[CPEO-MEF] Nuclear Materials and Equipment Co. (PA)

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Army Corps to remove radioactive soil from nuclear site
Wednesday,

By Don Hopey
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (PA)
December 12, 2007

Five years after its initial assessment of a former nuclear waste dump 
in Armstrong County, the Army Corps of Engineers has decided to pursue a 
$53 million plan to excavate and remove soil from the 40-acre site along 
the Kiskiminetas River.

Based on the decision announced by the corps yesterday, a contractor 
will dig out an estimated 40,000 cubic yards of radioactive waste 
material and soil from the property known as the "Shallow Land Disposal 
Area." It is a former disposal site for the Nuclear Materials and 
Equipment Co., or NUMEC, in Parks, 32 miles northeast of Pittsburgh.

The soil will be taken to a radioactive dump site in Clive, Utah.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07346/840938-54.stm

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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