[ RadSafe ] And so the NIMBY posturing begins ...

[John Jacobus]

All based on rumors.

--- Jim Hardeman <Jim.Hardeman at dnr.state.ga.us> wrote:

> URL =
>
http://pressherald.mainetoday.com/news/state/050601nuclear.shtml
> 
> Jim Hardeman
> Jim_Hardeman at dnr.state.ga.us
> 
> =============
> 
> Lawmakers deny 'crazy' nuclear waste dump rumor 
> 
> By JEN FISH , Portland Press Herald Writer 
> Copyright © 2005 Blethen Maine Newspapers Inc. 
> 
>   
> Members of Maine's congressional delegation said
> Tuesday there is no chance that the state's military
> bases, if closed, could become nuclear waste
> repositories. 
> That possibility began circulating several days ago
> after the U.S. House of Representatives passed a
> spending bill for energy and water development.
> Tucked in the bill is $15.5 million in funding for
> reprocessing nuclear waste from power plants and
> building an interim nuclear waste dump. 
> The actual bill does not specify where the temporary
> dump would be, but a report attached to the bill
> suggests the Department of Energy investigate other
> federally owned sites, including closed military
> bases.
. . .

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Hugh Blair, 1783

-- John
John Jacobus, MS
Certified Health Physicist
e-mail:  crispy_bird at yahoo.com


		
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