Carter unveils a plan for nuclear waste
In rural Cattaraugus County, 40 miles south of Buffalo, the West Valley nuclear reprocessing plant has been shut down since 1973, when the Getty Oil Co. ceased operations there. Meanwhile, the radioactive waste created by the plant is buried in landfill trenches. Some of the poisonous garbage periodically leaks into Cattaraugus Creek, which feeds into Lake Erie, the source of water for Buffalo and surrounding communities.
In France, a reprocessing plant at Cap de la Hague, near Cherbourg, stores its nuclear waste in giant steel tanks. But...
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