A crowd of at least 300 people broke into loud applause Tuesday night when residents called on Estill County’s top elected official to shut down a dump that state officials say accepted illegal radioactive waste from outside Kentucky for five months last year. Florida-based Advanced Disposal, which operates the landfill, “breached the community trust” not only by accepting the low-level nuclear waste from out-of-state oil and gas drilling operations, but also by accepting any waste at all from another state in violation of an agreement with Estill County, said Michael Wilson.
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