Nonprofit Alliance Wins Bid to Operate Idaho Nuclear-Energy Lab

The Energy Department has spurned the University of Chicago in its bid to operate a new nuclear-energy laboratory in Idaho in favor of a nonprofit organization.

The new Idaho National Laboratory will be formed by merging Argonne National Laboratory-West, which has been managed by the University of Chicago since 1946, and the Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory, operated since 1999 by Bechtel National Inc., BWX Technologies Inc., and a consortium of eight

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