The major-party candidates for Idaho governor and attorney general agree that a federal proposal to send nuclear waste from Washington to Idaho for treatment isn’t realistic, especially considering existing cleanup and shipment delays at the Idaho National Laboratory’s desert site.
In interviews, the candidates weighed in on several key nuclear waste and research issues related to the U.S. Department of Energy and INL, including the controversial proposal to move 7,000 cubic meters of transuranic nuclear waste to a specialized eastern Idaho facility for treatment. A recent poll found a majority of Idahoans favor accepting the waste to keep the facility going.
“To make a pipeline where waste from another area came in here, was processed, and was shipped out — I just don’t think it makes good sense,” said Republican Lt. Gov. Brad Little, who faces Democrat Paulette Jordan in the Nov. 6 general election. “There’s a lot of other things we can do at the lab.”
“My intent is to not take in any more nuclear waste until we are able to properly manage what we have already, and are able to ship [that waste] outside our state,” said Jordan, a former state representative.
Idaho politicians have for decades grappled with nuclear waste issues — how to balance pushing the federal government to clean up the toxic mess at the INL site while also maintaining a healthy research laboratory in the state. That challenge will continue for the next governor and attorney general, who will face a DOE out of compliance on several of its cleanup commitments under the 1995 Settlement Agreement, the document regulating federal radioactive waste cleanup in the Gem State.
They may also find themselves managing a renewed push to change or renegotiate the landmark cleanup agreement — a possibility that has nuclear watchdog group Snake River Alliance concerned — as well as plans to build a new type of nuclear reactor on the INL site.
“The problem is there’s a good chunk of eastern Idaho who make a living off of INL. We can’t ignore them,” said Bruce Bistline, a Democrat and Boise attorney challenging Republican Lawrence Wasden for attorney general. “But at the same time, it’s Western Idaho who drinks the water that will one day be undrinkable if we don’t get ahold of the management of that waste.”
Former Gov. Phil Batt, a Republican who negotiated the waste deal with federal officials, said the state’s next leader must be ready to learn about several complicated nuclear issues, and realize the federal government can be difficult to deal with. He added that no new waste should be accepted until DOE has met its current obligations to Idaho.
“I think we need to keep [the pressure] on them,” he said of the agency.
Accepting Hanford waste
As co-chairman of the state’s Leadership in Nuclear Energy Commission, Little said he’s studied the federal proposal to bring waste into the state for treatment. “I just don’t believe it’s going to happen,” he said.
The idea is to send Cold War-era waste from the Hanford Site in Washington, and possibly other federal facilities, to eastern Idaho for treatment and repackaging. From there, the waste would be sent on for disposal at a New Mexico facility called the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, or WIPP…….
to bring in even more waste before the current work is finished doesn’t make much sense, both Little and Jordan said. Both indicated other research and cleanup work at the site could employ many of the workers who are now based at the treatment facility. ……https://www.idahostatesman.com/news/politics-government/election/article219803490.html
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this is what Bloody Fuko Henry Kissinger, Bloody Donny- perry, abbot are upto now
france, Japan, The USA are hauling in trains and trucks, millions of pounds, of the worst radioactive waste through ports and across the USA to Texas . IT will be stored in West Texas. Megatons of the most dangerous, poisonous, evil shit on earth trucked and trained across every corner of the USA. Hauled on unsuspected road and railroads, in murica. One rupture could wipeout a small town.
The most dangerous shit on earth. Each cask has tons, of the highest level radioactive poison on earth. Full of Strontium 90 , radioactive cesium, plutonium and more.
Any small amount, can be made into nuclear and or dirty bombs.
It is stored in the flimsiest containment, on a concrete pad, in one of the hottest places in America by Midland.
If one of the thin casks ruptures, or it sets off a fire, it can cause multiple ruptures of the huge casks. It can cause fires and perhaps explosions. So much hi level nuclear death, dangerously stored, in the flimsiest containment, in one place. Never done before.
A catastrophe can ensue that will poison Texas, NM, Ok, Co, Utah, Arizona. As if those states are not contaminated enough. The catastrophe will affect Mexico too. Nobody gives a shit, in Murica or Mehico. Bidnessas and massive corruption as usual.
Remember how WIPP blew in New Mexico? Those drums of plutonium in kitty litter. They could not access it for months.
Three, large hi level casks in idaho blew up, in recently.
The company nuclear waste company is owned by Henry Kissinger of Nixon neocon fame. Of course no regulations binding bloody Henry. So is above ground concrete pad, in Texas owned by Kissinger.
Remember the SCi Fi show , Space 1999 from the seventies. The base story of the show was a massive explosion of huge amounts of plutonium nuclear waste. In the show, set in a future later than 1978, massive amounts nuclear waste stored on the dark side of the Moon Blow up. It knocks the moon out of orbit.
We know now, that hi-level rad waste is very volatile. Generates its own heat. The radionuclide alpha, beta, gamma, and neutrons degrade containment relatively quickly.
The waste may not cause criticalities, but could poison millions. How frikin stupid is that?
The attorney General of texas, is getting kickbacks. So is the Rump family and Rick Perry. Just when u thought it might not get much worse, with the trump turds.
A 1000 tons, already there. Stored above ground, in Texas heat.