The Nation - News from April 26, 1985
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The Energy Department announced that the Clinch River Breeder Reactor site in Tennessee is its “preferred”location for a $1-billion plant to process, package and temporarily store highly radioactive wastes. Two alternative sites are near the Oak Ridege reservation and at a canceled reactor site in Hartsville, Tenn. An estimated 10,000 metric tons of civilian radioactive wastes, now being stored under water in tanks at the naton’s 94 licensed atomic power plants would be taken to the Tennessee site.
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