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Related comment deadline 11.59 pm 20 December: “Report on Changes to Low-Level Waste Burial Charges; Draft NUREG for Comment ID“: NRC-2016-0220-0001 https://www.regulations.gov/document?D=NRC-2016-0220-0001

Goldman Sachs Investment banker “alumnus” – now nuclear waste “king” Doug Kimmelman was a major Trump donor: http://www.fec.gov/finance/disclosure/norindsea.shtml. When investment bankers deal in nuclear waste, especially the burial thereof, we need to be very, very scared. https://miningawareness.wordpress.com/2015/01/05/when-investment-bankers-deal-in-nuclear-waste-for-investment-profit-we-need-to-be-very-scared/

The document for comment, showing some costs, is found here: https://www.regulations.gov/document?D=NRC-2016-0220-0002. The document discusses the literal and metaphorical killing being made in the burial of so-call Low-Level Nuclear waste, which isn’t low level at all, but rather mostly dilute high level waste. To be safe for burial it would need to have a half-life in days, in which case it could be held on site.

Common sense suggests that this nuclear waste could be stored properly and monitored for a long time for the insanely high amounts being charged…