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Old 05-09-2008, 02:26 PM
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Know anyone who lives in Idaho? You might want to let them know this is happening as this waste will not break down for millions of years...

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Southwest Idaho company making millions by accepting toxic waste

By Cynthia Sewell, The Idaho Statesman
May 8th 2008


Railcars loaded with 6,700 tons of radioactive waste will roll across the Treasure Valley this week, the cargo destined for a remote site south of Boise on a sagebrush-dotted plateau near the Snake River.

And it won't be the first time.

This scenario has occurred regularly over the past several years. The site Idaho's only public hazardous waste dump has received more than 1 million tons of radioactive materials from the federal government during the past five years.

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The shipment now en route to Idaho is from Kuwait.

In 1991, a fire at the U.S. Army Camp Doha ignited military vehicles and munitions containing depleted uranium used in armor-piercing shells. The shell fragments were removed and disposed in the United States by the U.S. Army in 2005. This incoming shipment contains the remaining 6,700 tons of lightly contaminated soil the fragments were removed from.

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With all the deserts they have over there, why is this stuff being transported here?
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Maybe we intend to recycle it and reuse it, so this is one way to get it at discount prices (maybe I'm being optimistic).
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All waste at one point were designated for Yucca Mountain where there are abandoned deep tunnels. The intention was to make wastes into a ceramic and then bury it. But even in the Nevada desert, the locals don't want the world's nuke waste in their backyard. Transporting it to the site is an issue that won't go away.
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You might want to let them know this is happening as this waste will not break down for millions of years...
That's the drawback to nuclear energy. The waste material will be dangerously radioactive for . . . almost forever. If only the scientists could figure out how to deal with that problem; it's the main reason I have reservations about this form of energy.

And I'd definitely fight having a nuclear waste dump "in my backyard."
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Maybe we intend to recycle it and reuse it, so this is one way to get it at discount prices (maybe I'm being optimistic).
they're going to bury it... hardly recycling or reusing...
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All waste at one point were designated for Yucca Mountain where there are abandoned deep tunnels. The intention was to make wastes into a ceramic and then bury it. But even in the Nevada desert, the locals don't want the world's nuke waste in their backyard. Transporting it to the site is an issue that won't go away.
true, Michael... I believe also that there is an earthquake fault running under yucca mountain and that has been cited as one of the reasons they don't want it there... would you want a ticking nuclear timebomb near your home? I sure as hell wouldn't...

apparently, Idahoans don't care... or perhaps they are just unaware that this is happening in their state...
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That's the drawback to nuclear energy. The waste material will be dangerously radioactive for . . . almost forever. If only the scientists could figure out how to deal with that problem; it's the main reason I have reservations about this form of energy.

And I'd definitely fight having a nuclear waste dump "in my backyard."
me too, Birdz... me too... but I don't have to worry about that here in the SF Bay Area... The rad labs... yes, nuke waste storage... no.
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