[CPEO-MEF] Idaho labs nuke waste

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Andrus, Batt testify on deal to remove nuke waste from INL
Former governors want feds to uphold 1995 agreement

Christopher Smith
The Associated Press
Idaho Statesman
February 7, 2006

Two former Idaho governors asked a federal judge Monday to uphold the 
intent of a landmark agreement reached more than a decade ago and 
require the federal government to dig up radioactive waste at the Idaho 
National Laboratory for shipment out of state by 2018.

The Department of Energy is arguing that the unprecedented 1995 Idaho 
cleanup agreement that grew out of the lengthy battle waged against the 
agency by the governors, Democrat Cecil Andrus and Republican Phil Batt, 
covered only the 65,000 cubic meters of "transuranic" waste stored 
aboveground at INL, not the transuranic waste buried in barrels, crates, 
cardboard boxes and unlined pits.

Transuranic waste is gloves, rags and other debris contaminated with 
radioactive material that takes thousands of years to decay to safe levels.
The Justice Department is asking U.S. District Judge Edward Lodge to 
reject what it calls Idaho's "revisionist" interpretation of the 
agreement or to simply void the 1995 pact altogether on the grounds that 
the two parties had materially different understandings of the deal they 
cut.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.idahostatesman.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2006602070349

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