Effort begins to move nuclear waste from retired La Crosse reactor
GENOA — A 64-wheel beast of a truck creeped along at just under 1 mph hauling a cask of radioactive waste from a long-dormant power plant to a concrete pad between Highway 35 and the Mississippi River. It was the first of a series of trips it will make this summer in one of the final chapters of the Coulee Region's atomic era.

A quarter century after Dairyland Power Cooperative shut down its La Crosse Boiling Water Reactor, the spent fuel remains. Starting last week and continuing through the summer, workers are transferring the radioactive waste into dry cask storage in a move designed to save the company millions in annual costs.

It's a massive undertaking, more than five years in the planning, and the numbers are staggering.
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