Radioactive waste removal program in South Carolina failing

From: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel | Date: March 21, 2004| Author: MATTHEW L. WALD | Copyright information

Radioactive waste removal program in South Carolina failing, group says

By MATTHEW L. WALD New York Times

Sunday, March 21, 2004

Washington -- A multibillion-dollar program to deal with millions of gallons of highly radioactive waste at a nuclear weapons plant in South Carolina is failing because technicians cannot get the waste out of the tanks where it has been stored for the last half-century, an influential environmental group says.

The failure raises the likeli...

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