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Article: KEEP ON TRUCKIN' NUCLEAR WASTE AWAY FROM NORTHWEST STATES.(Editorial)(Column)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- November 5, 1997
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We who live in Idaho should be celebrating. Thanks to our congressional delegation the power of the federal government will soon crush the rebellion in Nevada; we will force that state to accept all the nation's high-level nuclear waste.
Last week the U.S. House approved a bill that would create a temporary storage facility in the Nevada desert for used reactor fuel now kept at 71 commercial nuclear power plants in 31 states. It would begin accepting the 40,000 tons of waste as early as 2002. The margin of passage was enough to override a promised veto by President Clinton.
Good news for states with nuclear reactors. Soon we will get rid of spent nuclear ...