“What happens to the nuclear waste generated by the plant and to the radioactive equipment? Right now, it all stays right there on site. There is nowhere to take it.”
-Center for Health, Environment and Justice
Radioactive equipment is only a small part of each nuclear power plant, and in the past, it has been taken to Barnwell, South Carolina, or Hanford. Nuclear waste is only 3%-5% of the spent fuel stored on site, and in at least one case (Big Rock Point), the spent fuel was transferred to a nearby operating plant.
Filed under Anti-Nuclear Quote of the Day, Waste
Posted on December 28, 2006 by Stewart Peterson |
