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Deadly Defense. Military radioactive landfills (1988)
| Auteur | Radioactive Waste Campaign |
| Datum | juni 1988 |
| Classificatie | 3.01.5.30/02 (VS - KERNWAPENFABRIEKEN EN SCHOONMAAK) |
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Uit de publicatie:
Introduction It is one of the great ironies of our age: in the name of protecting our national security and well-being, we are poisoning ourselves. Every day, government facilities involved in producing nuclear weapons spew toxic pollutants into our environment. Waste-laden liquids are discharged into streams and rivers, contamination from radioactive burial grounds leaches into drinking water supplies, and radioactive particles pour out of tall stacks and settle on nearby pastures and farmland. For a long time, a combination of bureaucratic double-speak and clever public relations has kept the problem out of public view. Only large "unintended releases" or the seemingly isolated "accidental spills" attracted much attention. But now it is becoming increasingly clear that this is not just a problem of isolated incidents or small complications at scattered locations. This is a serious health and environmental threat affecting every region of the country. Massive releases of radioactive pollution are endemic to the entire nuclear weapons production apparatus. And the health threat is very real. Untold numbers of Americans are being put at risk-not only those who work in the plants on a daily basis, but also the millions of people who live downwind or downstream from the weapons manufacturing facilities. The long-lived radioactive emissions also endanger future generations. Deadly Defense provides the first overall view of how the nuclear weapons production complex is poisoning us every day it operates. The book compiles detailed information about the principal bomb production sites, and includes a variety of graphics and maps to help make the information more useful. Deadly Defense opens with a historical look at U.S. nuclear weapons production, in Chapter 2. The origins and development of "the bomb" are discussed, and the changing administrative and regulatory context is examined. Chapter 2 also provides an overview of the current nuclear weapons production system and a discussion of military radioactive waste. Chapter 3 looks in detail at the weapons complex. Problems common to the 13 key production sites are summarized, and then each of the sites is carefully profiled. This chapter also examines some of the problems with transport of radioactive materials between the sites.
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