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Fri Jan 16, 2015, 02:56 AM Jan 2015

Former Idaho governors blast Otter's nuclear waste deal

Source: KTVB

Two former Idaho governors are furious and say their work keeping nuclear waste out of Idaho could be erased by a recent deal backed by Gov. Butch Otter.

Cecil Andrus and Phil Batt were so upset over the recent deal with the Department of Energy that they held a press conference Thursday morning.

They say the deal goes against an agreement made back in 1995, concerning spent nuclear waste at the Idaho National Laboratory.

"It's a travesty as to what has taken place under their watch," said Andrus.

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Read more: http://www.ktvb.com/story/news/2015/01/15/nuclear-waste-deal-blasted/21818321/

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