LANDFILL BARS NUKE WASTE
Thursday, January 14th, 2010The Boeing Company will have to find somewhere else to dispose of nuclear waste from its Santa Susana Field Lab in Los Angeles.
Waste Management Inc. (NYSE: WMI) says it will not take the waste at its Kettleman Hills landfill in the Central Valley, “because of the uncertainty and community concerns about levels of radioactive constituents in these materials.”
In a letter to the California Environmental Protection Agency, Robert Henry, Waste Management’s senior district manager, says, “Waste Management’s Kettleman Hills Facility has voluntarily decided not to accept solid or hazardous wastes from any portion of the Santa Susana Field Lab.”
Located in once-remote Simi Valley, the Santa Susana Field Lab has been in operation since the 1940s and is the site of the nation’s first power-producing nuclear reactor, long since idled.