The Nation - News from Oct. 23, 1988
A boxcar filled with low-level radioactive waste was headed back from Idaho to the Rocky Flats nuclear weapons plant near Denver, three days after Gov. Cecil D. Andrus banned the temporary storage in Idaho of any new shipments. The boxcar had been at a rail yard in the eastern Idaho city of Blackfoot, the last stop before a temporary waste storage facility at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Idaho National Engineering Laboratory. Andrus issued an order last week banning the storage of additional waste at the lab in an effort to force the Energy Department to open the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant near Carlsbad, N. M., the nation’s first permanent repository for low-level nuclear waste.
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