And now:Ish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
***** NUCLEAR INCINERATOR ALERT *****
U.S. Dept. of Energy (DOE) locating facility at ARCO, Idaho (INEEL)with NO
PUBLIC COMMENT PERIODS in MONTANA or WYOMING
Workgroup Forming: WEDNESDAY, Sept. 15th, 3-6 pm
Jeannette Rankin Peace Resource Center, 519 S. Higgins
Attention! -- Nuclear contamination of Montana communities and headwaters
should be expected if the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) goes ahead with a
project to build a new MIXED NUCLEAR AND HAZARDOUS WASTE INCINERATOR
facility at the existing INEEL facility in ARCO, Idaho. The permit process
is now moving ahead swiftly in Idaho, where public comments on its
"pollution source permit application" recently closed. NO PUBLIC COMMENTS
have been planned for Montana or Wyoming, even though the impact of the
facility will include airshed contamination over Yellowstone Park, Jackson
WY, West Yellowstone Montana and vacinity, with consequent "rainout" of
radioactive particles over Yellowstone Park and the headwaters of Snake and
Madison River country.
According to the Environmental Defense Institute, the DOE has already signed
a contract with British Nuclear Fuels Limited (BNFL) to build and operate
the facility, which is scheduled to open in 2003, and run for at least 13
years. This proposal developed after a similar facility proposed for
Lawrence Livermore Labs in Berkeley, California was stopped in 1990. The DOE
then moved its focus to less populated Idaho, but was held up for several
years by failure to produce a site-specific EIS. The project was spurred
this spring, when DOE's Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) facility opened
in New Mexico, but rejected transport of mixed hazardous and nuclear waste
from Idaho's INEEL site, due to the potential volatility of its hazardous
chemical components.
Both INEEL and BNFL have a history of serious emission releases and
violations. "Since 1991 there have been at least 20 emission control system
failures at INEEL waste treatment plants, the majority of which have been
filter failures." BNFL already operates nuclear waste incinerators at DOE's
Oak Ridge Facility in Tennessee and in Great Britian at Sellafield. At Oak
Ridge, a Tennessean newspaper documented in 1996, that "the emergency vent
in the incinerator opened four times in three months." At Sellafield,
pollution levels have been compared to Chernobyl in some respects; studies
have shown contamination of the Irish Sea, and health impacts on school
children in England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales. Existing
emissions screening technologies are insufficient to contain tiny, heavy
radioactive particles from escaping into airsheds.
Keep Yellowstone Nuclear Free has recently formed as a nonprofit citizen
group in Jackson, WY to address this alarming situation. As Montanans, we
also have the right to a clean and healthful environment -- Please help stop
this planned contamination of Yellowstone and the beautiful Madison-Snake
Headwaters country! Incineration is NO SOLUTION for radioactive waste. It
will only spread out a problem whose containment has already confounded all
attempts to rebottle the nuclear genie.
Please help form a local workgroup to help facilitate public comment on this
alarming issue! Evening meeting to be scheduled for near future, but please
come by the Rankin Center at 519 S. Higgins on Wednesday if you're available!
For more info: Information Sheet is posted at Ecology Center and
Jeanette Rankin Peace Resource Center (extra copies in file);
or see <http://www.yellowstonenuclearfree.com>;
contact Sue Bradford at <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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