Tennessee Awaits Tons Of German Nuclear Waste via NPR

July 22, 2011 from WUOTThe city of Oak Ridge, Tenn., is anticipating the arrival of nearly 1,000 tons of nuclear waste from Germany. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission approved a plan in June for an American company to import and burn low-level nuclear waste from Germany.

Radioactive residue left over from the process will be sent back to Germany for disposal, but opponents have voiced concerns that the U.S. will become the world’s radioactive waste processor.

But, very little of that opposition is coming from Oak Ridge.

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