Crews expand cleanup of nuclear weapons waste at Idaho National Labratory

Crews have begun excavating Cold War-era weapons waste from a second burial site at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Radioactive Waste Management Complex in the eastern Idaho desert.

Cleanup work at the facility, located within the 890-square mile Idaho National Laboratory http://www.inl.gov/ , began in 2005. So far, the recovery project has focused on excavating radioactive and hazardous wastes, repackaging the materials, then shipping them in trucks for permanent disposal at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in New Mexico.

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