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Tons of nuclear waste piling up at power plants | MiamiHerald.com

Tons of nuclear waste piling up at power plants
Miami Herald 21 Oct 08 The unrelenting nuclear headache in the United States is how to dispose of radioactive waste. For 25 years, the federal government has considered putting it at Yucca Mountain in Nevada. That has led to bitter opposition from environmentalists, those close to the proposed dump and even some nuclear experts……………….Until this point, all nuclear plants have had to keep their waste on site, piling up at the rate of 20 tons per reactor per year. ”Basically, nothing has moved,” says Mitchell Singer of the Nuclear Research Institute.

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October 21, 2008 - Posted by | wastes

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