Trump Administration Plans to Reclassify High-Level Radioactive Waste as Low-Risk
Jun 07, 2019
A bid to cut as much as $40 billion from cleanup costs
at nuclear weapons production sites
In a statement, the Natural Resources Defense Council said,
“The Trump administration is moving to fundamentally alter
more than 50 years of national consensus on how the most
toxic and radioactive waste in the world is managed and
ultimately disposed of.”
https://www.democracynow.org/2019/6...sify_high_level_radioactive_waste_as_low_risk
US can label nuke waste as less dangerous to quicken cleanup
NICHOLAS K. GERANIOS
Associated Press
June 05, 2019
The U.S. government on Wednesday will reclassify some of the nation's most dangerous radioactive waste to lower its threat level, outraging critics who say the move would make it cheaper and easier to walk away from cleaning up nuclear weapons production sites in Washington state, Idaho and South Carolina.
Critics said it's a way for federal officials to walk away from their obligation to properly clean up a massive quantity of radioactive waste left from nuclear weapons production dating to World War II and the Cold War.
The new rules would allow the Energy Department to eventually abandon storage tanks containing more than 100 million gallons (378 million liters) of radioactive waste in the three states, according to the Natural Resources Defense Council.
Tom Clements of Savannah River Site Watch, a watchdog group for the South Carolina nuclear production site, called the reclassification of waste "a cost-cutting measure designed to get thousands of high-level waste containers dumped off site." He said moving the waste to Utah or Texas is a bad idea involving "shallow burial."
https://www.bradenton.com/news/business/article231224783.html
Jun 07, 2019
A bid to cut as much as $40 billion from cleanup costs
at nuclear weapons production sites
In a statement, the Natural Resources Defense Council said,
“The Trump administration is moving to fundamentally alter
more than 50 years of national consensus on how the most
toxic and radioactive waste in the world is managed and
ultimately disposed of.”
https://www.democracynow.org/2019/6...sify_high_level_radioactive_waste_as_low_risk
US can label nuke waste as less dangerous to quicken cleanup
NICHOLAS K. GERANIOS
Associated Press
June 05, 2019
The U.S. government on Wednesday will reclassify some of the nation's most dangerous radioactive waste to lower its threat level, outraging critics who say the move would make it cheaper and easier to walk away from cleaning up nuclear weapons production sites in Washington state, Idaho and South Carolina.
Critics said it's a way for federal officials to walk away from their obligation to properly clean up a massive quantity of radioactive waste left from nuclear weapons production dating to World War II and the Cold War.
The new rules would allow the Energy Department to eventually abandon storage tanks containing more than 100 million gallons (378 million liters) of radioactive waste in the three states, according to the Natural Resources Defense Council.
Tom Clements of Savannah River Site Watch, a watchdog group for the South Carolina nuclear production site, called the reclassification of waste "a cost-cutting measure designed to get thousands of high-level waste containers dumped off site." He said moving the waste to Utah or Texas is a bad idea involving "shallow burial."
https://www.bradenton.com/news/business/article231224783.html
