A Little Chunk of SRS for Economic Development?
A resilient concept to carve a small piece out of the vast Savannah River Site for industrial development appears to be coming back to life, especially in economically lagging Barnwell and Allendale counties. It would also be a boon to the more prosperous Aiken County and surely to their close neighbors across the Savannah River in Georgia. In 1951 the Federal Government carved 310 square miles out of the three South Carolina counties to build the next generation of nuclear weapons isotopes to keep up in the Cold War with