[CPEO-MEF] Savannah River Site (SC) radwaste burial

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Nuclear waste burial plan at SRS under scrutiny
Reported leak prompts calls for more analysis of potential dangers

By SAMMY FRETWELL
The State (Columbia, SC)
October 22, 2006


The U.S. Department of Energy wants to dump more potent nuclear waste in 
a Savannah River Site burial ground than the agency had proposed.

But a reported leak from the burial site is prompting calls for more 
analysis before the waste is buried at the federal nuclear weapons 
complex near Aiken.

“What’s the hurry?” asked Leslie Minerd, who tracks nuclear issues for 
Environmentalists Inc., a Columbia activist group. “They should study 
this plan more thoroughly.”

The Savannah River Site lies above a water table that could be 
contaminated by leaks of atomic waste for thousands of years, said Geoff 
Fettus, a lawyer with the Natural Resources Defense Council in Washington.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/15817872.htm

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
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