And now:Ish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Source: <A HREF="http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/text/1999/jan/07/508242020. html html"> http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/text/1999/jan/07/508242020.html =========================================================== January 07, 1999 Test Site expected to be named as site to dump waste from nuclear weapons By Mary Manning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> LAS VEGAS SUN The Nevada Test Site is expected to be named as a regional dumping ground for low-level radioactive waste left over from U.S. nuclear weapons development across the country, a Department of Energy official said. Carl Gertz, DOE's assistant manager in Nevada for environmental management, told the Citizens Advisory Board to the Nevada Test Site on Wednesday that DOE headquarters will decide soon what to do with mounting radioactive wastes from 50 years of Cold War weapons development. The waste includes soils, clothing and laboratory equipment contaminated with radiation. The agency's decision should be made this year, he said. "Most likely the Test Site will be named as a regional site," Gertz said. The Test Site, 65 miles northwest of Las Vegas, was the main location for U.S. nuclear weapons experiments from 1951 through 1992. It has been storing and burying nuclear waste from its own activities and some other federal sites. In the past five years, the Test Site has received up to 600,000 cubic feet a year from DOE sites, Gertz said. That could change if the Test Site becomes a regional low-level nuclear waste destination. Gertz estimated that up to 700,000 cubic feet of the contaminated wastes per year could come to the Test Site from Fernald, Ohio, and Oak Ridge, Tenn. Fernald, which processes uranium for nuclear weapons, has already been sending about 600,000 cubic feet of contaminated waste per year to the Test Site. Oak Ridge still has to be approved to send its estimated 100,000 cubic feet of wastes annually to the Test Site, Gertz said. "It's not that much more," Gertz said. In return, the Test Site will send about 100 cubic feet a year of low-level nuclear waste mixed with solvents, oil and fuels to Oak Ridge so it can be burned in an approved incinerator, he said. Mixed wastes are treated under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act. Shipments from Fernald were stopped in December 1997 after seven containers shipped with sludge containing low levels of radiation leaked liquid at the Test Site and in Kingman, Ariz. The two gallons of liquid dripping from a truck in Kingman were not radioactive. After Nevada officials protested the leaks, the DOE stopped all Fernald shipments and conducted its own investigation. Based on its conclusions, the DOE is preparing to resume shipping Fernald's waste to the Test Site later this month, Gertz said. The Ohio site can only ship dry waste at first. When it begins sending sludge, it cannot use the white metal boxes which leaked, unless each container is packed inside of another one. Fernald shipments will continue to cross Hoover Dam and travel U.S. 95, through Las Vegas on its way to the Test Site. Gertz said the DOE and Nevada state officials are considering alternate routes. Fernald will continue monitoring the shipments. ======================================================== ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ DOEWatch List --- Subscribe online: http://www.onelist.com/subscribe.cgi/doewatch Quote from Truman's diary July 25, 1945: "We have discovered the most terrible bomb in the history of the world. It may be the fire destruction prophesized in the Euphrates Valley Era, after Noah and his fabulous Ark. Anyway we think we have found the way to cause the disintegration of the atom." <<<<=-=-=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
