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Judi Lynn

(160,219 posts)
Mon Dec 10, 2018, 05:11 PM Dec 2018

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

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Trump plan to reclassify nuke waste alarms environmentalists (Original Post) Judi Lynn Dec 2018 OP
It never ends, daily destruction hibbing Dec 2018 #1
Individual-1 tower may have space kiri Dec 2018 #3
Mar a Lago too keithbvadu2 Dec 2018 #4
I know! SkyDaddy7 Dec 2018 #9
Wouldn't this lower property values in and around the Hanford area? Tikki Dec 2018 #2
What could possibly go wrong? (nt) mr_lebowski Dec 2018 #5
I wouldn't trust tRump to classify dog shit, much less nuclear waster. LakeSuperiorView Dec 2018 #6
This is terrifying here in San Diego, where a decommissioned reactor wastes are buried at th beach Liberty Belle Dec 2018 #7
Oh, HELL NO Haggis for Breakfast Dec 2018 #8
Terrible idea which endangers people. NT Eric J in MN Dec 2018 #10

hibbing

(10,076 posts)
1. It never ends, daily destruction
Mon Dec 10, 2018, 05:29 PM
Dec 2018

I'm frankly worried that once all of these environmental regulations are dismantled we will have a very difficult time implementing them again.


Peace

SkyDaddy7

(6,045 posts)
9. I know!
Tue Dec 11, 2018, 03:04 AM
Dec 2018

It is obvious everyone who came in with the Trump Administration & is smart enough to know what they’re 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 it’s the problem!”…”We can’t 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 can’t hire people. Especially, in the numbers that would allow the Federal Government to operate far more efficiently!

Tikki

(14,539 posts)
2. Wouldn't this lower property values in and around the Hanford area?
Mon Dec 10, 2018, 05:30 PM
Dec 2018

Besides all the environmental and health impact!!!


Tikki

Liberty Belle

(9,528 posts)
7. This is terrifying here in San Diego, where a decommissioned reactor wastes are buried at th beach
Mon Dec 10, 2018, 08:32 PM
Dec 2018

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)
8. Oh, HELL NO
Mon Dec 10, 2018, 11:35 PM
Dec 2018

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.

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