Funds sought for cleanup at UA nuclear reactor test site
December 24, 2017
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (AP) — Cleanup at a nuclear reactor test site built in the late 1960s began this year after three decades of waiting. Thousands of pounds of low-level radioactive waste have since been trucked away from rural Washington County to specialized waste facilities outside the state.
Now the University of Arkansas-Fayetteville, the site owner, faces the possibility of another delay as it awaits news of federal funding to finish the cleanup of the Southwest Experimental Fast Oxide Reactor, often referred to as SEFOR.
"We need $10.1 million dollars in FY 18 appropriations," said Mike...
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