S.C. County Fights for Nuclear Landfill - AP

[Eugene]

S.C. County Fights for Nuclear Landfill

By SEANNA ADCOX
The Associated Press
Friday, March 2, 2007; 2:48 PM

SNELLING, S.C. -- In this rural county beset by high unemployment, the soon-to-arrive
day when the local nuclear-waste landfill closes its doors to nearly all debris is no
cause for celebration.

Chem-Nuclear, a disposal site for low-level radioactive waste from hospitals and power
plants around the nation, offers some of the county's few high-paying jobs, provides
roughly 10 percent of its overall budget and pumps $1 million a year into local schools.
It has also handed out college scholarships and bought equipment for police and
paramedics.

The landfill has long been under attack from environmentalists, and a 2000 state law
says that starting next year, it can accept waste only from South Carolina and two
other states. But now, as that date draws near, lawmakers are considering extending
the deadline to 2023.

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Nuclear power plant debris and radioactive hospital clothing have been buried here since
1971 atop aquifers that run to the Savannah River.

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Full article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/02/AR2007030200690.html

[youngdem]

1. Gotta put it somewhere, and SC is no place I'm ever gonna live, so if they want it, GREAT.

[brentspeak]

2. The power elite has screwed this nation so badly that people now WANT to have nuclear landfills

in their town because there's no other employment.

[mitchtv]

3. Perfect, I knew there was an alternative to

Yucca MT. Ship it all there to wait for the Xians who are going to move there, and make it a Xian colony. Hey, they want it there, so do I.