Re: LLW status according to AP: a fair story

[Tad Blanchard <Tad.M.Blanchard.1@GSFC.NASA.GOV>]

When the Press calls it a "dump" instead of a "repository" they'll never
get one built.  When you associate the word "dump" and "radioactive
material" in the same article it is definitely a turn-off.
 

At 08:13 AM 7/15/97 -0500, you wrote:
>Nothing to show for millions spent toward nuclear waste disposal
>
>The Associated Press
>
>RALEIGH, N.C. (July 5, 1997 12:38 p.m. EDT) -- It's the same story
>everywhere -- regional compacts Congress created 17 years ago to bury
>low-level radioactive waste have spent hundreds of millions of dollars
>with virtually nothing to show.
>
>Not one of the 10 multi-state compacts has opened a new dump in that
>time. And none of the five states that opted to go it alone plans to
>build one.
><<SNIP>>
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