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Written by Mike Ewall
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Friday, 06 April 2007 |
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Since passage of the Low-Level Radioactive Waste Policy Act of 1980, there were plans to build around 13 new "low-level" nuclear waste dumps in the U.S. -- one in each groups of states that formed into compacts." Of the nation's six "low-level" nuke dumps (most of which is for waste from nuclear reactors, even though they pretend it's mostly for medical waste), all of them have leaked and three were still open at the time (the ones in SC, NV and WA).
To relieve these states, they were to be allowed to discontinue taking waste by 1986, but as grassroots efforts stop every new nuke dump proposal planned under the compact system, the deadlines for closing Barnwell, South Carolina's dump kept slipping back, with the help of their state legislature (and pressure from the nuclear utilities).
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Written by Mary Kelly
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Wednesday, 21 March 2007 |
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The news that Duratek, the operator of the
Chem Nuclear low level radioactive waste site in Barnwell County
has been sold to Energy Solutions Inc., headquartered in Utah, once
again raises the periodic issue of site closure. Will the site, now
host site for the Atlantic Compact, really shut out all states
except compact members Connecticut and New Jersey on the designated
date of 2008 or will forces in favor of staying open prevail as
they have at least three times in the past? This is an issue the
members of the next General Assembly and the next Governor will
have to face.
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