TDEC clamps down on public records as tons of radioactive waste heads to Tennessee
The state has stopped allowing citizens access to how much low-level radioactive waste is going into landfills, according to a report by Nashville investigative journalist Anita Wadhwani in The Tennessean. Wadhwani reports that this clamp down on data by the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation comes at the same time that waste processing companies in Tennessee "have filed notice that they plan to import 10,000 metric tons -- or more than 22 million pounds - of low-level nuclear waste from Canada for processing." It is not clear where that waste would go after processing. The newspaper reported that four Tennessee landfills are currently licensed to accept that type of [...]