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Wednesday, February 1
Reprocessing Is Not the “Solution” to the Nuclear Waste Problem
by
Caroline Vernon
on Wed 01 Feb 2006 04:01 PM CST
 Reprocessing Is Not the “Solution”
to the Nuclear Waste Problem
Nuclear Information and Resource Service
This program is central to the Bush administration’s efforts to jump-start the moribund nuclear power industry.
Statement of Mary Olson, NIRS Campaign to Stop Reprocessing. Director of NIRS southeast office:
“[George W.] Bush’s misguided obsession with nuclear power has reached a critical and dangerous juncture. The administration has been desperate to find a nuclear waste solution in order to resuscitate the moribund and unpopular nuclear power industry by moving forward quickly on the scientifically-flawed Yucca Mountain waste dump in Nevada. Instead it has found itself spinning its wheels in the mire of Yucca Mountain’s geologic instability and the scandal of covering up these data. Faced with an industry impatient to move its on-site waste, the administration is now clutching at a new nuclear straw."
“Its latest scheme is reprocessing of irradiated commercial fuel, one of the dirtiest and most proliferation-vulnerable processes in the nuclear fuel chain. Abandoned in this country for more than 30 years, countries where it has been done – including Britain, France and Russia – are now reaping its hideous environmental legacy of contamination and disease."
“The price tag in dollars – as well as in health impacts – will be enormous if this country is allowed to venture back down the reprocessing road. The only U.S. commercial reprocessing site ever to operate - in West Valley, New York – is projected to cost more than $5 billion to clean up despite reprocessing only a fraction of the waste sent there between 1966 and 1972. Now Congress has awarded the U.S. Department of Energy $50 million of our money to set this debacle in motion once again although the totals are likely to reach the hundreds of billions of dollars."
“The existing nuclear reactors around the globe are already sitting-duck terrorist targets. Separating plutonium from nuclear power waste fuel – as reprocessing does – simply sets up new and inviting opportunities for terrorists to seize fissile, bomb-capable materials. Support for a reprocessing program makes a mockery of statements coming out of this administration that protecting the American people from terrorism is paramount. Instead, it will put more Americans in harm’s way.”
Reprocessing Is Not the “Solution” to the Nuclear Waste Problem
The Radioactive Waste Burden
Splitting atoms to make electricity has created an enormous problem: waste containing 95% of the toxic radioactivity produced during the Atomic Age. Nuclear weapons production, industrial activity, research and medicine combined, create only 5% of this problem.
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Blog for Iowa Joins PETA in Demanding Patty Judge Return Slaughterhouse Donation
by
Linda Thieman
on Wed 01 Feb 2006 04:00 AM CST
 Blog for Iowa Joins PETA in Demanding Patty Judge Return Slaughterhouse Donation
Secretary of Agriculture Judge Accepted Donation from Owner of Slaughterhouse Under Federal Investigation
Today, Blog for Iowa joins People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals
(PETA) in calling on Iowa Secretary of Agriculture and gubernatorial
candidate Patty Judge (D) to return the $10,000 that she recently
received from the Rubashkin family, whose massive slaughterhouse,
AgriProcessors, is currently being sued by the Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA) for violating the Clean Water Act.
Even
worse, AgriProcessors is also under investigation by the U.S.
Department of Agriculture (USDA) for violations of the Humane Slaughter
Act — documented at the Postville, Iowa, supposedly-kosher
slaughterhouse in 2004 on videotape by a PETA undercover
investigator. Former USDA kosher slaughterhouse inspector Dr.
Lester Friedlander called the revelation “the most egregious violation
of the USDA Humane Methods of Slaughter Act (HMSA) I have ever
witnessed.” PETA attorneys believe that AgriProcessors violated
multiple Iowa laws against cruelty to animals and inhumane slaughter
consistently over many years and on a daily basis.
This just makes me wretch. If you know anything at all about the Laws of Kashrut,
you know that a kosher slaughterhouse is supposed to have the highest
of possible standards for the humane treatment of animals, even beyond
the law of the land. Why this inhumane slaughter has gone on for
so long since coming to light is unfathomable. And why would
Judge, as a gubernatorial candidate, accept a donation from such an
operation when she herself has known about these violations (and has
actually viewed the videotape, according to the Globe Gazette) since December, 2004?
For
Secretary of Agriculture Patty Judge to accept a donation from the
Rubashkin family, who are appropriately in much legal and ethical hot water,
is clearly a conflict of interest and a moral disgrace. Blog for
Iowa calls on Sec. Judge to return the donation at once.
Add your voice - email Patty Judge here: contact@pattyjudge.com
For more information, visit PETA’s website: GoVeg.com/feat/AgriProcessors.
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