[CPEO-MEF] RADIATION: "Nuclear Waste Smolders in Sites Across the US "

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

"It's a Cover-Up, Not a Clean-Up": Nuclear Waste Smolders in Sites Across the US

By Daniel Ross
Truthout 
March 30, 2017 

Renowned wartime journalist Wilfred Burchett described the damage from the atomic bomb that flattened Hiroshima as "far greater than photographs can show." When it comes to the enduring legacy of the Manhattan Project on home soil, the damage to the environment and human health is proving similarly hard to grasp.

The covert project to create the world's first atomic weapon during WWII, coupled with the nuclear proliferation of the Cold War era, has left a trail of toxic and radioactive waste at sites across the nation that will necessitate, by some margin, the largest environmental cleanup in the nation's history. The amount of money that has been poured into remediating the waste already is staggering. Still, it appears that the scale of the problems, and the efforts needed to effectively tackle them, continue to be underestimated by the authorities responsible for their cleanup.

Since 1989, the Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Environmental Management -- the agency charged with cleaning up "legacy" radioactive waste -- has spent over $164 billion disposing of nuclear waste and contamination, completing the cleanup at 91 of 107 sites across the country. And yet between 2011 and 2016, the DOE's Environmental Management environmental liability grew by roughly $94 billion.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/40051-it-s-a-cover-up-not-a-clean-up-nuclear-waste-smolders-in-sites-across-the-us

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
Voice/Fax: 650/961-8918 
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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