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This 2014 aerial photo provided by Idaho Environmental Coalition shows the U.S. Department of Energy's 890-square-mile Radioactive Waste Management Complex site in eastern Idaho. The complex includes the Accelerated Retrieval Project facilities in the foreground and the Advanced Mixed Waste Treatment Project in the background. U.S. officials say they have almost completed a roughly 20-year project to dig up and remove radioactive and hazardous waste buried for decades in unlined pits at a nuclear facility that sits atop a giant aquifer in Idaho Falls in eastern Idaho. (Idaho Environmental Coalition/U.S. Department of Energy via AP)

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US close to ending buried nuke waste cleanup at Idaho site
January 3, 2022 3 p.m.

US close to ending buried nuke waste cleanup at Idaho site

The cleanup project, started in 2005, is named the Accelerated Retrieval Project