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>A good public servant will not dismiss concerns about transporting high-level
>nuclear waste through the metro area as "scaremongering." Nuclear waste
>transport poses an unprecedented risk to the environment and human health.
Sorry, but this does seem to me to be a bit of "scare-mongering".
After all, this nuclear waste is waste -- the end product of nuclear
fuel. How do you think the fuel got there in the first place?
Obviously they have been transporting nuclear fuel (surely much
more potent) to these plants regularly for the past 20 years or so, and
probably travelling on Minneapolis highways & railroads to get there.
And what about all the hospitals that use radiation scanners --
the nuclear materials used in these medical scanners had to be delivered to
the hospital somehow. I would bet that for many years we have had nuclear
materials travelling right down Chicago Ave S. on their way to
Abbott-Northwestern Hospital. And similar routes to all the other
hospitals in Minneapolis.
So it's already happening, and has been for 20-30 years! With no
problems, no disasters, hardly even noticed by the people of
Minneapolis. Hardly an "unprecedented risk". And over these past decades
of delivering nuclear materials thru Minneapolis, I can't recall any
accidents, nor any "dangerous" or "deadly" results to the people of
Minneapolis. (But I can name people, including my mother, whose lives were
saved thanks to the nuclear medical scanners at Abbott-Northwestern.)
So they have many years of actual experience to show that nuclear
materials can be transported thru Minneapolis safely. You have only
"scenarios laid out" showing accidents that "could" happen. I do think
that's leaning toward scare-mongering.
Tim Bonham, Ward 12, Standish-Ericsson
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