Word: disposall
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South Carolina Gov. Richard W. Riley yesterday urged Congress to mandate that states producing low-level nuclear waste assume responsibility for its disposal.
Riley, who is chairman of the State Planning Council (a group appointed by President Carter to study waste-disposal issues) spoke before a Kennedy School of Government seminar on "Nuclear Wastes and the States."
Kiley's state houses the Chem Nuclear Corporation's low-level waste disposal site, which until recently received more than 80 per cent of all solid waste produced in the United States.
South Carolina will reduce the amount of low-level wastes entering the state for burial at the Chem Nuclear site "to force other states to take their share of responsibility in wastes disposal," Riley said.
The repair work, which Met-Ed officials estimate will cost nearly $400 million, is already several months behind schedule. The recovery crews have removed and decontaminated about a quarter of the 425,000 gal. of radioactive water that spilled into one of Unit 2's auxiliary buildings. Construction workers...