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Living Without Landfills (1987)
| Auteur | Radioactive Waste Campaign |
| Datum | 1987 |
| Classificatie | 3.01.4.10/45 (VS - AFVAL) |
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Uit de publicatie:
Introduction The "low-level" waste issue is hot. Battle lines are forming across the country. As the federally-mandated deadline for choosing states to host waste facilities draws near, state legislatures, spurred on by citizen activism, have become edgy. Even when states are not selected, but just in the running, citizen concern has become a powerful force. In the central part of the country, for example, 109 of the 148 sites being considered as possible locations for a waste facility are in Kansas. The news was enough to have North Central Kansas Citizens turn out 6,000 angry people at a March 1987 hearing in the town of Beloit (population 4,300). And at a hearing later that month before the Kansas Senate Subcommittee on Energy and Natural Resources, the group's president, 36-year-old housewife Laura Menhusen, did not mince words: "This will be the most important issue you will ever face in your lifetime." Menhusen had never before been involved in political activity (Russell, 1987). In New Jersey, the Department of Environmental Protection proposed that earth contaminated with radium and other long-lived radionuclides be dug from near people's homes in Montclair and transferred to Vernon, near the New York border. The town of Vernon has a population of less than 500, but a summer rally to oppose the planned transfer drew 5,000 friends and neighbors. Protests in the state capital, Trenton, and at the governor's mansion, drew 1,000 citizens each. Mild-mannered, law-abiding citizens were ready to lie down in the streets to prevent their neighborhoods from being defiled. As a result, the Department of Environmental Protection withdrew its plans and set up an advisory committee to determine where about 200 curies of contaminated dirt should go. Citizens are urging the state to store the radium soil at McGuire Air Force Base, on a concrete pad where a 1963 Bomarc missile explosion spewed plutonium over an 11-acre area. The state has so far refused to consider this option, even though it is likely no community will accept this radioactive waste. The question arises-if New jersey cannot find a home for 200 curies, how will it (or any other state) find a place for many times that amount of "low-level" waste?
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