Posted on Dec 10, 2016
U.S. to build $1.6B Idaho facility for warships' nuclear waste
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BOISE, Idaho — The Navy and U.S. Department of Energy have announced that they'll build a $1.65 billion facility at a nuclear site in eastern Idaho that will handle fuel waste from the nation's fleet of nuclear-powered warships.
Officials on Tuesday said the new facility is needed at keeping nuclear-powered aircraft carriers and submarines deployed.
The facility will be built at the Energy Department's 890-square-mile site that includes the Idaho National Laboratory, considered the nation's primary lab for nuclear research.
The decision concludes a lengthy environmental process that also looked at continuing using outdated facilities or overhauling them.
Officials say the new facility will operate through at least 2060 and can handle a new type of spent-fuel shipping container used by the latest warships.
Officials on Tuesday said the new facility is needed at keeping nuclear-powered aircraft carriers and submarines deployed.
The facility will be built at the Energy Department's 890-square-mile site that includes the Idaho National Laboratory, considered the nation's primary lab for nuclear research.
The decision concludes a lengthy environmental process that also looked at continuing using outdated facilities or overhauling them.
Officials say the new facility will operate through at least 2060 and can handle a new type of spent-fuel shipping container used by the latest warships.
U.S. to build $1.6B Idaho facility for warships' nuclear waste
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About Frigging Time. The Oops at Hanford Nuclear Waste Treatment Facility are becoming way to frequent and it's age is showing.
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Figure out if it’d be financially possible for Eastern berthed ships to deploy west to Wash. State and meet with transport vehicles to off-load to transport to the storage facility.
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That is interesting that after all the battle about Yucca Mountain, the U.S. Navy and U.S. Department of Energy have announced that they'll build a $1.65 billion facility at a nuclear site in eastern Idaho that will handle fuel waste from the nation's fleet of nuclear-powered warships SFC Joe S. Davis Jr., MSM, DSL.
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