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Last Stand on Prairie Island
Wasserman, Harvey | March 7, 1994 issue

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Like dozens of other older reactors around the country, Prairie Island is running out of storage space for its intensely radioactive spent fuel rods. For years the federal government has promised the commercial industry it would find a final resting place for this deadly offal. But it has failed miserably, and is currently considering just one permanent repository-at Yucca Mountain, near the Nevada Weapons Test Site. But last fall the Minnesota Supreme court upheld a state law requiring legislative approval for any permanent high-level radioactive waste dump.

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RADIOACTIVE substances; NUCLEAR reactors; FEDERAL court decisions; RADIOACTIVE wastes; FEDERAL legislation; NUCLEAR engineering
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