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Nuclear waste issue remains unaddressed

Nuclear waste issue remains unaddressed
APP.com Paula Gotsch February 10, 2009 If the Nuclear Regulatory Commission chooses to ignore the flashing red lights of unresolved safety problems at the Oyster Creek generating station by relicensing the facility to run for another 20 years, there still remains another unresolved problem no one has found a permanent answer for: What do you do with nuclear waste?

The problem is playing out all over the world as countries scramble to get rid of their poisonous legacy. Italy has entered into agreements to send theirs to the U.S. for temporary storage in places like Texas. The United Kingdom and France are trying to figure out what to do with their failed and leaking reprocessing plants that have contaminated rivers and land areas. Germany is concerned about childrens’ health problems around some of its storage facilities. And everywhere, the cost to even begin clean up is astronomical.

The tons of nuclear waste generated by Oyster Creek will continue to pile up in the spent fuel pool on top of the reactor and in cask storage on the ground………………….At 6:30 p.m. Wednesday in the Toms River Library auditorium, the League of Women Voters of Ocean County will hold a Community Dialogue on options for communities faced with the problem of neighborhood nuclear waste……………………………..The league also will announce a new program, Equal Protection for Women and Children, that will address the problem of low-level radiation and how the most vulnerable are, with the current standard used by federal agencies, the least protected.

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February 11, 2009 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | wastes