Four decades after radiation leaked from a landfill for nuclear waste near Barnwell, unsafe levels of radioactive pollution continue to contaminate groundwater near the site, as well as a creek that flows toward the Savannah River. Now, after 13 years of legal battles between the landfill's operator and environmentalists, the S.C. upreme Court is considering whether to force changes that would make the site less likely to leak radioactive contaminants, landfill critics say.
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