European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 22, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Other states have not set up their own disposals. There cannot be anything like business a usual Sci  1. 1986." he Lold a  Corinna Tioel. We will take whatever action in necessary to close the site to Hall Access to South Carolina As a National dumping ground " the biggest producers cd nuclear waste due to the proximity of nuclear Power plants Are new York. Massachusetts Illinois South Carolina and Pennsylvania California produces 5 percent to 8 percent of the nation s Low level waste 200,000 cubic feet of material annually. Only 10 percent of it is from nuclear Power and the rest from Medicine and research. But the state has yet to join a compact although it has been trying to form one with Arizona. Seven compacts have been formed but none has yet received congressional approval. Texas has decided to handle its own wastes but has not selected a site and says it wants a Federal guarantee that it won t have to accept material from outside its Borders. . Ecology inc., of Louisville ky., which operates the existing Nevada and Washingion Sites charges an average of $ 1.43 per mile to transport waste. The operator of the South Carolina site chem nuclear. Bases its fees on a Complex formula. Costs Lor storage at the Sites Range from $17.85 to $102 per cubic foot depending on the amount of radioactivity present. Allen Pasternak of the California radioactive materials management forum Cal Rad said surcharges next year alone could add another $10 per cubic foot. I be talked to radiation safety officers in hospitals and they Are concerned on How this will Impact their operations he said. Ultimately this Cost will be reflected in patient  in California efforts to establish a disposal site Are bogged Down by court action. Nobody really want a waste disposal site in their backyard said or. David Price n Cal Rad expert. It becomes a political  the conservationist Sierra club is actively promoting above ground buildings instead of landfills for storing most Low level waste. It wants the longer half life material shipped from nuclear Power plants re classified for eventual disposal with High level wastes in deep underground caverns. We see this As the key to unlocking the whole Low level radiation waste problem said Marvin of Resnikoff. Co director of the club s radioactive waste Effort. Under present Law. Radionuclide of irom re actor waste go into the disposal facilities that waste contains to  Grid Ceiiwn-137. Vilh full liver of 5 and 37 years respectively. Using 10 Hall lives As Tho time it takes Tor material to decay to non hazardous Levels nuclear reactor waste alone could a be a 300-Ypnr storage problem Tho phrase Low level should to in the waste is not dangerous a club spokesman said. In net. Low level waste can Range irom slightly contaminated clothing and test tubes to highly radioactive sludge from nuclear reactors. Low level is practically everything that is not the irradiated nuclear fuel  re Nikoll said above ground storage of Low level waste would allow for easy removal of material that had disintegrated to a harmless slate. It also would avoid the problem of ground leakage due to rainfall that forced three commercial Low level dumps to close in new York. Kentucky and Illinois. Associated press unburied radioactive material sin in barrels in Ciu dad Juarez Mexico. There in t a radioactive Landfill in any area with 30 to 40 inches of rainfall a year Tinl has t leaked said Resnikoff landfills a a lot Liv