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Cross-country rail shipments of the once-molten fuel and other highly radioactive rubble from the core of the damaged Three Mile Island nuclear reactor will begin this month. TMI’s operator and the Department of Energy said the waste will be shipped 2,300 miles through seven states on its way from Harrisburg, Pa., to the Idaho National Engineering Laboratory in Idaho Falls for research and storage, pending disposal.
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