ALERTS!!!!

“The number of children and grandchildren with cancer in their bones, with leukemia in their blood, or with poison in their lungs might seem statistically small to some, in comparison with natural health hazards. But this is not a natural health hazard—and it is not a statistical issue. The loss of even one human life, or the malformation of even one baby—who may be born long after we are gone—should be of concern to us all. Our children and grandchildren are not merely statistics toward which we can be indifferent.”

John F. Kennedy, July 26th, 1963

Sunday, December 1, 2013

The $38 billion nuclear waste fiasco

The $38 billion nuclear waste fiasco

Doing nothing often has a cost — and when it comes to storing the nation’s nuclear waste, the price is $38 billion and rising.
That’s just the low-ball estimate for how much taxpayers will wind up spending because of the government’s decades of dithering about how to handle the radioactive leftovers sitting at dozens of sites in 38 states. The final price will be higher unless the government starts collecting the waste by 2020, which almost nobody who tracks the issue expects.

NOTE: Japan has no program to dispose of the waste from their fifty plus nuclear reactors. This is why there is hundreds of tons of waste sitting all around Japan (and the US) out in the open air. Japan is the size of California. Space is a supreme issue. Each ounce of stored nuclear waste has the possibility of going critical at any moment if it is not kept cool and out of the open air. This article represents the financial cost of doing nothing but there is a potential human toll to be paid as well.
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