"LOW-LEVEL" WASTE

Judge says nuclear dump can keep permit - Barnwell, NC

An environmental group plans to appeal a judge's ruling allowing a company to keep its permit to run a low-level radioactive waste dump in Barnwell County.

State studies radioactivity questions

Review, which cites Orange County Register questions about Irvine site, should be done in several months.

TRACY TO SPONSOR BAN ON RADIOACTIVE DUMPING

State Sen. Jim Tracy (R-16th) will introduce a bill to ban radioactive and nuclear dumping in Tennessee. The legislation comes on the heels of disclosure that radioactive waste is currently being dumped at Middle Point Landfill in Murfreesboro.

Radioactive Dumping Occurs In Rutherford County - 10 Million Pounds Of Radioactive Material Dumped In 2005

Tennessee has been allowing companies from all over the country to dump radioactive waste into ordinary trash landfills, including the Middle Point landfill in Rutherford County. More than 10 million pounds of radioactive material was dumped in Murfreesboro in a single year.

Nation's nuclear waste storage industry in a jam - and Utah in the spotlight

The nuclear waste industry is preoccupied with one big question these days: What to do with trainloads of low-level nuclear waste that soon won't have anywhere to go.

S.C. Nuclear-Waste Landfill Is Closing

Starting next summer, many power plants, hospitals, universities and companies in 36 states will be forced to store low-level radioactive waste on their own property because a South Carolina landfill is closing its doors to them. The states have known for years that this day would come. But because of political opposition, environmental fears and cost concerns, most of them have done almost nothing to construct new landfills in the meantime.

Ohio, Michigan running out of ways to store their radioactive waste - But closing of S.C. landfill isn't sounding alarms yet

Michigan and Ohio are among 36 states that will have a greater buildup of radioactive waste after July 1 if a South Carolina landfill follows through with its plans to start turning them away.

Radioactive waste dump causes concern 30 years after radiation leak

This year marks the 30th anniversary of the closing of a radioactive waste dump in Bureau county. But in those three decades, concern over the dump has not gone away. The facility opened in 1967 just three miles outside the small town of Sheffield, Illinois. In 1978, the state shut it down after radioactive material leaked from the site.

GAO Report - LOW-LEVEL RADIOACTIVE WASTE - Status of Disposal Availability in the United States and Other Countries

Disposal of radioactive material continues to be highly controversial. To address part of the disposal problem, in 1980, Congress made the states responsible for disposing of most low-level radioactive waste (LLRW), and allowed them to form regional compacts and to restrict access to disposal facilities from noncompact states. LLRW is an inevitable by-product of nuclear power generation and includes debris and contaminated soils from the decommissioning and cleanup of nuclear facilities, as well as metal and other material exposed to radioactivity. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) ranks LLRW according to hazard exposure—classes A, B, C, and greater-than-class C (GTCC). The states are responsible for the first three classes, and the Department of Energy (DOE) is responsible for GTCC. Three facilities dispose of the nation’s LLRW—in Utah, South Carolina, and Washington State. The testimony addresses (1) LLRW management in the United States and (2) LLRW management in other countries. It is substantially based on two GAO reports: a June 2004 report (GAO-04-604) and a March 2007, report (GAO-07-221) that examined these issues. To prepare this testimony, GAO relied on data from the two reports and updated information on current capacity for LLRW and access to disposal facilities.