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NIMBY / YIMBY

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NIMBY / YIMBY

No One Wants Backyard Nuclear Dump By ERNIE GATES Low-level radioactive waste includes tools, rags, clothing and other items con- taminated by radiation in nuclear power plants; casks of contaminated water, steel. alloy plates and other items bombarded by radiation in nuclear research; syringes used in radioactive medication; even the rats and beagles used to test the effects of radiation on animals. It doesn't glow in the dark and it isn't as dangerous as spent nuclear fuel or other See 500-Acre, Page A5 Staff Reporter Some call it the Nimby Syndrome. That's Nimby, as in "Not-in-my-back- yard." which is where everybody wants to put a Virginia dumping grounds for low level nuclear waste. Nuclear waste disposal sites in some states are slowly closing their doors to ship- ments from outside their borders, so Vir- ginia and most other states are faced with a need to set up their own dumps The alternative is to shut down nuclear power plants, stop nuclear research and call a halt to nuclear medicine. As director of the state Solid Waste Commission, Susan Dull has been a victim of the Nimby syndrome in conducting public workshops on the need for a nuclear trash dump in Virginia. "A lot of people just hear 'nuclear' and think of something that glows in the dark. Ms. Dull said.
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NIMBY / YIMBY

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