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Saturday, April 4, 2015

Moving Forward To Address Nuclear Waste Storage And Disposal

Moving Forward To Address Nuclear Waste Storage And Disposal

By John Kotek | U.S. Department of Energy
Trucks with TRU waste
Thirty years ago, our world looked very different. The Berlin Wall still divided Germany. The United States was still embroiled in a nuclear arms race with the Soviet Union. In 1985, a decision was made to “co-mingle” defense waste from weapons production and civilian nuclear waste from energy production — to dispose of them in

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