[CPEO-IRF] New DU plan at Jefferson Proving Ground

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Army has new plan for JPG exit

Peggy Vlerebome
Madison Courier (IN)
June 21, 2005


The U.S. Army has proposed a new idea for extricating itself from 
Jefferson Proving Ground, asking federal regulators to let it 
decommission its depleted-uranium license in five years. Unlike the most 
recent previous Army plan, the new one would not have the Army 
continuing to monitor the environment for five years at a time for an 
indefinite period.

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission staff has accepted for technical 
review the Army’s proposal for how it would go about getting ready to 
decommission its license to use DU at the proving ground, where 
munitions containing radioactive depleted uranium were tested for 10 
years beginning in 1983. The Army had to obtain a license from the NRC 
in order to use depleted uranium at JPG.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.madisoncourier.com/main.asp?SectionID=4&SubSectionID=253&ArticleID=24529

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
http://www.cpeo.org


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