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Microcap & Penny Stocks : Green Oasis Environmental, Inc. (GRNO) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Charles A. King who wrote (9199)	4/20/1998 5:58:00 PM
From: Charles A. King	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13091

The following is from a Sierra Club page dealing mostly with low level nuclear waste, but it mentions our old friend. Note that nobody has ever objected to the GRNO operation at its present location. ++++++++++++ Radioactive Ring-Around-the-Collar Oh yeah, one more thing they forgot to tell us about nuclear energy was what to do about that nasty radioactive ring-around-the-collar. Residents of a primarily low-income, African-American neighborhood in Columbia, S.C., have joined forces with the Sierra Club to say "No more!" to radioactive lint and other dangers emanating from the nuclear laundry facility next door. The Interstate Nuclear Services (INC) facility, which received its first permit to begin operations here in the 1970s, launders radiation-contaminated clothing, trucked through narrow city streets from nuclear utilities. The wastewater from cleaning the clothing is filtered on-site, with the filter cakes sent to a nearby nuclear landfill, and the water sent to the Columbia wastewater treatment plant. The lint collected from drying the clothing is similarly disposed of, but residents who live so close to the plant that they can touch its walls from their backyards say they sometimes find lint floating into their yards from the INS dryers. Worse, the facility is scheduled to begin receiving clothing containing higher, more dangerous levels of radioactive contamination -- including plutonium and uranium 235 -- from the Savannah River Site federal defense facility. The INS facility recently won a renewal license from the South Carolina Department of Health & Environmental Control, but not before scores of residents turned out to voice their objections at a public hearing. The local residents and the Sierra Club have now formalized their protest by filing an administrative challenge to the issuance of the license. Charles