Editorial opposes nuclear waste plan

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

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Nuclear waste/Best plan: No dregs left behind

Minneapolis Star Tribune
Editorial
June 1, 2004


When the U.S. Senate reconvenes today, one of the first issues it is to
address is a significant change in the way this nation handles its worst
nuclear waste. Senators should not hesitate to reject this ill-advised move.

The waste in question is the mostly liquid byproduct of plutonium
processing at U.S. weapons plants. Much of it has been collected for
temporary storage in tanks at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in
Washington state, the Savannah River facility in South Carolina and the
former Idaho National Nuclear Laboratory, now known as INEEL. The
ultimate plan is to seal it in glass logs for permanent storage in the
vault now planned for Yucca Mountain in Nevada.

Deteriorating tanks have begun to leak in Washington and South Carolina,
threatening serious contamination of the Columbia and Savannah rivers;
INEEL sits atop an aquifer that recharges the Snake River in dry spells.
Understandably, the Department of Energy is interested in speeding the
cleanup process at all three sites. Incredibly, it has proposed to do so
by simply reclassifying some waste so it can be left right where it is.

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for the entire editorial, see
http://www.startribune.com/stories/561/4801639.html

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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
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org

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