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

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Shallow Land Disposal Area nuclear waste dump cleanup to start in summer

By Mary Ann Thomas
VALLEY NEWS DISPATCH (PA)
January 4, 2010

After making plans for more than 20 years, the first ton of radioactive 
dirt will be removed from the nuclear waste dump in Parks this summer 
for the much anticipated 3-year, $76 million cleanup by the Army Corps 
of Engineers.

The removal of 50,000 tons of nuclear-contaminated soil at what is 
officially known as the Shallow Land Disposal Area is the last vestige 
of the nuclear legacy from two former nuclear fuel plants in Apollo and 
Parks that operated from 1957 to mid-1980s. The plants, owned by the 
Nuclear Materials and Equipment Corp. (NUMEC) and later the Atlantic 
Richfield Co. and Babcock & Wilcox (B&W), produced nuclear fuel for 
submarines and power plants as well as a range of nuclear products for 
the U.S. government and others.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/regional/s_660595.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
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