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SAPL monitors cleanup efforts at almost two dozen toxic waste sites
at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, which has been designated as a
Superfund site. We are recognized by the Environmental Protection
Agency as the only citizen's group monitoring the cleanup
process. SAPL technical staff and volunteers review proposals for
short term mitigation and long term clean up, alerting the public
to potential health and safety issues.
We also monitor saftey-inspection reports on the Seabrook nuclear
power plant and keep the public informed about potentially dangerous
conditions there. Like other nuclear power plants in the nation,
Seabrook has become a defacto nuclear waste dump. Communities surrounding
these plants have long been promised that the U.S. Department of
Energy would establish a facility for the permanent disposal of
their waste; but this never has happened, and nuclear plants must
store the majority of their waste on site in large, water cooled
pools. Some of this extremely volatile waste will take hundreds
of thousands of years to decompose.
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