Missing Vermont fuel rods could be in South Carolina

[kayell]

http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/news/local/8498175.htm

COLUMBIA, S.C. - If an investigation shows missing nuclear waste from a New England power plant ended up in a low-level South Carolina landfill, it wouldn't be the first time such as mistake has happened.

Federal investigators are looking into the disappearance of two missing pieces of a highly radioactive fuel rod from the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant.

The plant operators reported the missing pieces Wednesday, saying they were not where they were supposed to be in the large pool used to store fuel rods.

If federal authorities can't find the material at the Vermont plant, they say it could have been mistakenly shipped to the Chem-Nuclear Systems low-level nuclear waste dump in Barnwell County.

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[flamingpie2500]

1. It's amazing they didn't plant them in Iraq!

[MercutioATC]

2. See? It's GOOD to have reactor waste in lots of little piles with

almost no oversight. DAMN those eco-terrorists who want a central repository for spent nuclear fuel!