[ RadSafe ] RE: Korea city wins nuclear repository

[John Jacobus]

Jim,
Another example of ecomonics at work.  I wonder in the
citizens of Nevada would be oppositing Yucca Mountain
if they did not have Las Vegas.

--- "Muckerheide, James" <jimm at WPI.EDU> wrote:

> Friends,
>
> This is a follow-up article. Note in the report:
>  
> "In the three regions that lost the bid, severe
> criticism was targeted at
> environmental and anti-nuclear energy activist
> groups that encouraged
> residents to vote against the project. At Yeongdeok,
> Gunsan and Pohang, some
> residents scuffled with activist group officials.
> The residents said the
> activists had hindered the developments of regional
> economies and asked them
> to leave the areas."
> 
>  
> 
> Now this is unique condition!?  :-)
> 
>  
> 
> And note that in addition to cash, the development
> projects will raise the
> population from 4400 to 20,000!?  It's like going
> back to our 1970's pitch
> for ERDA/DOE to 'package' the repository proposals
> with other (related?)
> facilities.
> 
>  
> 
> Regards, Jim Muckerheide
> 
> =========================
> 
>  
> 
> ROK Daily: Locals Rejoice in Gyeongju's Selection
> for Nuclear Dump
> 
> KPP20051103971128 Seoul JoongAng Ilbo 
> 
> Nov 05
> 
> Hong Gweon-sam, Ser Myo-ja:
> 
>  
> 
> "Locals Rejoice in Gyeongju's Selection for Nuclear
> Dump"
> 
> [Headline as provided by source.] 
> 
> GYEONGJU, North Gyeongsang - After Gyeongju was
> selected as the site for the
> nation's first permanent nuclear waste dump, ending
> 19 years of government
> efforts to find a host region, residents expressed
> their joy at the decision. 
> 
> "When the government's support program begins,
> Yangbuk village will become
> urbanized. It will be reborn as a place where people
> badly want to live," a
> Gyeongju resident in Yangbuk said. The area was
> about 1.5 kilometers from the
> site, chosen early yesterday morning as the new home
> for the nuclear waste
> repository. "Our enthusiastic support raised the
> support rate for the project
> at the referendum to 90 percent," another resident
> said. 
> 
> The city is now entitled to a state subsidy of 300
> billion won ($288
> million). Another 8.5 billion won will be paid to
> the region annually in fees
> to bring in nuclear waste. 
> 
> The headquarters of the state-run Korea Hydro and
> Nuclear Power Co. will move
> to the region as well, and a multi-million-dollar
> sub-atomic particle
> accelerator project will also be based in the region
> as compensation. 
> 
> The programs are expected to increase the population
> in Yangbuk village,
> which now has 4,400 residents, by at least 20,000. 
> 
> "At first, opinions were divided, but everyone has
> passed beyond that now,"
> said Jo Han-su, a 52-year-old seafood restaurant
> owner. "Isn't it nice the
> region will be seeing incredible development?" 
> 
> The nuclear waste depository is expected to be built
> by 2008. Yangbuk is in
> Gyeongju, one of Korea's ancient capitals located
> about 371 kilometers
> southeast of Seoul.  
> 
> The National Election Commission held referenda at
> four cities that had
> applied to host the facility on Wednesday, and
> Gyeongju showed a turnout of
> 70.8 percent with 89.5 percent of them supporting
> the low- and
> intermediate-level radioactive waste depository. 
> 
> Anticipation was high throughout Gyeongju, but
> members of the 40 households
> who have to move away from their hometown appeared
> depressed. "The government
> will compensate me for my house, but not for our
> family's 1.6 acres of
> farmland outside the village," Heo Man-sun, a
> 65-year-old female resident,
> said. 
> 
> In the three regions that lost the bid, severe
> criticism was targeted at
> environmental and anti-nuclear energy activist
> groups that encouraged
> residents to vote against the project. At Yeongdeok,
> Gunsan and Pohang, some
> residents scuffled with activist group officials.
> The residents said the
> activists had hindered the developments of regional
> economies and asked them
> to leave the areas.
> 
>  
> 
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> transliterated as Chungang Ilbo) published by the
> widely read independent,
> moderate daily JoongAng Ilbo and distributed as an
> insert to the Seoul
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> English-language
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> copy in addition to
> unique reportage. URL:
> http://joongangdaily.joins.com/] 
> 
> 

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-- John
John Jacobus, MS
Certified Health Physicist
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