With lifecycle campus plan, is Idaho getting ready to buy a nuclear waste pig in a poke?

By: Jim Jones

Outlets: Idaho Capital Sun

Published: August 25, 2026

Words: 914

Last Updated: 2 weeks, 5 days ago

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Editor’s note: This is the first in a series of three op-eds written by columnist Jim Jones that will discuss Idaho’s application to become the host of one of three Nuclear Lifecycle Innovation Campuses in the U.S. The second column will run Tuesday, and the third will run Wednesday.

Back in the early 1990s, Idaho’s former Attorney General and Lt. Gov., Dave Leroy, was a very lonely nuclear waste salesman.

During …

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