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Re-siting nuclear
![FILE - In this April 9, 2019, file photo, provided by Los Alamos National Laboratory, barrels of radioactive waste are loaded for transport to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, marking the first transuranic waste loading operations in five years at the Radioactive Assay Nondestructive Testing (RANT) facility in Los Alamos, N.M. On Thursday, Dec. 8, 2022, New Mexico officials outlined new conditions for a proposed permit for the U.S. government to continue disposing of nuclear waste in the southeast corner of the state as part of a multibillion-dollar federal cleanup program. (Nestor Trujillo/Los Alamos National Laboratory via AP, File)](https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/fea494e/2147483647/strip/true/crop/3000x2116+0+0/resize/880x621!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Ff3%2Fb7%2Fe641914b4dc0be791182e987a604%2Fap22342807814663.jpg)
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