Feds to Ship Radioactive Waste Out of South Carolina after Years of Dispute

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The U.S. Department of Energy, after years of legal disputes with South Carolina officials, says it will haul away tons of deadly atomic material it had shipped to the Palmetto State for use in a nuclear fuel factory that was never built. In a public notice late last week, the Energy Department said it plans to send 7.1 metric tons of weapons-grade plutonium from the Savannah River Site nuclear complex near Aiken to a disposal ground in rural New Mexico.