The Nation - News from Sept. 4, 1986
A train hauling the second of an expected 20 shipments of radioactive debris from Pennsylvania’s 1979 Three Mile Island nuclear accident to Idaho carried twice as much waste as was carried on the first cross-country trip in July, an Energy Department official said. The train, with about 15,000 pounds of nuclear waste, was bound for the Idaho National Engineering Laboratory in Idaho Falls.
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