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Fate of state's nuclear waste rests on outcome of Senate debate
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Fate of state's nuclear waste rests on outcome of Senate debate
By MARK JOHNSON of the Journal Sentinel staff
Tuesday, July 9, 2002
Some 2.6 million pounds of spent nuclear fuel are currently stored
in Wisconsin -- most at the Kewaunee and Point Beach nuclear power
plants. Some sit in vast "used fuel pools," bodies of water the size
of an Olympic swimming pool and about 40 feet deep. Some of the spent
nuclear fuel also resides in 14 dry storage containers outside the
Point...
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