Waste Transportation
The transportation of radioactive waste already occurs, but will become frequent on our rails, roads and waterways, should irradiated reactor fuel be moved to interim or permanent dump sites.
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As reported by WLOS, ABC News Channel 13 in Western North Carolina.
(Includes interview with Beyond Nuclear, a co-plaintiff in the lawsuit that sought to prevent the shipments. Attorneys Terry Lodge of Toledo, and Diane Curran of Washington, D.C., serve as the environmental coalition's legal counsel.)
Press release by environmental coalition, including Beyond Nuclear, re: a U.S. federal judge's adverse ruling (see below), allowing unprecedented, high-risk, highly radioactive liquid waste truck shipments from Chalk River Nuclear Lab, Ontario, Canada to Savannah River Site, South Carolina, U.S.A.
See United States District Judge Tanya S. Chutkan's 18-page Memorandum Opinion, and her 1-page Order of Dismissal, both published on Feb. 2, 2017.
February 3, 2017