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US House “Oversight” Hearing on Nuclear Waste Appears Designed to Create Gridlock; Ignore Critical Problems and Needed Solutions — Mining Awareness +

Based on the news release, and on what we know of the list of invited witnesses, as of Jun 4, 2019, and noting the witnesses who should be listed, and are not, this hearing seems designed to create NIMBY gridlock, while overlooking critical problems, and needed solutions. There also appears a lack of planning and […]

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June 8, 2019 - Posted by | Uncategorized

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  1. High Level Radionuclide Waste, is composed of concentrated, synthetic beta and gamma emitters. It is a byproduct of fission in reactors. It is lethaly toxic at a 50 billionth of a gram. It is pyrogenic and can react with materials to generate heat, gasses, fire and explosions. If a person were within 20 feet of 50 pounds of it, for 20 minutes, they would die of acute radiation poisoning after that 20 minute is up.

    It is the most radioactive and dangerous substace in the universe and Trump is insanely reclassifying it as low level nuclear waste.

    From Democracy Now

    Trump Administration Plans to Reclassify High-Level Radioactive Waste as Low-Risk

    HEADLINEJUN 07, 2019
    H10 trump administration radioactive waste nuclear energy department low risk

    The Trump administration is planning to reclassify high-level radioactive waste as low-risk, in a bid to cut as much as $40 billion from cleanup costs at nuclear weapons production sites around the U.S. A top Energy Department official called the proposal a “responsible, results-driven solution” to the problem of nuclear waste disposal. The move was condemned by environmentalists and scientists who say the waste needs to be contained in facilities deep underground. In a statement, the Natural Resources Defense Council said, “The Trump administration is moving to fundamentally alter more than 50 years of national consensus on how the most toxic and radioactive waste in the world is managed and ultimately disposed of

    doug's avatar Comment by doug | June 8, 2019 | Reply

  2. High Level Radionuclide Waste, is composed of concentrated, synthetic beta and gamma emitters. It is a byproduct of fission in reactors. It is lethaly toxic at a 50 billionth of a gram. It is pyrogenic and can react with materials to generate heat, gasses, fire and explosions. If a person were within 20 feet of 50 pounds of it, for 20 minutes, they would die of acute radiation poisoning after that 20 minute is up.

    It is the most radioactive and dangerous substace in the universe and Trump is insanely reclassifying it as low level nuclear waste.

    From Democracy Now

    Trump Administration Plans to Reclassify High-Level Radioactive Waste as Low-Risk

    HEADLINEJUN 07, 2019
    H10 trump administration radioactive waste nuclear energy department low risk

    The Trump administration is planning to reclassify high-level radioactive waste as low-risk, in a bid to cut as much as $40 billion from cleanup costs at nuclear weapons production sites around the U.S. A top Energy Department official called the proposal a “responsible, results-driven solution” to the problem of nuclear waste disposal. The move was condemned by environmentalists and scientists who say the waste needs to be contained in facilities deep underground. In a statement, the Natural Resources Defense Council said, “The Trump administration is moving to fundamentally alter more than 50 years of national consensus on how the most toxic and radioactive waste in the world is managed and ultimately disposed of

    doug's avatar Comment by doug | June 8, 2019 | Reply


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