{"id":950,"date":"2005-06-27T09:09:19","date_gmt":"2005-06-27T13:09:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/wordpress\/?p=950"},"modified":"2005-06-27T09:09:19","modified_gmt":"2005-06-27T13:09:19","slug":"you-cant-be-serious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=950","title":{"rendered":"you can’t be serious"},"content":{"rendered":"

The public has 60 days to respond to a 500-page draft environmental impact statement posted<\/a> last Friday by the gov’t related to its intent to produce plutonium 238, the first such production “since the 1980’s at the government’s Savannah River plant in South Carolina<\/a>” where barrels of radioactive waste have piled up<\/a> due the gov’ts failure to develop a reliable method for its disposal. The Energy Dept. wanted the drums to stay there forever:<\/p>\n

March 16, 2004<\/u><\/p>\n

For the federal government to leave the grouted tanks on site, the waste would have to be reclassified as less hazardous. But last year a federal court in Idaho rejected the Energy Department’s attempt do this through a federal rulemaking process. <\/p>\n

The Bush administration is appealing the Idaho decision and asking Congress change federal law in order to the waste to be reclassified and left on site at nuclear weapons plants.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Congress obliged 3 months later<\/a>.<\/p>\n

From today’s NYT<\/em><\/a>: <\/p>\n

Federal officials say the program would produce a total of 330 pounds over 30 years at the Idaho National Laboratory, a sprawling site outside Idaho Falls some 100 miles to the west and upwind of Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming. Officials say the program could cost $1.5 billion and generate more than 50,000 drums of hazardous and radioactive waste.<\/p>\n

Project managers say that most if not all of the new plutonium is intended for secret missions and they declined to divulge any details. But in the past, it has powered espionage devices.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The child refuses to clean its mess<\/a>, renames it instead, and “asks” to make another 1,000 times bigger elsewhere. I know what I’d tell my child.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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