| Show A14 The Salt Lake Tribune Workers Don't Like Where Axidrus Draws Waste Line THE ASSOCIATED PRESS - Streeper has watched the work force handling radioactive waste at the Idaho National Engineering Laboratory's Test Area North shrink by more than since 1988 He and others blame Gov Cecil Andrus who is in a running legal and public relations battle with the US Department of Energy over its storage of waste at the nuclear ressprawling ervation ATOMIC CITY Idaho — Nuclear waste at the Idaho National Engineering Laboratory includes more than 4 million cubic feet of two-thir- t " plutonium-contaminate- material and almost 327 tons of spent reactor fuel Here is a breakdown of types of waste at the INEL their status and how they're stored: Test Area North stores and monitors spent fuel from commercial reactors in huge concrete or steel casks being tested on an outdoor concrete pad It also stores about 330000 pounds of debris from the melted mangled core of the Three Mile Island nuclear of stainless plant in steel tubes sunk in pools of water The waste has been studied for ways to improve reactor safety Movement to outdoor storage casks is expected to start in 1994 and take about four years The Radioactive Waste Management Complex stores about 2 million cubic feet of transuranic waste mostly from the Rocky Flats nuclear weapons plant in Colorado Thousands of steel barrels and plywood boxes are stacked beneath a white fabric igloo 150 feet wide and longer than two football fields A smaller igloo covers transuranic waste in buried barrels More are beearthen neath a plastic-lineberm In all the complex has 129000 barrels and 11000 boxes of transuranic waste The INEL employs almost : 1 3 000 including thousands of scientists engineers and technicians who manage monitor research and reprocess hundreds of tons of radioactive waste and spent fuel Most live about 40 miles east in Idaho Falls a city of 44000 where the choice between a popular governor in his final term and a facility that's been the area's economic backbone for 40 years is no choice at all "It looks to me like Andrus doesn't have many friends on this side of the state" said Streeper an operations manager for Energy Idaho Inc "It wouldn't hurt my feelings !any to see him out of office" The former Carter administration Interior secretary is scheduled to meet Wednesday in Boise with Deputy Energy Secretary Henson Moore and members of ' Idaho's congressional delegation to discuss the INEL's future The meeting comes more than I three years after Andrus first 'blocked shipments to Idaho of plu- d D "I'm thrilled to stand in my shoes Entering an appearance in the Lincoln case is amazing " —Candida Steel of the Union general who defended Samuel Mudd Va well-know- "transura-!nic- " APOLLO A panel of the Army Board for Correction of Military Records will hold the hearing in Crystal City Va just south of the Pentagon Their recommendation will be sent to the secretary of the Army Michael PW Stone "The board begins with the presumption that the records are correct as they currently exist" said Maj Rick Thomas an Army spokesman "Each applicant has the burden of showing that an error or injustice exists and that it would be in the interest of justice to change it" five-memb- er n 50 J f £ i OFF INSTALLATION Garage Storage UtilityLaundry : - 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Mudd's nephew said the time had come to right a wrong to correct the history books "It has been a matter of shame extremely devastating to the family generations after the conviction" said Richard J Mudd 50 a Washington lawyer who lives in Alexandria NEWSSERVICE KNIGHT-RIDDE- They were riding for their lives Down a lonely country lane in pitch dark two frightened men spurred their horses on putting miles between them and an army of pursuers of reined front in physician Samup They uel A Mudd's farmhouse near Bryantown Md at 4:30 am and one of them dismounted and pounded on the door Mudd asked who was there and an excited man jabbered on about an accident His companion had fallen from a horse on their way to Washington The doctor looked out and saw a figure on horseback a man wincing in pain his left leg badly swollen He treated the injury and let the men stay over and by 5 pm they were gone But those hours would change Mudd's life forever They would send him to prison and besmirch the family name so that it became an epithet "Your name is Mudd" For on that morning of April 15 1865 knowingly or unknowingly Mudd helped John Wilkes Booth the assassin of President Abraham Lincoln Now 127 years later the doctor's grandson physician Richard D Mudd hopes to clear his ancestor's name and restore the Identifies Contents THE ASSOCIATED Sunday January 19 1992 127 Years After Lincoln Died Mudds Seek to Clear Family Name Site Nuclear-Wast- e ATOMIC CITY Idaho — Kevin NATIONWORLD ETC I I Fine Arts Every Sunday in The Salt Lake Tribune "Put a little SaitLaks 268-644- 9 clans in your closet" I Orem 221-082- 6 1 8 I Of SS Finest Quality at Affordable Prices jgg Jjg ty 1 Andrus contends the Energy Department too often has broken 'promises to move the waste to still ' unopened permanent repositories in New Mexico and Nevada With I more than 4 million cubic feet of transuranic waste and almost 327 tons of highly radioactive spent fuel at the site he says Idaho al-- ! ready is doing more than its share But the agency sees the INEL 1 about the size of Rhode Island and tucked away near the base of the Lemhi and Lost River ' mountain ranges as a true spot for storing and studying ways to better manage waste while I searching for permanent dumps After all various installations at ' the INEL have been storing nucle- ar garbage from all over the coun- try for decades Much of it is dan- gerously radioactive and has no place else to go ' Radioactive waste at the INEL includes: Debris from the failed Three Mile Island reactor Millions of cubic feet of trans- ' uranic waste More than 668000 cubic feet cf separately buried waste Almost 2 million gallons of liquid waste from fuel reprocessing ' Nearly 127000 cubic feet of granular material from "calcining" of liquid waste More than 653000 pounds of spent fuel from research and commercial reactors including almost 224000 pounds from Fort St Vrain With no facilities to reprocess it l and no permanent waste repository available Fort St Vrain fuel shipped to the INEL since 1980 remains indefinitely in a building at the Idaho Chemical Processing Plant designed specifically to hold it for 30 years Public Service Co cf Colorado which owns Fort St Vrain wants to ship another 440000 pounds of spent fuel to Idaho as it prepares to decommission the reactor 1&XZ fit PV Gardner Historic Villag Sale Clearance anuary Has 7 Great Ways to Save! 1 Archibald's Restaurant two-thir- IB tried-and- The Energy Department agreed to reprocess the spent rod3 in 1965 when high-temperatu- re gas-coole- d plants like Fort St Vrain were considered the wave of the future But the technology never took off in the United States and the INEL never added equipment to reprocess its type of fuel So with spent rods piling'up and no use for them in sight Andrus said last February he'd had Special savings on Rugs f Book "roue widdino Parties u? to 60 rxoFLz! 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