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From: Joseph R Parrish Jr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: LOOPHOLE: Radioactive Metal in Household Products
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If the report below is correct, we already have radioactive metals
being used in frying pans and baby carriages!
Joe
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RE: LOOPHOLE: Radioactive Metal in Household Products
>From the Common Dreams News Center . . .
http://www.commondreams.org/
> JULY 7, 1999 3:57 PM
> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
> CONTACT: Public Citizen
>
> Legal Loophole Opens Floodgates:
> Radioactive Metal Can Be Used in
> Household Products
>
> WASHINGTON - July 7 - A recent decision in a federal lawsuit
> will result in the continued recycling of thousands of tons of
> radioactive metal for use in household products because of a
> loophole in the Superfund cleanup law.
>
> Plaintiffs in the lawsuit sought to force the U.S. Department of
> Energy (DOE) to conduct an environmental impact study of a
> $250 million DOE contract awarded in 1997 to British Nuclear
> Fuels Ltd. (BNFL) to "recycle" radioactive metals from uranium
> enrichment plants in Tennessee. Such a study would have
> delayed and possibly prevented the reuse of the radioactive
> metal.
>
> "The BNFL contract is precedent-setting and is resulting in an
> experimental recycling process that will allow an estimated
> 100,000 tons of radioactive metals to be sold as scrap metal for
> use in items ranging from frying pans to baby carriages," said
> Wenonah Hauter, director of Public Citizen's Critical Mass
> Energy Project.
>
> In a June 29 decision, U.S. District Judge Gladys Kessler of
> Washington, D.C. used strong language about the danger this
> recycling poses to the public but said she could not order the
> DOE to write an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS)
> because, under a provision of the Superfund law, citizens are
> barred from bringing suit until the cleanup is completed.
>
> The judge described as "startling and worrisome" the absence
> of opportunity for "public scrutiny or input on a matter of such
> grave importance." She went on to say that "the lack of public
> scrutiny is only compounded by the fact that the recycling
> process BNFL intends to use is entirely experimental at this
> stage."
>
> The judge said that "the potential for environmental harm is
> great, especially given the unprecedented amount of hazardous
> materials which the Defendants seek to recycle."
>
> The nuclear industry, in cooperation with the federal
> government, has been attempting to "deregulate" radioactive
> metals from weapon facilities and decommissioned nuclear
> power plants since the 1970s. Public Citizen and other citizens
> organizations have successfully organized to prevent this
> recycling prior to the recent BNFL contract.
>
> The lawsuit was brought by the Paper, Allied-Industrial,
> Chemical and Energy Workers Union (PACE), the Nuclear
> Information and Resource Service (NIRS) and other groups.
>
> "Public Citizen, NIRS and other organizations are engaged in a
> campaign to educate consumers about the threat to their
> families health by the recycling of unknown quantities of
> radioactive metal and other materials with unknown levels of
> radiation into products that reach their homes," Hauter said.
>
> ###
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