Savannah River Site Watch – South Carolina Chapter of the Sierra Club – League of Women Voters of South Carolina
Public Interest, Conservation Groups Oppose Effort by New Company to Consolidate Commercial Spent Nuclear Fuel from South Carolina Reactors at Location Near the Savannah River Site
News Release – September 27, 2016
Columbia, SC – Public interest and conservation groups in South Carolina have joined together to voice opposition to a fledgling, unprecedented proposal to consolidate highly radioactive spent fuel from in-state nuclear reactors at a single location near the Savannah River Site.
The groups have become aware of an effort by a newly incorporated company called Spent Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing Group (SFR Group) to pursue licensing of spent fuel storage at the S.C. Advanced Technology Park on the eastern boundary of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Savannah River Site. The site is where the old, never-operated Barnwell reprocessing plant is located.
The groups contend that moving spent fuel within the state to a single non-reactor site is unnecessary, would do nothing to solve the nation’s long-term spent fuel disposal problem, would pose worker exposure risks and would present a risk of the radioactive material being left for an indefinite period of time at the site of consolidation.
full release linked here – see pertinent documents linked in “notes” section