A radioactive plume is reportedly traveling in the groundwater towards the Savannah River .
SOUTH CAROLINA (INTELLIHUB) — The South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) recently confirmed that a plume of radioactive Tritium is moving off the Barnwell Low-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal Facility, in Barnwell, South Carolina.
This is the first public announcement on this topic, but many environmentalists claim that this has been going on for years.
“The plume started moving off the Barnwell site years ago. In fact, they dug up the adjacent church because there was contamination of soil and groundwater and that was ten years ago. Just like every other low-level nuclear waste site in this country, they have all leaked,” Susan Corbett, Chair South Carolina Sierra Club, told Atlanta Progressive News.
“All these [nuclear] dump sites leak. We are only looking at one isotope, I think there will be lots of other stuff coming after the tritium,” Tom Clements, Southeast Nuclear Campaign Coordinators for Friends of the Earth, told APN.
“I sent a message to DHEC asking for data on other radioactive isotopes that may be leaking. They are only reporting tritium, but other things are soluble in water. I want to know what else is leaking from the dump. They [DHEC] have not communicated that,” Clements said.
“Tritium has historically been leaking from the site probably since they first started using it over thirty years ago. I’ve seen photos of boxes with waste and other material just sitting in water in the bottom of trenches where they dumped it. The leak has been there for a long time,” Clements said.
A Radioactive plume in South Carolina is leaking into the Savannah River
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Jan 19, 2014
A radioactive plume is reportedly traveling in the groundwater towards the Savannah River .
SOUTH CAROLINA (INTELLIHUB) — The South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) recently confirmed that a plume of radioactive Tritium is moving off the Barnwell Low-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal Facility, in Barnwell, South Carolina.
This is the first public announcement on this topic, but many environmentalists claim that this has been going on for years.
“The plume started moving off the Barnwell site years ago. In fact, they dug up the adjacent church because there was contamination of soil and groundwater and that was ten years ago. Just like every other low-level nuclear waste site in this country, they have all leaked,” Susan Corbett, Chair South Carolina Sierra Club, told Atlanta Progressive News.
“All these [nuclear] dump sites leak. We are only looking at one isotope, I think there will be lots of other stuff coming after the tritium,” Tom Clements, Southeast Nuclear Campaign Coordinators for Friends of the Earth, told APN.
“I sent a message to DHEC asking for data on other radioactive isotopes that may be leaking. They are only reporting tritium, but other things are soluble in water. I want to know what else is leaking from the dump. They [DHEC] have not communicated that,” Clements said.
“Tritium has historically been leaking from the site probably since they first started using it over thirty years ago. I’ve seen photos of boxes with waste and other material just sitting in water in the bottom of trenches where they dumped it. The leak has been there for a long time,” Clements said.
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