Click Image to EnlargeNuclear Sites Fear They're The Alternative To Yucca Mountain -- McClatchy News
WASHINGTON — It is among the nastiest substances on earth: more than 14,000 tons of highly radioactive waste left over from the building of the nation's nuclear weapons arsenal.
As the Obama administration and Senate leaders move to scuttle a proposed repository for the waste in Nevada, the Hanford nuclear reservation in Washington state — along with federal facilities in Idaho and South Carolina — could become the de facto dump sites for years to come.
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My Comment: Politics getting in the way of common sense. Everyone knows that this material needs to be put somewhere, but everyone is now undergoing the "not in my backyard" syndrome.
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