TN people
I don't normally pass this stuff on, but from the local Sierra chapter...
2. TENNESSEE RADIOACTIVE WASTE ALERT
Tennessee is blazing the way for nuclear waste processing importing
nuclear waste from across the country and around the world.
This waste is being burned, melted, physically and chemically processed,
and some is deregulated- allowed to go to regular trash disposal in the
state. The Tennessee Dept of Environment and Conservation (TDEC) under
Gov. Bredesen and his predecessors have and are licensing both nuclear
waste processors and solid waste dumps to bring nuclear waste into TN.
One of the biggest threats right now is EnergySolutions application to
the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is to import a million cubic
yards, 20,000 tons of nuclear waste from the defunct nuclear power
industry in ITALY. The waste would be processed in the TDEC-licensed
EnergySolutions nuclear incinerators, metal melter and other physical
and chemical radioactive facilities.
ACTIONS:
TN HOUSE RESOLUTION 349 (HR0349) Rep. Fincher et al would TELL THE NRC
to reject the EnergySolutions application to import/export Italys
nuclear power waste.
Call your REPS TO COSPONSOR< TO VOTE FOR< AND TO GET IT TO THE TN HOUSE
FLOOR BEFORE END OF SESSION!!!Call or email before FRI May 16.
ASK GOVERNOR BREDESEN TO OPPOSE THE IMPORT and to direct the Southeast
Compact Commissioners to VOTE NO to letting the waste into the Southeast
compact region. (The Northwest Compact did this very thing to keep the
waste from being disposed in Utah). phil.bredesen@ state.tn. us
COMMENT TO NRC AGAINST THE ENERGYSOLUTIONS PROPOSAL Comment to the US
Nuclear Regulatory Commission to say NO to License Applications Nos.
IW023 and XW013 (Federal Register Volume 73, Number 28, 2/11/08)
Send cc copies of your comments to your US Congress members and Senators
and to your TN State legislators.
Comment to NRC (secy@nrc.gov
) by June 10,
2008
On the federal level, SUPPORT US Representative Bart Gordons bill to
prohibit importing foreign nuclear waste to the US: HR 5632; Call or
email others in TN delegation to cosponsor and vote for the bill. It
will have a subcommittee hearing in Washington DC Tues May 20th.
Contact NIRS (dianed@nirs. org
) to join
requests for hearing(s) and to intervene.
Radioactive Waste in Tennessee: PROBLEM Background
1) EnergySolutions' wants to import to TN much of Italy's
radioactive waste. This amount is huge and it opens TN's door to
more US +foreign nuclear power and weapons waste.
Tennessee is targeted to receive 1 million cubic feet of nuclear waste
from Italy's closed nuclear power industry. The waste has been
stored there since the 1980s and earlier. EnergySolutions, one of
several nuclear waste processors in TN, has applied to the US NRC for
import/export licenses to import the waste under TDEC licenses R
73008-C14 TN RML, R-73016-A15 TN RML, R73006-F-13 TN RML and R-79171-L16
TN RML) burn, melt, chop, sort, and otherwise process in Memphis, Oak
Ridge and Kingston.
After processing the more concentrated waste would go to Utah.
Utah's governor has said he opposes this import.
A report on how hot the waste is was released by Institute for Energy
and Environmental Research (IEER) on Monday April 28, 2007.
2) TDEC Radiological Division has licensed numerous nuclear waste
processors in TN. Nuclear Waste is being incinerated and processed in TN
making the state a nuclear waste center. (At this point, TN is the only
state that commercially centralizes and incinerates nuclear power and
weapons waste.)
3) Nuclear Waste is going into regular landfills and possibly recycling
in the state. TDEC Solid Waste approved some of the refuse from
radioactive waste processing to go to solid waste landfills
(specifically N and S Shelby, Chestnut Ridge, Middle Point and Chestnut
Ridge). Some of the radioactivity (such as plutonium) is extremely
long-lasting.
