radioactive pots and pans from recycling has already been an issue.
Prima facia evidence our leaders are incompetent.
"D. Mindock" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
From: "D. Mindock" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <Undisclosed-Recipient:;>
Subject: Fw: Nuclear Weapons Materials Released to Landfills
Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 02:17:24 -0500
st1\:* { BEHAVIOR: url(#default#ieooui) } It seems like we
are not being protected against anything that's harmful. The gates to all
polluters are wide open. When you add in the approved pollutants like
fluoride, aspartame,
vaccinations, mercury amalgams, MSG, chlorine, pesticides, GMOs,
electro-smog, etc., you might get
the idea that we're intentionally being exposed to these things. Ask
yourself: Why?
NEWS FROM NIRS
Nuclear Information and Resource Service
6930 Carroll Avenue, #340, Takoma Park, MD 20912
301-270-6477; fax: 301-270-4291; www.nirs.org; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
May 14, 2007
Contacts: Diane DArrigo, 301-270-6477 ext. 16
Mary Olson (NIRS Southeast) (after 1 PM eastern), 828-675-1792
New Report Finds Nuclear Weapons Materials Released to Landfills
Pathways Open for Reuse and Recycling
Takoma Park, MD Radioactive materials are being released from nuclear
weapons facilities to regular landfills and could get into commercial recycling
streams, finds a new report released today by Nuclear Information and Resource
Service (NIRS).
The report: Out of Control On Purpose: DOEs Dispersal of Radioactive Waste
into Landfills and Consumer Products was commissioned to track if and how the
Department of Energy (DOE) releases some of the radioactive wastes from nuclear
bomb production.
The report authors, led by Diane DArrigo, NIRS Radioactive Waste Project
Director, researched seven sites and the DOE national headquarters. The seven
sites were: Oak Ridge TN, Rocky Flats CO, Los Alamos NM, Mound and Fernald OH,
West Valley NY, and Paducah KY.
People around regular trash landfills will be shocked to learn that
radioactive contamination from nuclear weapons production is ending up there,
either directly released by DOE or via brokers and processors, DArrigo said.
Just as ominous, the DOE allows and encourages sale and donation of some
radioactively contaminated materials.
The report tracked the laws, guidance and technical justifications that DOE
uses to rationalize allowing radioactive scrap, concrete, equipment, asphalt,
plastic, wood, chemicals, soil, and more out to landfills, commercial
businesses and recreation areas, recycling and reuse in places unprepared to
handle radioactivity. Applauding DOEs ban on recycling of radioactive metal
from nuclear weapons, the report cautions there are loopholes and it is again
threatened.
DOE is ignoring public opposition to unnecessary exposures and releasing
radioactivity even though the U.S. Congress revoked such release policies,
said Mary Olson, director of the NIRS Southeast office and a co-author of the
report. DOE is using its own internal guidance to allow radioactive weapons
wastes out of control, claiming the doses to people will be acceptable even
though they are not enforced or tracked.
Under the current system, the DOE and other nuclear waste generators release
materials directly, sell them at auction or through exchanges or send their
waste to processors who can then release it from radioactive controls to
landfills, to recyclers or for reuse.
The report found that the State of Tennessee is a leader in licensing
processors that can release radioactive materials for the nuclear waste
generators.
Tennessee is serving as a funnel to bring in nuclear weapons and power waste
from around the country to disperse into the landfills and recycling without
public knowledge, DArrigo said.
The waste is processed by state-licensed companies and in some cases
redefined as special then released to regular landfills. This free release
also opens up the potential for the materials to enter the recycling stream to
make everyday household and personal items or to be used to build roads,
schools, and playgrounds.
As long as DOE and other nuclear waste generators can slip their
contamination out letting it get Out of Control On Purpose there is really
no limit to the amount of additional radiation exposure members of the public
could receive, DArrigo concluded. Only an informed, outraged public can
force DOE and agreeable states to shift the goal from dispersal to isolation of
radioactive waste.
A copy of the full report can be found on the NIRS web site at:
http://www.nirs.org/radwaste/outofcontrol/outofcontrol.htm
The report authors and contributors include:
Diane DArrigo, NIRS Radioactive Waste Project Director
Mary Olson, Director, NIRS Southeast Office
Cindy Folkers, NIRS, Health and Environment Project
Dr. Marvin Resnikoff, Radioactive Waste Management Associates, NYC
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