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• Idaho Cleanup Project gets $468M

  Funds will remediate hazardous & nuclear waste at INL creating over 500 jobs. President Barack Obama's economic stimulus package showed up in Idaho this week with a whopping $468 million for cleanup of hazardous and nuclear waste in eastern Idaho. The Department of Energy approved the funding drawn from a $6 billion line item included in the package passed by Congress earlier this year. A portion... Posted Apr 01 2009, 06:43 PM by Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes Filed under: Idaho Cleanup Project, obama, hazardous, nuclear waste

• Idaho signs new nuclear waste cleanup agreement

  It removes a threat to the Snake River aquifer from transuranic wastes Idaho Governor C.L. "Butch" Otter (left) stepped into history  this week joining former Idaho governors Cecil Andrus and Phil Batt by signing a ground breaking cleanup agreement with the U.S. Department of Energy.  Like its predecessor agreements , signed by these two previous Idaho governors, this one implements... Posted Jul 05 2008, 04:54 PM by Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes Filed under: Idaho Cleanup Project, DOE

• DOE Cleanup program facing deep cuts in 2009

  Energy communities across the U.S. turn to Congress for relief A critical issue for the future of the Idaho National Laboratory ( INL ) nuclear energy mission is unfolding in an area where the incumbent site contract on the R&D side of the house has little control. The issue is that advocacy for new nuclear missions for the R&D program by the State of Idaho and its voters depends very much... Posted Mar 11 2008, 09:10 PM by Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes Filed under: Idaho National Laboratory, Rep. Mike Simpson, Idaho Cleanup Project