A Waste Isolation Pilot employee tested positive for COVID-19 on Tuesday after falling before this month.
This is the sixth positive check reported for a nuclear deposit employee and the time employed through the Nuclear Waste Partnership contractor.
The worker works at the WIPP site, however, had not been on the premises since July 7 and became on July 11, read in a press release from the Nuclear Waste Association.
The positive check result won Tuesday morning.
No other worker was exposed to the worker, read the press, and all contact and disinfection protocols were followed.
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The most recent case of COVID-1nine at WIPP follows the fifth positive result of the July 9 installation of a CAST Specialty Trucking employee who worked for WIPP at the Carlsbad truck terminal and would have had a regimen interaction with other WIPP employees.
Previously, a nuclear waste association worker tested positive for the virus in June after a worker at subcontractor Constructors Inc. tested positive in May.
Also in May, the Granite Construction subcontractor reported a positive result for COVID-19.
The first positive check for a WIPP worker’s virus was reported in April through a worker from the Carlsbad Technical Assistance Contractor (CTAC), who leads Operations in Carlsbad’s workplace outside the U.S. Department of Energy. To monitor WIPP activities.
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On Tuesday, the New Mexico Department of Health reported 307 new COVID-19s for a total of 17517 with 10 deaths for a total of 588 /
Eddy County had nine new instances on Tuesday, bringing its total to 196, while Lea County had 32 new instances and a total of 411.
“As always, the fitness and protection of WIPP staff remains the (local Carlsbad office) and NWP’s most sensible priority,” reads in a WIPP statement. “WIPP has continued to paint with all contractors to ensure that protocols are followed through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).”
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Donvan Mager, spokesman for the Nuclear Waste Association, said in June that WIPP is entering the 3-moment phase for the facility to return to operation in general.
He stated that shipments of waste to the facility would accumulate from five to ten consistently with the week, while some workers would be returned to the site.
“The WIPP is recently in phase two of a three-phase technique to return to general operations. Phase two is to continue to monitor the status of the COVID-19 pandemic strongly,” Mager said. “It also means that some more painters are turning to paintings for various projects and the scope of the paintings.”
Adrian Hedden can be reached at 575-628-5516, [email protected] or @AdrianHedden on Twitter.