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Believe it or not, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC)
is still planning an even more dangerous and misleading
change to the way nuclear power radioactive waste is
handled.
The NRC has invented a new and deceptive name for nuclear
power waste, calling it “Very Low Level,” or VLLW. The fact is
that VLLW is not only Very Long-Lasting Waste, but also
extremely dangerous to human health and the environment.
Despite the dangerous nature of VLLW, the NRC wants to
authorize regular landfill operators to dispose of radioactive
waste. This would almost certainly result in nuclear waste
leaks into our water, air, crops, and communities.
We need to flood the NRC with comments against this
dangerous deregulation of nuclear waste. The deadline for
comments to the NRC is less than a month away. Tell
the NRC and your members of Congress: No dumping radioactive
waste into our landfills.
There’s no such thing as a safe level of radioactivity. The
NRC claims only very "low levels" of radioactive waste will be
disposed of with regular trash, but there is no safe level and
the level they propose is actually higher than licensed dumps.
At the proposed level, 1 in every 500 people will get cancer
if exposed over their lifetimes.
The NRC is also taking this action behind the backs of the
American people, under the cover of the Covid-19 crisis. Their
proposal would allow regular trash landfills to start taking
nuclear waste without their surrounding communities knowing or
having input. This is simply unacceptable.
Powerful players in the nuclear industry are pushing for
this change, and the NRC may give them what they want unless
we stop them. The deadline for comments to the NRC is less
than a month away. Tell
the NRC and your members of Congress: No dumping radioactive
waste into our landfills.
We’ll have more updates about this important issue soon. In
the meantime, we hope you’re staying healthy and safe.
Thanks for all you do,
The NIRS Team
Diane D'Arrigo
Luis Hestres
Denise Jakobsberg
Tim
Judson
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