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Thursday, October 30, 2014

Did you know the Idaho National Lab is being moved to Colorado?


Readers of this list will note that the Department of Energy, without so much as a Federal Register notice, has in a single quote to the New York Times, moved the majestic Idaho National Laboratory from its historical roots on the Idaho Arco Desert some 250 miles north of Salt Lake City to the foothills of Denver, Colorado.

Idaho Falls Mayor Tommy Tumlin told the the Associated Press in Boise, "we didn't know it was missing until the buses taking workers to the site came back into town fully loaded."

DOE Field office spokesman Tim Thompson referred media inquiries to DOE's public affiars office in Washington, DC. 


"The department has begun a review of how it packages plutonium wastes at Los Alamos and its laboratories at Idaho Springs, Colo., and Oak Ridge, Tenn., said Frank Marcinowski, the deputy assistant secretary for waste management. "



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