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FILE - In this May 11, 2015, file photo, nuclear waste is stored in underground containers at the Idaho National Laboratory near Idaho Falls, Idaho. Scientists say radioactive and chemical contamination in a giant aquifer below an eastern Idaho federal nuclear facility has decreased or remained constant in recent years. A report released earlier this year by the U.S. Geological Survey attributes the decreases to radioactive decay, changes in waste-disposal methods, cleanup efforts and dilution from water coming into the Lake Erie-sized Eastern Snake Plain Aquifer. The contamination originated at an 890-square-mile (2305-square-kilometer) U.S. Department of Energy site that includes the Idaho National Laboratory, considered the nation’s leading nuclear research lab. (AP Photo/Keith Ridler, File)

Radioactive waste cleanup paying off for giant Idaho aquifer

By KEITH RIDLER - Associated Press

In this July 2013, photo United States Geological Survey scientist Roy Bartholomay, standing, and Flint Hall, with Idaho Department of Environmental Quality, collect a water sample from the Eastern Snake Plain Aquifer at a U.S. Department of Energy nuclear site in eastern Idaho. Scientists said the giant aquifer below an eastern Idaho federal nuclear facility is as free of radioactive contamination and other pollutants as it has been in more than six decades of monitoring but that the water level is at the lowest level ever recorded. (Brian Twining/USGS via AP)

US: Nuke site cleanup efforts paying off for Idaho aquifer

By KEITH RIDLER - Associated Press