New Jersey Set to Secure South Carolina Disposal Site for Nuclear Waste.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News)

From: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News | Date: April 18, 2000| Author: | Copyright information

Apr. 18--New Jersey's tortured search to find a final resting place for truckloads of radioactive rubbish will soon end where it began more than a decade ago -- at a disposal site in rural South Carolina.

The saga of where to put low-level radioactive waste once saw a commission offer $100 million over 50 years to any New Jersey town willing to host a low-level radioactive waste disposal facility -- only to have everyone turn it down.

Then the commission gave up the ghost after 13 fruitless years and voted itself out of office -- only to have Gov. Christie Whitman veto ...

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