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USA’s ‘Blue Ribbon Commission’ looking for answer to nuclear waste

President Barack Obama created the commission after his administration abandoned a proposed nuclear waste storage site in Nevada. The commission is supposed to make the first of its recommendations in the fall of 2011

Nuclear waste panel to visit Georgia site  | ajc.com, 26 Sept 10, The Atlanta Journal-ConstitutionA panel examining how the United States should store nuclear waste will visit Plant Vogtle in eastern Georgia and the Savannah River Site in South Carolina next year.

Retired Gen. Brent Scowcroft, a commission co-chairman, said panel members will arrange in January to visit Plant Vogtle near Waynesboro and the former bombmaking plant in neighboring South Carolina. Panel members will also visit a waste isolation plant in New Mexico.

President Barack Obama created the commission after his administration abandoned a proposed nuclear waste storage site in Nevada. The commission is supposed to make the first of its recommendations in the fall of 2011. Nuclear waste panel to visit Georgia site  | ajc.com

September 27, 2010 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | USA, wastes | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear costs, nuclear wastes