Nuclear Waste Removed from Sequoyah County Site in Oklahoma

摘要

A semitrailer quietly left the former Sequoyah Fuels Corp. site near Gore this week, hauling away the last of 511 loads of nuclear waste that has plagued Sequoyah County and its citizens for decades. The Cherokee Nation and Oklahoma attorney general's office worked for 18 months to ensure the off-site disposal of 10,000 tons of radioactive material were removed from the Sequoyah Fuels site, according to a news release from the Cherokee Nation. The waste was transported to a disposal site in Utah, where the uranium will be recycled and reused, leaving the area near the Arkansas River free of this nuclear waste for the first time in nearly 50 years.