Sandy Mush
Payne’s Chapel makes donation
Payne’s Chapel in Leicester is a small church with a big heart. Tey
are located on the corner of Big Sandy Mush and Sandy Mush Creek Road with a congregation of about 35. Te youth at Payne’s Chapel Church in Leicester collected $900 that went to the Leicester Fire Department’s toy program. Tis was the second year that the youth made the donation. “Tey take up a change offering every Sunday that goes to the
fire departments toy program,” said Sue Hudgins, a member of the church. “It is a great help for the toy program. We really appreciate their
support and the opportunity it provides for us to help children who may not always have Christmas,” said Chief Ted Williams of the Le- icester Fire Department.
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Rural community favorable for nuclear dump site?
By Clint Parker Nuclear power plants are a
conundrum. They produce the energy that everyone wants, while also producing radioac- tive waste that nobody wants. Last week the Leader’s front
page story caused a little stir with the residents of Sandy Mush about talk of a nuclear dump in the Sandy Mush area. While it was reported that at the time there was no proof of such a site coming to the area, it didn’t keep area residents from reacting to the possibility. Some residents of the area be-
lieve that they have the proof even though there’s not a list of possible nuclear dump sites with Sandy Mush on it. Sandy Mush resident Tom
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Coulson was one of the area res- idents who attended the recent hearing held by the president’s Blue Ribbon Panel to explore the future of nuclear power in America in Augusta, Ga. The panel is searching on what to do with nuclear waste. “It was disquieting,” Coul-
son said of the meeting. He believes the proposed recycling of nuclear waste at the Savan- nah River Nuclear Plant would bring much of the nuclear waste headed to the plant through Western North Carolina. He also believes Sandy Mush is “back under consideration as a storage site.” Coulson said Mary Olson,
the Nuclear Information and Research Service director for the Southeast region, told him of Sandy Mush’s inclusion on a list. The Nuclear Information
and Research Service website states it was “founded to be the national information and networking center for citizens and environmental activists concerned about nuclear power, radioactive waste, radiation and sustainable energy issues.” Olson said Sandy Mush was
not on any list. “It was off,” she said. However, Olson goes on to explain, “It’s a little more complicated than there’s a list. There isn’t a list.” Olson says that Sandy Mush
meets the criteria set forth in the Crystalline Granite Reposi- tory Program from the 1980s as one of the top two sites on the East Coast for a permanent nu-
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clear waste site and since Yucca Mountain in New Mexico has been abandoned by the Obama Administration, she believes that the Western North Caro- lina community is back in the running as a possible location. “That means we don’t have
a nuclear waste dump,” Olson states, “Meantime, all the nu- clear power plants in the coun- try are churning out this waste and it’s piling up and they don’t want to keep it and they want it to go somewhere.” Blue Ribbon Panel’s Co-
Chair Brent Scowcroft told WJBF television station in Au- gusta, Ga., where the group re- cently met, that the panel was not a site commission when he said, “Let me make it clear, we are not a site commission. We are looking at how you deal with the problem and how you determine sites.” Scowcroft was a former Na-
tional Security Advisor Gen- eral (For a complete list of the panel’s objectives and scope see sidebar). Olson says that while the
panel does not select a site, she believes that the members will make a recommendation that while a permanent site is being found, a storage site in the same region should also be found and at least reserve the possibility to recycle the fuel. “There are very few sites east
of the Mississippi River where you could do reprocessing and they happen to be volunteering at that site (Savannah River) in South Carolina saying we want to do it. Now that alone makes Sandy Mush, of all the differ- ent granite sites, suddenly pop out.” Olson said that the study done
back in the 1980s located 13 possible granite sites and Sandy Mush was one of the top two. Olson sees the highway im-
provements in the area as signs something is coming. She also points to President Obama’s trip to Asheville as a possible scout- ing trip. She sees the president as very pro-nuclear energy, and last year’s trip could have given him an opportunity to see the area for himself.
Objectives and scope of panel
According to the Blue Ribbon
Panel on America’s Nuclear Fu- ture’s charter the objections and scope of the panel are as follows:
• Evaluation of existing fuel cycle technologies and R&D programs. Criteria for evalu- ation should include cost, safety, resource utilization and sustainability, and the promotion of nuclear non- proliferation and counter- terrorism goals. • Options for safe storage of used nuclear fuel while final disposition pathways are se- lected and deployed; • Options for permanent disposal of used fuel and/ or high-level nuclear waste, including deep geological disposal; • Options to make legal and commercial arrangements
for the management of used nuclear fuel and nuclear waste in a manner that takes the current and potential full fuel cycles into account; • Options for decision-making processes for management and disposal that are flexible, adaptive, and responsive; • Options to ensure that de- cisions on management of used nuclear fuel and nuclear waste are open and transparent, with broad par- ticipation; • Te possible need for addi- tional legislation or amend- ments to existing laws, in- cluding the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982, as amended; and • Any such additional matters as the Secretary determines to be appropriate for consid- eration.
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