Re: Article: Report targets nuclear dump (SRS)

["Jim Hardeman" <Jim_Hardeman@dnr.state.ga.us>]

Bill ?



Good point.



Here's my analogy ... you certainly remember the TV show "Laugh In" ... and you remember the character that Lily Tomlin played ... Earnestine the telephone operator. Remember one of her taglines? "We're the phone company. We don't have to care."



Enough said on my part. I agree with your point about DOE's track record. My daughters said the same thing (we don't need any oversight) when they were in their teens too ... but since they didn't provide the funding necessary for the oversight, they weren't in a position to stop it, fortunately both for me and them.



Jim



>>> William V Lipton <liptonw@dteenergy.com> 3/15/2004 11:56:27 >>>

Given DOE's track record, I am skeptical of your assertion that DOE does not

need independent monitoring.  The burden of proof should be on DOE, not on

those potentially impacted by its practices.



Wait, I have a better idea.  We spend big $$ for our state police agencies

to enforce motor vehicle laws.  Why don't we just make each driver

responsible for his own enforcement?



The opinions expressed are strictly mine.

It's not about dose, it's about trust.

Curies forever.



Bill Lipton

liptonw@dteenergy.com 





Rick Orthen wrote:



> Jim--With all due respect to you and the GA DNR, do you really believe

> you could continue to receive grants to perform what is in fact

> redundant environmental monitoring?  If you or the State is truly

> concerned that an unmonitored threat to human health exists across your

> borders, it is incumbent upon you to (1) present an objective and

> factual case to the DOE for them to acknowledge, and (2) legislate the

> necessary funds to maintain a "confirmatory" EMP should DOE not act to

> your liking (or you want to independently safeguard the citizenship).  I

> don't recall exactly the role Georgia played in stopping DOE's legacy

> practice of disposing tritiated waste water directly to "soil columns"

> as a quasi-ALARA measure, but I'm sure that role was influential.  It is

> also a good example of how oversight can be a results-oriented pursuit.

> However, those heady production days are long gone and the pursuit is

> difficult to latch now (but it seems the USGS remains enamored with

> thoughts of a plume traveling beneath the Savannah River).

>

> Many organizations other than yours and the USGS are "fighting tooth and

> nail" to retain funding for their enterprises.  The successful ones will

> recognize early that the rules of the risk-chase have changed (again).

>

> Regarding the saltstone vault/HLW tank grout inventories you quote, what

> were the performance assessment results?  Those would add the necessary

> perspective.

>

> Rick

>

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