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2. TENNESSEE RADIOACTIVE WASTE ALERT
Tennessee is blazing the way for nuclear waste processing importing
nuclear waste from across the country and around the world.
This waste is being burned, melted, physically and chemically processed,
and some is deregulated- allowed to go to regular trash disposal in the
state. The Tennessee Dept of Environment and Conservation (TDEC) under
Gov. Bredesen and his predecessors have and are licensing both nuclear
waste processors and solid waste dumps to bring nuclear waste into TN.
One of the biggest threats right now is EnergySolutions application to
the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is to import a million cubic
yards, 20,000 tons of nuclear waste from the defunct nuclear power
industry in ITALY. The waste would be processed in the TDEC-licensed
EnergySolutions nuclear incinerators, metal melter and other physical
and chemical radioactive facilities.
ACTIONS:
TN HOUSE RESOLUTION 349 (HR0349) Rep. Fincher et al would TELL THE NRC
to reject the EnergySolutions application to import/export Italys
nuclear power waste.
Call your REPS TO COSPONSOR< TO VOTE FOR< AND TO GET IT TO THE TN HOUSE
FLOOR BEFORE END OF SESSION!!!Call or email before FRI May 16.
ASK GOVERNOR BREDESEN TO OPPOSE THE IMPORT and to direct the Southeast
Compact Commissioners to VOTE NO to letting the waste into the Southeast
compact region. (The Northwest Compact did this very thing to keep the
waste from being disposed in Utah). phil.bredesen@ state.tn. us
COMMENT TO NRC AGAINST THE ENERGYSOLUTIONS PROPOSAL Comment to the US
Nuclear Regulatory Commission to say NO to License Applications Nos.
IW023 and XW013 (Federal Register Volume 73, Number 28, 2/11/08)
Send cc copies of your comments to your US Congress members and Senators
and to your TN State legislators.
Comment to NRC (secy@nrc.gov
) by June 10,
2008
On the federal level, SUPPORT US Representative Bart Gordons bill to
prohibit importing foreign nuclear waste to the US: HR 5632; Call or
email others in TN delegation to cosponsor and vote for the bill. It
will have a subcommittee hearing in Washington DC Tues May 20th.
Contact NIRS (dianed@nirs. org
) to join
requests for hearing(s) and to intervene.
Radioactive Waste in Tennessee: PROBLEM Background
1) EnergySolutions' wants to import to TN much of Italy's
radioactive waste. This amount is huge and it opens TN's door to
more US +foreign nuclear power and weapons waste.
Tennessee is targeted to receive 1 million cubic feet of nuclear waste
from Italy's closed nuclear power industry. The waste has been
stored there since the 1980s and earlier. EnergySolutions, one of
several nuclear waste processors in TN, has applied to the US NRC for
import/export licenses to import the waste under TDEC licenses R
73008-C14 TN RML, R-73016-A15 TN RML, R73006-F-13 TN RML and R-79171-L16
TN RML) burn, melt, chop, sort, and otherwise process in Memphis, Oak
Ridge and Kingston.
After processing the more concentrated waste would go to Utah.
Utah's governor has said he opposes this import.
A report on how hot the waste is was released by Institute for Energy
and Environmental Research (IEER) on Monday April 28, 2007.
2) TDEC Radiological Division has licensed numerous nuclear waste
processors in TN. Nuclear Waste is being incinerated and processed in TN
making the state a nuclear waste center. (At this point, TN is the only
state that commercially centralizes and incinerates nuclear power and
weapons waste.)
3) Nuclear Waste is going into regular landfills and possibly recycling
in the state. TDEC Solid Waste approved some of the refuse from
radioactive waste processing to go to solid waste landfills
(specifically N and S Shelby, Chestnut Ridge, Middle Point and Chestnut
Ridge). Some of the radioactivity (such as plutonium) is extremely
long-lasting.
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