Category Archives: South Carolina

Savannah River Site Becoming World’s Nuclear Dumping Ground, despite Safety Risks

(APN) ATLANTA — The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is close to finalizing plans to accept highly radioactive commercial spent nuclear fuel from Germany to be deposited at the Savannah River Site (SRS) in South Carolina, according to news reports that were buried deeper than the plutonium itself.     However, it is not only Germany that is sending, or […]

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(IPS) Moral Mondays Spread to Georgia, South Carolina

This article first appeared on the Inter-Press Service website: http://www.ipsnews.net/2014/02/moral-mondays-protests-inspire-truthful-tuesdays/ SPOKANE, Washington, Feb 3 2014 (IPS) — Moral Monday, the populist movement in North Carolina that saw a diverse coalition of thousands of progressive activists descend upon the state legislature, is now spreading throughout the U.S. South. “I think it’s a sign the body politic is healthy in the U.S. […]

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Savannah River Oversight Board Seeks Monitoring for Radiation

(APN) ATLANTA — On January 27, 2014 the Savannah River Site Citizen’s Advisory Board (SRS CAB) voted overwhelmingly to approve an official recommendation urging the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) to help Georgia fund an environmental radiation monitoring program.     The recommendation, which requires an official response from the DOE, asks the DOE to initiate conversations about the monitoring […]

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Radioactive Plume in South Carolina Leaking into Savannah River

(APN) ATLANTA — The South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) confirmed to the South Carolina Governor’s Nuclear Advisory Council recently that a plume of radioactive Tritium is moving off the Barnwell Low-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal Facility, in Barnwell, South Carolina.       The plume is traveling in the groundwater southwest toward the Savannah River Site.   […]

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