How to Handle Radioactive Waste Becomes an Election Issue in South Carolina

摘要

What to do with radioactive waste has become central to politics in South Carolina, where gubernatorial candidates try to one-up each other over what to do with debris that has long sat at the Savannah River Site near Aiken.rnRepublican gubernatorial candidate Nikki Haley, for instance, recently asserted that the federal government needs to keep its promise and move nuclear waste being stored in South Carolina to the Yucca Mountain repository being built in Nevada's desert, even though the repository's construction is on indefinite hold.