WASTE FACILITIES BANNED

                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: TUESDAY, January 12, 1993                   TAG: 9301120320
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B-4   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: PAUL DELLINGER
DATELINE: BLAND                                LENGTH: Short
WASTE FACILITIES BANNED
The Bland County Board of Supervisors voted 4-0 Monday night to ban any kind of nuclear waste storage facilities in the county.
The unanimous adoption of the ordinance followed what was billed as an educational session about the proposed facility.
A Bluefield State College mechanical engineering professor found near-unanimous opposition Monday night to his support for such a facility in the county.
"Some people seem to think I'm bringing a plague upon this area," John Sage said of storing spent nuclear fuel rods in this area. He said people should look at radioactivity as "just another natural phenomenon we have to deal with."
More than 100 people turned out for the meeting.
"Since 1987 this project has gone looking for a home," said Lou Zeller of the Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League.
No localities want it, he said. And any money that a locality would make off the project would be spent on cleaning it up.
"If you take it, you're going to be stuck with it," agreed Clinch Valley College Professor David Rouse, "because no one knows what to do with it."

by Bhavesh Jinadra by CNB