April 16, 2013, makes a full year since my last post. Not too consistent, am I? I think I had a case of information overload. So many platforms for expression now...
As reported last month by John Daly, blogger at OilPrice.com, a former Manhattan Project nuclear plant is leaking "highly toxic sludge," which we are told is going to be removed and shipped to some site in Nevada? No doubt on or near an Indian reservation.
By highly toxic sludge, I think they mean radioactive waste. Oh, and guess who gets to pay for it? Taxpayers.
Jay Inslee, Governor of Washington, called the mess at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation a “perfect radioactive storm.”
It turns out that the site has been leaking millions of gallons of radioactive waste into the ground water near the Columbia River for decades. But don't worry because the Department of Energy assumed responsibility for safely disposing the waste in 1989. Now the department is saying the cost for cleaning up this mess amounts to $114.8 BILLION. Tough luck for a state facing mandatory budget cuts.
Obviously the average taxpayer will foot the bill, while corporations contracted for the clean up will receive the billions.
When the so-called "toxic sludge" that we know is highly radioactive is being transported across states, what guaranty is there that no accidents will happen along the way?
This is why nuclear energy is unsustainable and will most likely be the end of US.
If you're still not convinced, check out some recent findings regarding the record radiation found in fish near Fukushima nuclear plant on RT.com.
