January 23, 2013
The Energy Department's Crazy Plan for Radioactive Scrap
Nuclear Weapons Waste in Your Water Bottle, Hip Replacement, Baby?s Toys, Jungle Gym?
by JOHN LaFORGE
Even the deregulation-happy Wall St. Journal sounded shocked: ?The Department of Energy is proposing to allow the sale of tons of scrap metal from government nuclear sites ? an attempt to reduce waste that critics say could lead to radiation-tainted belt buckles, surgical implants and other consumer products.?
Having failed in the ?80s and ?90s to free the nuclear bomb factories and national laboratories of millions of tons of their radioactively contaminated scrap and nickel, the DOE is trying again. Its latest proposal is moving ahead without even an Environmental Impact Statement.
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You can tell the DOE to continue to keep its radioactive metal out of the commercial metal supply, commerce, and our personal items. You can demand a full environmental impact statement.
Comment deadline is Feb. 9, 2013. Email to:
scrap_PEAcomments@hq.doe.gov (with an underscore after ?scrap_?). Snail mail to: Jane Summerson / DOE NNSA / PO Box 5400, Bldg. 401K. AFB East / Albuquerque, New Mexico 87185
