(The Associated Press circulated the following story on October 10.)
CLEVELAND — A radioactive reactor from a closed nuclear power plant in Michigan will be transported by rail through Ohio en route to a disposal site in South Carolina.
Details are not being revealed for security reasons but the shipment is likely to be made next week.
Consumers Energy of Jackson, Mich., is shipping the reactor from the utility’s Big Rock Point Nuclear Power Plant near Charlevoix, Mich., to Barnwell, S.C.lina.
Spokesman Tim Petrosky says the radioactivity is low and the public will not be at risk.
But environmentalists are concerned. Chris Trepal of the Cleveland-based Earth Day Coalition calls the situation “pretty scary.”
Trepal outlined three possible routes across Ohio:
From Toledo to Athens via Fostoria, Lodi, Canton, Coshocton and Zanesville; from Toledo to Cincinnati via Lima and Dayton; or from Toledo to Portsmouth, via Marion, Columbus and Chillicothe.