The
NRC is proposing a reinterpretation its
longstanding rules, without due process, to do
away with the age-old requirement for a company
to have a license to handle radioactive
materials before they take nuclear waste—waste
that can be dangerous for decades, centuries,
or, in some cases, literally millions of years.
The NRC’s VLLW plan doesn't have any verifiable
or enforceable limits, nor does it have any
provision for public notification or legal
intervention.
The
US NRC, Department of Energy, Department of
Transportation, and Environmental Protection
Agency have tried over a dozen times already to
release nuclear waste from controls. And the
public has stopped almost every effort.
This
new push for VLLW is the latest attempt to
remove protections for the public against
exposure to nuclear waste by pretending it is
safe. And, once more, it is up to the public to
stop it again.
Tell the NRC and your senators you
say NO to VLLW and deregulation of nuclear
waste.
This
time the Very Large Lie about nuclear Waste is
the false claim by NRC that it is very low level
(VLLW). It's NOT.
The
main motive is to make it cheaper to
decommission shut down nuclear power reactors by
letting the bulk of the radioactive buildings,
soil, components and other parts go to regular
trash or hazardous landfills instead of one of
the four licensed nuclear waste sites in the
country.
Many
nuclear waste companies, state nuclear
regulators, and nuclear waste compact officials
who are strong nuclear power supporters are
opposing this VLLW plan because it radically
changes the rules after decades. Public interest
groups watchdogging nuclear waste would like
even stronger controls, but we are in agreement
with these officials that this VLLW plan of NRC
is a no go.
As
the nearly 100 nuclear power reactors close in
the decade to come, their owners want to save
money by dumping thousands of tons of
radioactive garbage--concrete, metal, soil,
asphalt, equipment, pumps, pipes, plastics and
more--by pretending it is not radioactive. Don't
let them get away with it. Tell the NRC and your senators you
say NO to VLLW and deregulation of nuclear
waste
Thanks
for all you do,
The
NIRS Team
Diane
D'Arrigo Luis Hestres Denise
Jakobsberg Tim Judson
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