Idaho Plans to Fine Feds for Not Shipping Nuclear Waste
Source: Associated Press
Idaho plans to fine the federal government $3,600 a day for missing a deadline to remove 900,000 gallons of liquid nuclear waste from tanks at a southeast Idaho nuclear facility, state officials said.
The state Department of Environmental Quality said it rejected a request for another extension from the U.S. Department of Energy to go past the Dec. 31 deadline to remove the radioactive waste at the Idaho National Laboratory.
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The state said fines will increase to $6,000 a day if the waste isn't gone by July 1.
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The 890-square-mile nuclear facility in southeastern Idaho is known as the place where nuclear energy generated electricity for the first time, in 1951. During the Cold War, the site also became home to millions of tons of nuclear waste generated at sites in other states.
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