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Vt. and NY seek more review of nuke waste storage

Updated 5:25 am, Friday, January 4, 2013

Seattle PI

MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — Twenty-four anti-nuclear and environmental groups are joining the states of Vermont and New York in calling on the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to do a more thorough study of the impacts of storing spent nuclear fuel on the grounds of nuclear power plants.

The groups range from the Vermont-based New England Coalition to Washington-based Beyond Nuclear to California’s San Luis Obispo Mothers for Peace.

The groups want a more thorough look at risks of fire and leakage at the expanding dry cask storage sites for highly radioactive nuclear waste at reactors around the country.

They want a moratorium on licensing and relicensing of reactors until the risks are resolved.

http://www.seattlepi.com/news/science/article/Vt-and-NY-seek-more-review-of-nuke-waste-storage-4164996.php#ixzz2HEFsv4aK

January 6, 2013 - Posted by arclight2011 | Uncategorized