Word: storing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Charles Noe, manager of the Out of Town News Agency in Harvard Square, said his store sold about 150 copies of the paper this weekend, 100 more than usual...
...little more blunt. "If you've got a dump suddenly closed, you can have this stuff coming out of your ears before you know it," Coddington exclaims. "Things got caught in midstream," he added. "For a while there we couldn't ship it and we couldn't store it." But Harvard's labs and hospitals didn't slow down their research efforts. The University gritted its teeth, opened its wallet up wide and started to ship the radioactive waste out to Hanford, Washington. Days later, a committee of officials from all sectors of the University sat down to consider...
...Nevada are still taking low-level deposits. At Hanford, officials are already concerned, because containers not meant for more than five-year storage are being misused. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) officials are considering only one new low-level disposal site--the Lion, Kansas salt mines, once ruled unfit to store high-grade nuclear sludge. "We badly need more sites," says Timothy Johnson, associate professor of political science at MIT who assisted in a White House study of the radioactive waste problem. "Existing sites are going to fill up and the demand keeps increasing," Johnson frets. An inter-agency council established...
Disposing of wastes--from low-level radioactive liquids to chemical solids--plagues others besides Harvard, of course. From down river at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission in Washington, the problem of finding sites to store dangerous sludge is growing...
Parker L. Coddington, director of government relations, called the situation a "Catch 22." "For a while there," he explained, "we couldn't ship it, and we couldn't store...