And now:Ish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1998 13:15:29 EST >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >X-Mailer: AOL 3.0 for Windows 95 sub 52 >Subject: [DOEWatch] SNS document open to public > >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Source: ><A HREF="http://www.oakridger.com/stories/122398/new_1223980022.html"> >http://www.oakridger.com/stories/122398/new_1223980022.html >======================================================== >December 23, 1998 > >SNS document open to public > >From staff reports > > An outline of the environmental effects the Spallation Neutron Source will >bring with its construction has been released in the draft form of an >environmental impact statement for the project. > The draft environmental impact statement outlines the potential >environmental impact from the construction of the one-megawatt, six-football- >field-length, $1.3 billion facility at four possible locations -- Oak Ridge, >Los Alamos, N.M., Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York and Argonne >National Laboratory near Chicago. Work on the Oak Ridge site has begun. > A public hearing on the draft environmental impact statement will be held >Jan. 28 at the American Museum of Science and Energy. > A copy will soon be posted on the Web at http://tis.eh.doe.gov/nepa/. >General information on the Spallation Neutron Source can be viewed at >http://www.ornl.gov/sns/. > Hard copies of the draft environmental impact statement can be obtained by >writing David Wilfert, EIS manager of the Spallation Neutron Source project at >200 Administration Road, 146/SNS, Oak Ridge, TN 37831. Or call or e-mail at >(800) 927-9964 and [EMAIL PROTECTED] > The public comment period ends Feb. 8, 1999. >======================================================== > >Comments: > > The one-megawatt may be the beam energy and the power used to gain that >can be hundreds of times the beam power. Spellation sources are power and >energy hogs of massive proportion. This sends up area generation of SOx and >NOx and ozone from the power plants that use coal. It also increases the >levels of heavy metals in the air which directly affect the cancer and immune >illness rates. The SNS documents need to be accountable for the total system >analysis on power usage----human health effects------damage to the >smokies------etc. There will also be a significant amount of tritium used >and nuclear wastes generated for long term burials. > > Does a toxic superfund site like Oak Ridge need this kind of extra health >burden to affect the many already sick------most who know all the numbers >would say no. We need to spend this money on emissions controls-------not >neutrons. Oak Ridge already has a neutron source. > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ >To unsubscribe from this mailing list, or to change your subscription >to digest, go to the ONElist web site, at http://www.onelist.com and >select the User Center link from the menu bar on the left. > <<<<=-=-=FREE LEONARD PELTIER=-=-=>>>> If you think you are too small to make a difference; try sleeping in a closed room with a mosquito.... African Proverb <<<<=-=http://www.tdi.net/ishgooda/ =-=>>>> IF it says: "PASS THIS TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW...." Please Check it before you send it at: http://urbanlegends.miningco.com/library/blhoax.htm
