- CARLSBAD, NM -- A tractor-trailer
truck carrying nuclear waste from Idaho to the federal waste dump near
Carlsbad was hit by a pickup truck that caught on fire. Officials say no
one was seriously injured and there was no leak of radioactivity.
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- The driver of the pickup truck -- 19-year-old Israel
Alvidrez of Seminole, Texas -- was being held in the Eddy County jail on
charges of drunken driving and driving without a license.
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- The assistant manager of the waste program for the Energy
Department's Carlsbad field office is Kerry Watson. He says there was no
damage to the transport containers bound for the Waste Isolation Pilot
Plant.
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- The accident occurred early Sunday morning on U-S 62-180
on the north side of Carlsbad. Watson says it was the first in 1,144 shipments
to WIPP.
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