[CPEO-MEF] RADIATION, GLOBAL: Nuclear waste shipments to Savannah River Site (SC) opposed

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Environmental group opposes nuclear waste shipments to SRS

By Meg Mirshak
Augusta Chronicle
December 10, 2013

An environmental group wants more transparency on potential shipments  
of high-level nuclear waste from Canada and Germany to Savannah River  
Site, saying the U.S. Department of Energy has not given enough  
information to taxpayers and advisory boards.

New materials being considered for disposal would be moved from the  
Juelich facility in Germany to SRS, where they would be processed at  
the South Carolina site’s H Canyon facilities, said Tom Clements, the  
southeastern nuclear campaign coordinator for Friends of the Earth.

No decision has been made on the German waste, said Maxcine Maxted, a  
used nuclear fuel program manager for the Department of Energy at  
SRS. The Savannah River National Laboratory at SRS has conducted  
research this year on the waste, and results will be considered when  
making a decision, Maxted said at a Tuesday meeting of the nuclear  
materials committee of the Savannah River Site Citizens Advisory Board.

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For the entire article, see
http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/metro/2013-12-10/environmental- 
group-opposes-nuclear-waste-shipments-srs


See also
http://www.aikenstandard.com/article/20131210/AIK0101/131219935/1004/ 
nuclear-materials-committee-shares-concerns-with-doe

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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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