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Article: Oak Ridge nuclear waste plan hearing tonight.
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- Chattanooga Times/Free Press (Chattanooga, TN)
- Article date:
- February 13, 2007
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Byline: Pam Sohn
Feb. 13--A nuclear waste-recycling plan that could bring highly radioactive waste to Oak Ridge, Tenn., is not receiving a green light from everyone.
U.S. Rep. Zach Wamp, R-Tenn., says bringing such waste to Oak Ridge "is not my goal."
"We're really not aggressively going after it," said Rep. Wamp, who represents Oak Ridge and Chattanooga. "Once we modernized our facilities and moved away from the Manhattan Project era, we do not want waste. We do not want to process waste. We do not want waste coming in. We want waste leaving Oak Ridge."
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