After celebrating the final defeat of North Carolina’s 12-year effort to license an ill-conceived seven-state nuclear waste dump, NC WARN has been working with the NC Radiation Protection Commission to help craft state policy for the long-term management of “low-level” radioactive waste. The RPC was instructed to make a recommendation to the NC General Assembly in May of 2000. We’re happy to report that “No dump” is the recommendation — at least for now.
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Since the early 1990s, NC WARN has watch-dogged the state’s nuclear power industry over its “low-level” and high-level waste practices, along with reactor safety and security issues.
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Risks of Harris Waste Pools – Report for Orange Co. by Gordon Thompson
Institute for resource and Security Studies 27 Ellsworth Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA Phone: (617) 491-5177 Fax: (617) 491-6904 E-mail: irss@igc.org RISKS AND ALTERNATIVE OPTIONS ASSOCIATED WITH SPENT FUEL STORAGE AT THE SHEARON HARRIS NUCLEAR POWER PLANT Executive Summary of a February 1999 report prepared for Orange County, NC, by …