[CPEO-MEF] RADIATION: Barnwel (SC) radwaste dump

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

[The Barnwell dump has received military radwaste, including disabled  
military vehicles from the Persian Gulf wars. - LS]

Rising radiation at SC nuclear dump prompts cleanup talk but no action

By SAMMY FRETWELL
The State (NC)
December 16, 2012

COLUMBIA, SC — Radioactive pollution is getting worse on parts of  
South Carolina’s nuclear-waste dump near Barnwell, but state  
regulators say cleaning up the contaminated groundwater isn’t in  
their plan.

Tritium continues to exceed federal safe drinking-water standards in  
and around the 41-year-old burial ground that has come to symbolize  
South Carolina’s historic willingness to accept the nation’s garbage.  
In some spots tritium levels are higher today than they were five  
years ago.

But the S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control says the  
site is stable overall and no one is drinking the polluted water. So  
for now, the agency has no plan for a tritium cleanup. The dump’s  
operator, Energy Solutions, agrees.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.thestate.com/2012/12/16/2557919/rising-radiation-at-sc- 
nuclear.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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