Critics Warn DOE Plan To Redefine Nuclear Waste Could Undercut Cleanups

February 22, 2019
States, environmentalists and other critics say that the Energy Department's (DOE) plan to revise its definition of high-level radioactive waste (HLW) is unlawful and would allow the department to bypass cleanup mandates at major contaminated sites, though local officials are welcoming the plan, saying it will lower disposal costs and speed cleanups. DOE outlined its plan in an Oct. 10 Federal Register notice that sought to reinterpret the statutory term HLW as set forth in the 1954 Atomic Energy...


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