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

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Corporation to pull nuclear waste, leave chemicals

By Mary Ann Thomas
VALLEY NEWS DISPATCH (PA)
December 17, 2007

Although the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has announced final plans to 
remove more than 50,000 tons of radioactive contamination from a former 
nuclear waste dump site on Route 66, there is no plan to deal with 
chemical pollutants, including heavy metals and dangerous chemical 
compounds, also at the site.

The nuclear burial grounds, known as the Shallow Land Disposal Area, or 
SLDA, were established in the late 1950s as a dump for nuclear and 
chemical waste from the Nuclear Materials and Equipment Corp., (NUMEC0 
and its successors, the Atlantic Richfield Company (ARCO) and Babcock & 
Wilcox (BWXT) with facilities in Apollo and Parks.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/cityregion/s_543160.html

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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>
http://www.cpeo.org



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