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Michigan Landfill Suspends Receipt of Low-Level Radioactive Waste [1]

"A Van Buren Township hazardous-waste landfill operator, slated to receive up to 36 tons of low-level radioactive waste from a Pennsylvania fracking company, announced Monday that it will suspend receipt of such materials from all oil and gas operations pending a review by the state.

EQ, a USEcology company, made its determination as Gov. Rick Snyder announced plans to form a panel of experts to look at Michigan’s standards for disposing of low-level radioactive waste. EQ has accepted the waste — known as technologically enhanced, naturally occurring radioactive materials, or TENORM — from Michigan and other states at its Wayne Disposal landfill, located between Willow Run Airport and I-94 near Belleville."

Keith Matheny reports for the Detroit Free Press August 25, 2014. [2]

Nuclear Power & Radiation [3]
Waste [4]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [5]
Public [6]
Source: Detroit Free Press [2], 08/26/2014
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[1] https://www.sej.org/headlines/michigan-landfill-suspends-receipt-low-level-radioactive-waste [2] http://www.freep.com/article/20140825/NEWS06/308250180/Michigan-landfill-operator-suspends-receipt-low-level-radioactive-waste [3] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/nuclear-power/radiation [4] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/waste [5] https://www.sej.org/category/region/national/great-lakes [6] https://www.sej.org/taxonomy/term/81