Don't Waste South Carolina

From California to Asia and beyond, communities are facing an unprecedented onslaught of proposals from waste treatment companies and entrepreneurs promoting a new generation of incineration technologies. Not since the waste industry tried to site hundreds of hazardous and solid waste incinerators in the United States in the late 1980’s and early 1990’s has there been such an intense effort to site new waste treatment facilities.

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Susan Corbett, Sierra Club of SC, 803-755-6929
Allison Peeler, Carolina Peace Resource Center, 864-357-8965
Leslie Minerd, HIPWAZEE, 803-799-9297

New Maps from Common Sense Campaign Reveal
Another Cost of New Nuclear Power: Southbound Mobile Chernobyl

Part of a study by John Sticpewich entitled "A Study of the Problems With Transport and Reprocessing of Nuclear Waste in the Carolinas," the maps were generated using Department of Energy (DOE) data and the on-line DOE routing program, TRAGIS. "Credit analysts on Wall Street have suggested that moving the accumulated high-level waste from the reactor sites would make investment in new nuclear power more likely," said Sticpewich. "This report documents the huge tonnage of radioactive waste that must be dealt with, the very high costs of transporting it, and the potential for impact that such a move would have on hundreds of communities along the way." John Sticpewich did this work on behalf of the Common Sense at the Nuclear Crossroads Campaign based in Asheville, NC. The maps and more information are available at Maps of Waste Routes.

Longtime activist uses political skills to keep issues on legislative agendas

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For Ann Timberlake, a recent campaign to close a nuclear waste dump in South Carolina was like preserving the Congaree Swamp three decades ago.

Acccording to a report in the Tri-City Herald , shipping waste from contaminated building at Hanford may be coming to Savannah River Site,

According to reporter, Annette Cary,

The liquid waste facility is the last of the highly contaminated buildings that DOE plans to take down for several years. Hanford officials are hoping that they'll receive approval to start shipping weapons-grade plutonium now stored at the Plutonium Finishing Plant to an off-site location, likely at the Savannah River, S.C., site. That will take two or three years, then several years of cleaning out buildings is planned.

 Hanford Building Set for Demolition