nuclear-news

Idaho [Nuclear] National Lab (INL) benefits from fat cat funding and salaries, and promotes new nuclear reactors and thus waste. Idaho Senator Crapo actively tries to undermine US Nuclear safety, while getting more nuclear pork to create more nuclear messes within Idaho and without. But, large, underpopulated, Idaho, doesn’t want that nasty radioactive waste. Nope. Whereas Idaho gets the jobs and has an appropriate geology (granite) and climate (arid and cool) they want the radioactive waste to be dumped upon hot climates (arid New Mexico and Texas, and wet South Carolina) with inappropriate geologies for nuclear waste. And, if Idaho with 1.6 million people doesn’t get their way then they will shake-down the rest of the country, as though INL isn’t a big enough shake-down: “DOE shall ship all transuranic” [that is plutonium, americium, etc.] “waste now located at INEL, currently estimated at 65,000 cubic meters…