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RE: The FFTF
There
is a problem here though. DOE is accelerating its plans to remove the liquid
sodium from the reactor. Their milestone, if I remember correctly, requires them
to begin removing sodium by June 2003, but I was informed that they plan to
accelerate it to begin as early as this November. I have to license the
facility where the sodium is to be stored, and actually did that in 1994, but
its out of date,. so they have to bring it up to date before they
begin.
At the
same time, I've been contacted by Health and Human Services about the
possibility of using the reactor for medical isotopes, and hearings are
currently being held in the Pacific Northwest on that subject, as Ruth's note
indicated. Two federal agencies are pulling me in two separate directions, but
if DOE, as my licensee, provides me with everything I need to update the
license, I will have to let them proceed.
There's very little time to do anything to change the direction DOE is
taking.
I am posting the following because I believe it is of interest to
RADSAFERS:
Ruth:
Thanks for your support. The underlying
documents justifying DOE's destruction of the FFTF are extraordinarily
poor quality. The case against the FFTF has yet to be made. Worse,
this is a national health issue which the DOE explicitly (in the Holland
report) did not consider. This is 90% of the reason for saving the FFTF,
yet they ignore it.
In one recent study the cost savings to the
Medicare program for a single diagnostic advanced nuclear procedure for breast
cancer could save more than $800,000,000 per year. The total annual
savings would be in the billions/yr.
Last night in Yakima
(first time any hearing has been held there) we got the signatures of 44 MDs
endorsing the restart. Other knowledgeable MDs are also weighing in.
We'd encourage FFTF hearings to be held across the nation for the
public to hear of the amazing new cancer diagnostics and therapies.
Ruth Weiner
ruthweiner@aol.com