nuclear waste
April 8, 2016 -
The U.S. announced a deal last week to move weapons-grade plutonium from Japan and ship it to the Savannah River Site on the South Carolina-Georgia border, where there are longstanding concerns about the environmental health risks that low-income and African-American communities disproportionately bear.
December 9, 2013 -
Bill Allain survived some of the nastiest attacks in Mississippi's political history to be elected governor in 1983. Labor South's Joe Atkins recalls an appearance by the devout Catholic at a Pentecostal gathering two years later.
July 30, 2007 -
To find the dirtiest power plants in the United States, head south.
July 26, 2007 -
Now that the cloak of secrecy has been removed, more information is coming out about problems at the Nuclear Fuel Services, Inc. facility in Erwin, Tennessee.
July 12, 2007 -
In a follow up on a incident we mentioned here back in May, Congress has directed the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to review a policy that withholds information about nuclear safety accidents from public view.
May 23, 2007 -
Sue's post regarding nuclear waste in the South suggests a clearer picture of the real purpose behind a proposed new interstate highway.
December 1, 1991 -
This article originally appeared in Southern Exposure Vol. 19 No. 4, "Government That Works." Find more from that issue here.