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Small nuclear reactors are now the answer.

Now that it is a decommissioned site turned museum, geeks can unite and gawk inside the place where the nuclear-powered era began.

IDAHO FALLS, Idaho (AP) — The director of the Idaho National Laboratory says it's problematic whether a small quantity of spent nuclear fuel needed for research will be allowed into Idaho this spring.

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Federal officials say a small-scale version of a key component of an eastern Idaho radioactive waste treatment facility that has so far failed to operate will be tested in Colorado.

CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — Gov. Brian Sandoval says he'll continue to oppose the creation of a high-level nuclear waste dump at Yucca Mountain northwest of Las Vegas regardless of whether President elect-Donald Trump decides to back idea.

IDAHO FALLS, Idaho (AP) — A Utah energy cooperative has selected a site to build a small commercial nuclear reactor in eastern Idaho.

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A federal judge has ordered the U.S. Department of Energy to make available to the court documents sought by former Idaho Gov. Cecil Andrus involving nuclear waste shipments to eastern Idaho.

IDAHO FALLS, Idaho (AP) — A cleanup contractor says three Idaho workers involved in a radiological incident at a U.S. Department of Energy site earlier this year did not receive internal exposure.

IDAHO FALLS, Idaho (AP) — Scientists from around the country are meeting in Idaho Falls this week to discuss technical problems plaguing a nuclear waste treatment plant there.

IDAHO FALLS, Idaho (AP) — The U.S. Department of Energy has awarded the next five-year nuclear cleanup contract for a site in the Idaho desert.

IDAHO FALLS, Idaho (AP) — The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is investigating a recent incident at a plant that manufactures radioactive products in Idaho Falls.

IDAHO FALLS, Idaho (AP) — Two government lab researchers are in the process of licensing technology that could improve disposing of and tracking radioactive waste.