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Radioactive Plume in South Carolina Leaking into Savannah River

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(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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AP1000 Design for New Vogtle Reactors a Problem for Georgia Power

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  (APN) ATLANTA – The AP1000 Oversight Group, the North Carolina Waste Awareness and Reduction Network (NC WARN), and Friends of the Earth filed a petition November 10, 2011, to require the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to resolve design issues on the Westinghouse-Toshiba AP 1000 prior to certification. Proposed new reactors for two sites in the US South rely […]

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