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Work to dig up and remove radioactive and hazardous waste buried for decades in unlined pits at a nuclear facility that sits atop a giant aquifer in eastern Idaho has been completed, federal officials said. The U.S. Department of Energy on Wednesday held a celebration to mark the completion of removing specifically-targeted buried waste from ...

ARCO – The U.S. Department of Energy and the Idaho Cleanup Project are celebrating the completion of a high-priority exhumation effort dating back to 2005. For the last 17 years, workers with the Idaho Cleanup Project have been working to exhume 5.69 acres of transuranic waste materials at the Radioactive Waste Management Complex near Arco. […]