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Resolve nuclear waste site first

Resolve nuclear waste site first post-Bulletin Jay Youmans 20 April 09

It makes no sense to lift the legal moratorium or build new nuclear power plants in Minnesota until the nuclear industry finds a solution for the radioactive waste produced at nuclear plants.

It makes no sense to pass the costs of electrical production and use on to future generations by leaving them nuclear waste that has to be stored and is dangerous for longer than recorded human history.

How can we justify passing this cost and legacy onto our children?

……………………..Yucca is located in an active earthquake zone with more than 30 known faults in the area (a 5.6 earthquake in 1992 did $100 million damage to the site). Since 1976, there have been 621 seismic events of magnitude greater than 2.5 within a 50-mile radius of Yucca Mountain. Today there is more civilian and military nuclear waste than the Yucca depository’s 70,000 metric ton capacity.

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April 22, 2009 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | USA, wastes | antinuclear, nuclear, radioactive, wastes