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Is WIPP the best future we can provide for our children?
| Author | Concerned Citizens for Nuclear Safety |
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| Classification | 3.01.4.20/01 (UNITED STATES - WASTE - W.I.P.P. (WASTE ISOLATION PILOT PLANT) CARLSBAD) |
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What is WIPP? The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) near Carlsbad, New Mexico, is intended to serve as the nation's first nuclear waste dump for radioactive waste generated by the nuclear weapons production industry. The WIPP plan calls for radioactive weapons waste from ten sites across the U.S. to be shipped to New Mexico for burial in the salt beds at WIPP. Despite many critical safety issues surrounding WIPP, the Department of Energy (DOE) is working to emplace radioactive and hazardous waste at the site regardless of federal environmental laws and compliance with Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) standards. In addition to geological problems at the site, the questionable wisdom of trucking nuclear waste through 23 states, 26 Indian reservations, through major population centers, and past schools and homes has sparked public concern about WIPP. iQué es WIPP? La Planta Piloto Para el Aislamiento de Deshechos Nucleares (Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, WIPP), cerca de Carlsbad, Nuevo México se propone usar como el primer basurero del país, para deshechos radioactivos creados por la industria de armas nucleares. De acuerdo a lo planeado, WIPP recibirá deshechos de producción dearmas nucleares de 10 plantas. Tales deshechos serán enviados a través de los Estados Unidos para su entierro en las camaras de sal en WIPP. A pesar de muchos asuntos de seguridad que rodean a WIPP, el Departamento de Energía (DOE) está apurando el entierro de basura radioactiva y tóxica, ignorando las leyes federales del medio ambiente y su conformidad con las reglas establecidas por la Agencia de Protección del Medio-ambiente (EPA). Además de los problemas geológicos con WIPP, el público se ha comenzado a preocupar por el peligro que presenta el transporte de basura radioactiva a través de 23 estados, 26 reservaciones indígenas, ciudades mayores, escuelas y hogares hasta WIPP.
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