Waste Not, Store Not

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Our favorite "clean" energy source:

http://www.loe.org/shows/segments.htm?programID=07-P13-00045&segmentID=1

Waste Not, Store Not

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GELLERMAN: It's interesting that most of the country, or most of the attention to radioactive waste has been focused on Yucca Mountain and high-level waste—the fuel rods themselves—and yet it could be low-level waste that proves to be very problematic for the nuclear industry.

ADCOX: Yeah. There are those who fear that those small sources can be made into—not nuclear bombs, certainly, but dirty bombs—that they get enough of the little stuff together and it could spread radioactivity.

GELLERMAN: Have you been to the Barnwell County dumpsite?

ADCOX: I have. I went earlier this year.

GELLERMAN: Do you think it's safe? And the reason I ask that is because since they're going to have less customers; they're going to be making less money. Will they have the funds to maintain the safety and security of this site?

ADCOX: They won't, actually. They just had a meeting a couple of weeks ago to figure out how to make sure the site can break even instead of making a profit for the state, which it has been doing. And also remember that SRS, which is Savannah River Site, which takes up about a third of Barnwell County, is very much right next-door.

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http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/575/story/246189.html

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Leventis is one of three state officials criticizing the state Department of Health and Environmental Control for not releasing records about pollution levels at a nuclear waste landfill in Barnwell County.

State Rep. Ted Vick, D-Chesterfield, said the agency should have been more forthcoming about pollution leaks at the site. Both Vick and Leventis plan to suggest changes at DHEC when the Legislature convenes in January.

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1. WIPP=Waste Isolation Pilot Plant

http://www.wipp.energy.gov/index.htm