Full Environmental Review Recommended for Plutonium Disposal Plan at WIPP

By Dan Leone

The Department of Energy should consider performing a lengthy environmental review of its plan to dispose of 34 metric tons of surplus weapon-usable plutonium by burying the material deep underground, a congressionally chartered panel said Friday. The department’s…

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