[CPEO-MEF] RADIATION, CLOSURE, MUNITIONS : Jefferson Proving Ground (IN) uranium

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Panel: Plan for JPG uranium taking too long

Peggy Vlerebome
Madison Courier (IN)
June 11, 2008


A panel of federal administrative law judges said a plan for dealing 
with radioactive depleted uranium at Jefferson Proving Ground is taking 
too long to get through the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

The same criticism was leveled three years ago by another panel of the 
Atomic Safety and Licensing Board. One administrative law judge, Alan S. 
Rosenthal, was on both panels. He is chairman of the panel that leveled 
the most recent criticism and was chairman of the panel three years ago.

Although the Army stopped testing depleted uranium in 1994 at the former 
proving ground, there still is not a decommissioning plan in place, the 
panel pointed out.

The Army left about 77 tons of DU projectiles and fragments where they 
landed in a 2,080-acre area that now is fenced and posted with signs 
warning of radioactivity. Depleted uranium is left over from making fuel 
for nuclear power plants. It strengthens metal and is used for munitions 
that can pierce enemy tanks as well as for cladding U.S. tanks to 
protect them.

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For the entire article, see
HTTP://www.madisoncourier.com/main.asp?SectionID=4&subsectionID=253&articleID=43835


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Lenny Siegel
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