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INL Report: Spent Nuclear Fuel Controversy Flares Again
http://magicvalley.com/news/local/article_e7abc535-da32-509d-b8f1-68aeb6ae540d.html
INL Report: Spent Nuclear Fuel Controversy Flares Again
July 13, 2015 2:00 am • LUKE RAMSETH The Post Register
IDAHO FALLS • A plan to bring two shipments of commercial spent nuclear fuel to Idaho National Laboratory touched off a statewide firestorm in January.
Former governors Phil Batt and Cecil Andrus blasted the shipment plan in joint news conferences and Attorney General Lawrence Wasden said he wouldn’t allow in the fuel rods until a troubled radioactive waste treatment plant is up and running.
Now, the stakes have grown exponentially.
Nuclear watchdog group Snake River Alliance last month pointed out one of the shipments was tethered to a much larger future project — one that involved conducting research on a massive amount of commercial spent fuel.
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“I have been frustrated with the federal government and DOE ever since 1972,” said the 83-year-old Andrus. “It hasn’t changed. Every time you turn over another rock, (they say), ‘Oops, well, we didn’t tell you about that either.’”
INL Report: Spent Nuclear Fuel Controversy Flares Again
July 13, 2015 2:00 am • LUKE RAMSETH The Post Register
IDAHO FALLS • A plan to bring two shipments of commercial spent nuclear fuel to Idaho National Laboratory touched off a statewide firestorm in January.
Former governors Phil Batt and Cecil Andrus blasted the shipment plan in joint news conferences and Attorney General Lawrence Wasden said he wouldn’t allow in the fuel rods until a troubled radioactive waste treatment plant is up and running.
Now, the stakes have grown exponentially.
Nuclear watchdog group Snake River Alliance last month pointed out one of the shipments was tethered to a much larger future project — one that involved conducting research on a massive amount of commercial spent fuel.
<snip>
“I have been frustrated with the federal government and DOE ever since 1972,” said the 83-year-old Andrus. “It hasn’t changed. Every time you turn over another rock, (they say), ‘Oops, well, we didn’t tell you about that either.’”