Trump plan to reclassify nuke waste alarms environmentalists
Source: Associated Press
Nicholas K. Geranios, Associated Press
Updated 2:47 pm CST, Monday, December 10, 2018
SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) The Trump administration wants to reclassify some radioactive waste left from the production of nuclear weapons to lower its threat level and make disposal cheaper and easier.
The proposal by the U.S. Department of Energy would lower the status of some high-level radioactive waste in several places around the nation, including the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington state the most contaminated nuclear site in the country.
Reclassifying the material to low-level could save the agency billions of dollars and decades of work by essentially leaving the material in the ground, critics say.
The proposal joins a long list of Trump administration efforts to loosen environmental protections. Just last week, the Environmental Protection Agency acted to ease rules on the sagging U.S. coal industry.
Read more: https://www.chron.com/news/us/article/Trump-plan-to-reclassify-nuke-waste-alarms-13454572.php
hibbing
(10,076 posts)I'm frankly worried that once all of these environmental regulations are dismantled we will have a very difficult time implementing them again.
Peace
kiri
(786 posts)for a lot of waste.
keithbvadu2
(36,369 posts)It is obvious everyone who came in with the Trump Administration & is smart enough to know what theyre doing or follow instructions from industry are working really hard to BREAK EVERYTHING they can as fast as they while the Trump Tax Cuts drain the revenue needed later to fix stuff!
...Again, when all this damage being done brings the chickens home to roost we will hear the same ole Government is not the solution its the problem!
We cant afford to throw tax payer money at problems the government has failed at...We need to privatize or do away with X, Y & Z!
My wife & brother both work for the Federal Government & they say it is insane the workload they have with many individuals doing the jobs of 2-3 people & they cant hire people. Especially, in the numbers that would allow the Federal Government to operate far more efficiently!
Tikki
(14,539 posts)Besides all the environmental and health impact!!!
Tikki
mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)LakeSuperiorView
(1,533 posts)Liberty Belle
(9,528 posts)close to the shore where sea levels are rising and an earthquake tsunami is possilbe (remember Fukushima?). It's already too shallow to be safe, and there's been at least one near-miss accident even with the woefully inadequate safety measures now in place.
Haggis for Breakfast
(6,831 posts)Says this Washingtonian. The Hanford is a disaster. Re-classifying the waste there as something, anything other than what it is - armageddon in plain sight - would just be another way for the government or DoE to do what they have always wanted to do with it -- forget about it. While all of the toxins, poisons, heavy metals, etc., continue to leach into the ground, the water, the sub-strata and pollute the air above it all.
Eric J in MN
(35,619 posts)NT