Nuclear waste dump sites are in short supply across the US. I suspect real-estate developers are eager to clean up South Carolina and care less about the Nevada dessert.
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South Carolina nuclear landfill closing. Starting next summer, many power plants, hospitals, universities and companies in 36 states will be forced to store low-level radioactive waste, because a South Carolina landfill is closing its doors to them. At issue is the Barnwell County dump site, a 235-acre expanse that opened in 1971. The equivalent of more than 40 tractor-trailers full of radioactive trash from 39 states was buried there each year before South Carolina lawmakers in 2000 ordered it to scale back, because they no longer wanted the state to be a national dumping ground. As of July 1, the landfill will take waste only from South Carolina and the two states with which it formed a partnership, New Jersey and Connecticut.
Source: November 2, The Associated Press
http://www.statesman.com/news/content/news/stories/nation/11/02/1102nuclearwaste.html
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Huh …. I can’t believe we formed a partnership with Yankees!
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