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U.S. Department of Energy officials have released an environmental study for the Versatile Test Reactor, a proposed nuclear test reactor to be built in eastern Idaho that backers say is needed to revamp the nation’s fading nuclear power industry by developing safer fuel and power plants. It would be the first new test reactor built in the U.S. in decades.
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The Idaho National Lab is monitoring 16 of its workers who were exposed to Plutonium 239. That isotope is used in nuclear weapons.The incident happened…
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A new facility at the Idaho National Laboratory would test the effects of radiation on the materials that could be used to build future nuclear reactors.…