Plant made the in 1999. The idea is that the Sean Dunagan, president
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) announcement this week, shifting salt will eventually and project manager of
— Workers at the nation’s saying the first containers entomb the radioactive Nuclear Waste Partnership,
only underground nuclear of waste to be entombed waste left from decades of the contractor that man-
waste repository have start- in the new area came from bomb-making and nuclear ages the repository, said
ed using a newly mined Oak Ridge National Labo- weapons research. in a statement that op-
disposal area at the under- ratory in Tennessee — one In 2014, a fire and separate erations already have be-
ground facility in southern of the many labs and gov- radiation release forced a come more efficient with
New Mexico. ernment sites across the nearly three-year closure of the new panel.q