Idaho Nuclear Waste Shipments in Limbo

摘要

One of the largest ripple effects of the WIPP shutdown is being felt at Idaho National Laboratory's desert site, where steel drums filled with transuranic waste are piling up. Before the accident, Idaho's cleanup effort was shipping more transuranic waste to WIPP than any other DOE facility. Officials at the Idaho site are concerned WIPP's still-uncertain future could result in missing at least one major state-mandated cleanup deadline. Idaho is the only state with a court order requiring nuclear waste to be removed by specific dates.