Nation : U.S. to Pay for Ida. Nuclear Cleanup
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BOISE, Ida. — The U.S. Department of Energy today agreed to pay for an accelerated, $456-million cleanup of buried nuclear waste at its Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Gov. Cecil D. Andrus announced today.
The agreement came more than three months after the governor closed Idaho’s borders to temporary storage of nuclear waste.
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