IDAHO FALLS, Idaho (AP) — Officials at the Idaho National Laboratory in southeast Idaho say it's possible a court-ordered deadline at the end of this month to ship nuclear waste out of the state will be missed.

Facility officials say steel drums filled with low-level radioactive waste are piling up because an underground nuclear waste repository in southern New Mexico is not taking shipments due to recent mishaps.

The Post Register reports (http://www.postregister.com/node/70094) that Brad Bugger of the U.S. Department of Energy says it's not clear when nuclear waste from the Idaho facility will start being shipped again to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant.

A 1995 settlement agreement between Idaho and federal authorities sets deadlines for when radioactive waste must leave Idaho.

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