CP&L, Local Governments Battle Over Nuclear Waste
(05/02/01 4:00am)
Local activists and officials say not until their concerns about the expansion at an area nuclear plant are answered to their satisfaction.
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Local activists and officials say not until their concerns about the expansion at an area nuclear plant are answered to their satisfaction.
Pat Greenwell, a Flying Club board member, and her passenger, Richard Binkley, also a club member, made an emergency landing at the end of the runway after the engine of the single-engine plane Greenwell was flying stopped. The plane landed on UNC property, making it fall under University jurisdiction.
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Robert Houston Davenport III, 18, turned himself in to police Monday. Davenport, who lives at 609 Morrison Residence Hall, is being charged with one count of felony rioting. He has been released from police custody in lieu of a $15,000 unsecured bond.
The full five-member commission ordered Wednesday that Carolina Power & Light Co. could not begin storing nuclear waste at its Shearon Harris Nuclear Power Plant until the commission's staff answers a list of undisclosed questions.
Sen. John Edwards, D-N.C., and Rep. David Price, D-N.C., sent a letter to the NRC on Friday, questioning the Dec. 21 ruling. The decision came while the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board, a division of the NRC, is still debating whether additional storage at CP&L's Shearon Harris Nuclear Power Plant poses any environmental safety risks.
When Ken Broun first bought his home in the Mason Farm area, he never thought that 26 years later he'd be fighting to preserve his neighborhood.