Letter from New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson and NM attorney general protesting NRC’s decision to conduct LES hearings in a closed fashion. Richardson threatens to withdraw state support for the project.
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Letter from New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson and NM attorney general protesting NRC’s decision to conduct LES hearings in a closed fashion. Richardson threatens to withdraw state support for the project.
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Information on the shipment of high-level radioactive waste through Takoma Park, Maryland, The U.S. Department of Energy has targeted Takoma Park as a transportation route for high-level radioactive waste (HLRW) bound for its proposed national dump-site at Yucca Mountain, Nevada. The CSX railway, immediately next to the Takoma Metro Station, would carry up to nearly 2,000 “truck” containers (truck-sized containers loaded “piggy-back” upon train cars) and/or over 300 much larger “train” containers, of HLRW through town. A single accident or terrorist attack could release catastrophic amounts of radioactivity. Because the waste is so radioactive, emanating gamma radiation like a mobile x-ray machine that cannot be turned off, even “routine,” accident-free shipments would still deliver a potentially harmful radiation dose to innocent bystanders.
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Costs and Risks of Management and Disposal of Depleted Uranium from the National Enrichment Facility Proposed to be Built in Lea County New Mexico by LES. Report by Arjun Makhijani, PhD. and Brice Smith, Ph.D., Institute for Energy and Environmental Research.
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