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Idaho’s Nuclear Crossroads | Boise News
Idaho’s poised to become the nation’s nuclear waste storage hub — a $10 billion economic siren song that could reshape its future — but at what cost? The U.S. Department of Energy’s “Nuclear Lifecycle Innovation Campus” proposal offers jobs and investment, yet hinges on Idaho accepting a massive burden of high-level nuclear waste. While other states compete, Idaho’s leadership is quietly rewriting its own rules — ditching past agreements that barred new waste, streamlining approvals, and even embracing deep borehole storage — all to seize the economic windfall. But this gamble echoes a…
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