[CPEO-MEF] RADIATION: NUMEC Shallow Land Disposal Area (PA)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Parks nuke dump site to be cleaned in one-foot layers

By Mary Ann Thomas
VALLEY NEWS DISPATCH (PA)
August 23, 2008

Although the Army Corps of Engineers is still working out the details 
for removal of 50,000 tons of radioactive debris from a dump along Route 
66, they will do so one foot at a time.

The nuclear burial grounds, technically known as the Shallow Land 
Disposal Area (SLDA), were established in the late 1950s as a dump for 
radioactive and toxic chemical waste from the Nuclear Materials and 
Equipment Corp., or NUMEC, with facilities in Apollo and Parks.

NUMEC worked with enriched uranium to produce fuel for nuclear 
submarines and power plants as well as nuclear materials, including 
plutonium, for classified government defense projects.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/s_584528.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>
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