No international nuclear garbage for America

Don’t import nuclear waste

Bill by Alexander, Gordon would ban such shipments

The Leaf Chronicle October 21, 2009 If a friend asked to dump his garbage in your yard because he knew you would know what to do with it, what would you say? Probably, no thanks. That’s what the United States should say to countries that want to send their nuclear waste here for processing and storage. Thankfully, Sen. Lamar Alexander and U.S. Rep. Bart Gordon of Murfreesboro are sponsoring legislation in Congress to keep other countries’ nuclear waste out of the United States. No other nation allows the importation and storage of another country’s nuclear waste.

We shouldn’t, either.

The controversy arose when a private Utah company, EnergySolutions, asked the Nuclear Regulatory Commission for permission to bring in 20,000 tons of low-level radioactive waste from Italy…….

Current laws don’t address importing nuclear waste from other countries. But that issue is addressed in the proposed legislation…………..The problem with allowing the waste to come to the United States is that America will become the world’s dumping ground for nuclear waste.

That’s because no other country will accept the stuff. This is not a “world leader” designation America needs…………One thing is fairly certain, we don’t want their nuclear garbage dumped in America’s backyard.

— Editorial, The Jackson Sun, Oct. 18 http://www.theleafchronicle.com/article/20091021/OPINION/910210316

October 23, 2009 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Legal, USA | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear wastes, wastes