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Time is running out for Massachusetts' producers of low-level radioactive waste...
With just over three months left to enter an interstate pact setting up a regional waste storage facility. Bay State the agreement. Use of the regional disposal site will become crucial in 1986 when the three states that now the nation's low-level nuclear waste will be allowed to exclude the waste from their borders--an option they are expected to exercise...
...Massachusetts does not come up with an alternative arrangement by the 1986 deadline, the state's low-level radioactive waste producers primarily hospitals, research institutions and nuclear power plants will have to shut down their processes that produce the waste...
Tracers and other fluids used in a variety of instruments in medical research and treatment constitute low-level waste. Also, protective clothing worn by workers in commercial plants falls into this category...
...theory has yet to be put into practice. Although the U.S. has three sites-Hanford, Wash., Beatty, Nev., and Barnwell, S.C. -for the disposal of such low-level wastes as contaminated clothing and the radioactive materials used by hospitals, it does not have a permanent repository capable of handling spent fuel rods. Attempts to create such a facility at Hanford were halted when the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the U.S. Geological Survey, the State of Washington and the Yakima Indians all joined together to object because of uncertainties about underground water movement...