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To: gyld@leland.Stanford.EDU (Dan Leo Gildor)

 DLG> In article <700592799.F00002@mcws.fidonet.org>
 DLG> Larry.Fletcher@f129.n102.z1.fidonet.org (Larry Fletcher) writes:
 >DEADLY RADIOACTIVE WASTE DUMP >*** URGENT ACTION NEEDED ***
 >
 >The state of California is proposing to dump deadly radioactive waste in
 >our California desert.  The site, 18 miles west of Needles, California and
 >18 miles west of the Colorado River, will soon become the dumping ground
 >for our nation's "low level" radio active waste.  18 states have already
 >expressed interest in dumping on California.
 >
 DLG> 
 DLG> I'm not sure of the details, and I'm not saying that I favor the dump,
 DLG> BUT...
 DLG> 
 DLG> The reason this is happening is because Congress has made the states
 DLG> responsible for their own LLRW.  It allows them to form compacts so
 DLG> that every state won't have to create its own dump.  As I last heard
 DLG> it, California was either going it alone or joining a Pacific compact
 DLG> that was going to consist of 3 states or something.  That the above
 DLG> mentioned site was going to become the *nation's* LLRW dump, I think,
 DLG> is an exageration. 
 DLG> The reason Congress made the states responsible is because too many
 DLG> states were shipping their waste out of state.  You know, the ol'
 DLG> externality  problem.
 DLG> 
 DLG> Anyway, my info is about 1 year old, so this might have all changed
 DLG> since. 

I recently heard a radio interview of Hugh Kaufman,
Assistant to the Director of Hazardous Site Control Division,
United States Environmental Protection Agency.

According to Mr. Kaufman the "low level" waste that will be
dumped at the Needles site includes everything but nuclear
fuel.  The control rods and every other part of decommissioned
nuclear reactors will placed in the dump.  Not only all of
California's nuclear waste, but other states and possibly
radioactive waste from overseas will be trucked over SoCal
highways to the Needles dump.

Three of the six existing commercial nuclear waste dumps in
the U.S. have already been shut down due to catastrophic failure
and the rest will be closed in the near future.  With current
technology the safest way to dispose of existing reactors is to
entomb them where they stand and guard them for a few hundred
thousand years.

This is the most important issue to face California in a 
long time.

    Larry
   
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