(December 3, 1993) Two years ago, the Yankee Rowe nuclear plant in the state of Massachusetts was shut down under public pressure and the plant's owners began preparations for dismantling even before the approval of a decommissioning plan.
(403.3929) WISE Amsterdam - The demolition has begun with the shipment of the plant's steam generators to the national "low-level" radioactive waste dump in Barnwell, South Carolina. Opponents who had worked hard to shut the plant down are now equally opposed to the "hot" operations involved in dismantling and shipping large components down the east coast of the US.
About 60 protesters carrying caskets and radiation monitors greeted the truck hauling the generators to a train and then followed the train by bus toward its destination. Protestors with meters detected radiation levels 200 times background at a distance of 3 meters from the truck.
Source: Nuclear Monitor, 22 Nov. 1993
Contact: Citizen Action Network, P. O. Box 242, Charlemont MA 01339, tel. +1 (413) 339-8768..