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INL / Director Says New Agreement Between DOE And State Needed To Ensure Operation Past 2035

By Kamen Kraev
10 February 2020

Director Says New Agreement Between DOE And State Needed To Ensure Operation Past 2035
The Advanced Test Reactor at Idaho National Lab. Image courtesy INL.
The US Department of Energy (DOE) and the state of Idaho should reach a new agreement on nuclear waste and spent nuclear fuel to allow the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) to continue its research activities beyond 2035, according to the facility’s director Mark Peters.Mr Peters told the state House’s environment, energy and technology committee that an agreement signed in 1995 and presently in force, requiring all nuclear waste and spent fuel to be out of Idaho by 2035, could jeopardise the operation of the INL in the future.

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