Nuclear waste panel tours southeast atomic site
ATLANTA — The head of Southern Co.'s nuclear wing is urging a national panel charged with recommending ways to dispose of highly radioactive waste to bury it in the Nevada mountains, while local environmental groups said that waste should stay put until a final solution is found.
Six commissioners and co-chairman Brent Scowcroft of the Blue Ribbon Commission on America's Nuclear Future began a two-day trip to the Southeast on Thursday with a visit to a former nuclear weapons complex near Aiken, S.C. It comes amid deep uncertainty over how the United States should dispose of nuclear waste.
While President Barack Obama supports more nuclear power to meet the country's energy needs, his administration pulled its support from a plan to store radioactive waste in a ridge of volcanic rock called Yucca Mountain in Nevada.
"The wavering federal commitment has created a crisis in confidence in the federal government's ability to solve the problem," James Miller III, CEO of the Southern Nuclear Operating Co., said in prepared testimony. The Southern Co. and its partners are trying to win permission to break ground on the first nuclear plant in a generation at Plant Vogtle near Waynesboro.
The itinerary of Scowcroft's delegation shows the dilemmas created by radioactive waste in the southeast: On Thursday, the commissioners toured the 310-square-mile Savannah River Site, which once produced the plutonium and tritium for nuclear bombs during the Cold War.
Federal officials have agreed to clean and close underground tanks holding 37 million gallons of waste, but they don't have a final resting place for it. Scowcroft has repeatedly said his commission will not pick a repository site.
South Carolina and Washington state, which has the nation's most contaminated nuclear site, has sued to keep the Obama administration from abandoning Yucca Mountain.
Environmental watchdog groups in the southeast are warning the panel against reproces
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