Dive Brief:

• The Savannah River Site oversight committee, appointed by the federal government, is questioning an environmental assessment created for shipments of German nuclear waste. The panel is seeking a more detailed report as the current documents don't cover a number of potential risks.
• Savannah River National Laboratory scientists created technology to dispose of the uranium waste, which would be shipped across the Atlantic to Charleston, SC.
• Since there isn't a facility in the U.S. that stores vitrified nuclear waste, the panel wants to hear potential implications to the community from the storage of these hazardous materials.

Dive Insight:

The Department of Energy doesn't want the waste to fall into terrorist hands, indicating the reason behind the uranium's possible transport into the states. The board wants to assess risks within the community, in order to be as certain as it can that the community will not be prone to outside attacks.