Department of Energy leaders joined tribal, state, and local officials; contractors; and workers at Idaho National Laboratory on March 28 to mark a recent milestone with the state of Idaho nearly 25 years in the making. The milestone was the completion of a spent fuel wet-to-dry project more than nine months ahead of a 1995 Idaho Settlement Agreement deadline. Transfers of spent fuel elements began in the late 1990s and were completed in March. Honored were spent fuel handlers, operations personnel, engineers, radiological protection employees, and others who worked on the spent fuel project. About 500 attendees joined in the ceremonies. Among them were Brad Little, Idaho's governor; Raul Labrador, Idaho's attorney general; Connie Flohr, Idaho Cleanup Project manager; Ty Blackford, Idaho Environmental Coalition president; John Wagner, INL director; William "Ike" White, senior advisor for the DOE's Office of Environmental Management; Katy Huff, the DOE's assistant secretary, Office of Nuclear Energy; Gil Pratt, Naval Reactors representative; and congressional staffers.
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