Sammy Fretwell, The State, Ausgust 10, 2018
https://www.thestate.com/news/local/environment/article216390230.html

HOPKINS, SC 
Pollution tied to infant deaths and cancer in adults has shown up for decades in the groundwater beneath a nuclear fuel factory less than two miles from Michael Daugherty’s house.

But the 41-year-old Daugherty, a lifelong Hopkins resident, never knew much about the Westinghouse plant, except that two of his cousins work there.

Now, in the aftermath of a recent uranium leak at the plant, Daugherty wants to know whether the factory he has driven by for decades is a threat to his community. He’s among multiple Lower Richland residents uneasy about the safety of the Westinghouse facility, an expansive plant that makes nuclear fuel rods for reactors that produce electricity.

“We’ve got well water here and that’s a concern because this stuff is in the ground,’’ he said. “That could contaminate our wells.’’