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September 9, 2014

Feds want waste train design ideas

  • No one knows where the nation's radioactive waste will be taken yet, but DOE wants proposals for developing trains to carry it.

    • ATLANTA (AP) — The U.S. government is looking for trains to haul radioactive waste from nuclear power plants to disposal sites. Too bad those trains have nowhere to go.

    Putting the cart before the horse, the U.S. Department of Energy recently asked companies for ideas on how the government should get the rail cars needed to haul 150-ton casks filled with used, radioactive nuclear fuel.


     
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