Subject: Government won't build nuclear-waste incinerator nearYellowstone

[Magnu96196@aol.com]

In a message dated 3/28/00 4:23:43 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu writes:

<< nce again Energy Secretary Richardson bows to political pressure,
 without considering the impact on DOE's waste disposal program and the
 science which shows no possible harm to the Yellowstone National Park
 region.  It is interesting to note that there is a "nuclear waste
 incinerator" at the K-25 site, just a few miles upwind from the City of
 Oak Ridge and maybe 30 miles from the Knoxville metropolitan area with a
 population of about 600,000.  I suppose they'll just ship INEEL's waste
 to Oak Ridge's TSCA Incinerator, where emissions can't possibly drift
 over those celebrities' ranches in Jackson Hole.
 
 My opinion only,
 Susan Gawarecki 

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I am sure a town like Oak Ridge would be pleased to burn the INEEL Pu waste 
streams, after all, what harm can a little more nuclear waste do to a 
Superfund site composed of part of the city and  three large DOE plants that 
have thousands of more curies than that spread around.  It will also keep the 
TSCA from having to shut down due to lack of feed materials.

The plutonium can't be any worse on folks lungs in Oak Ridge than the 
fluoride releases from the Oak Ridge incinerator burning uranyl fluorides in 
the liquid waste feeds.

Oak Ridge already has hundreds of workers sick and many communities from the 
toxic soup released from TSCA, plus K-25 D&D emissions, a few more sick folks 
won't be noticed.   The Govt might even save some on the social security 
outlay times.

I am sure INEEL promised to do a good job with their incinerator also-----but 
movie stars did not buy those promisses.

Oak Ridge has always loved the reputation of its citizens glowing in the 
dark, now if they can just remember why with all the fluorine neurological 
damage effects.

Oak Ridge always does what is good for business, if some more Pu comes into 
town, the medical and oncology business will thrive-----but not one person 
will get a diagnosis that it might have been Pu releases.

Remember, dilution is the solution for pollution.   And all problems at gas 
diffusion plants are not rad related.

Just one more opinion,

Jim Phelps, near Oak Ridge
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