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Larry Fletcher wrote:
>What the Beatty studies 
>show is that radioactive waste migrates through the desert much more 
>rapidly than previously thought, which means radiation from Ward 
>Valley could leach into the water table and the Colorado River, source of 
>drinking water for millions.
>

For once, Mr. Fletcher, try the truth.  The Beatty site stored liquid
wastes.  Ward Valley will not.  There is no threat to the water table from
Ward Valley or the Colorado River, as common sense and the U.S. Geologic
Survey study shows.  The only way radioactivity will leave the site towards
the water table is by rain leaching material into the soil below the site. 
That is so rare, and the migration so slow, that any radioactive material
will have decayed below background level before it's ten feet from Ward
Valley.  And no material, radioactive or not, will get to the water table,
600 feet below, for several million years.

In addition, a National Academy of Sciences report unanimously concluded
that the project poses no realistic threat to the Colorado River or the
water supply of Southern California.  

The truth is that you are willing to let low level wastes continue to be
stored in a manner orders of magnitude more dangerous than Ward Valley will
ever be rather than demonstrate the slighest level of ethics.

Your utterly dishonest fearmongering is contemptible.


Andrew Russell 
arussell@bix.com

(I have zero connection with U.S. Ecology, the 'Ward Valley Action
Network', or any other person or agency on any side of the Ward Valley
issue).