German radioactive waste approved for Tennessee

[AsahinaKimi]

This Feb. 27, 2009 photo provided by the U.S. Department of Energy's Carlsbad Field Office shows the arrival of the first remote-handled transuranic waste at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant near Carlsbad, N.M. (AP Photo/U.S. Department of Energy, Dirk Roberson)

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee (AP) -- Federal authorities have approved licenses allowing up to 1,000 tons of low-level radioactive waste from Germany to be brought to Oak Ridge, Tennessee, for incineration.

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission's decision has some environmental groups calling the plan unhealthy and a possible gateway for highly radioactive wastes to be reprocessed or recycled in East Tennessee's "Atomic City."

Don Safer, chairman of the Tennessee Environmental Council, told The Chattanooga Times Free Press that the Czech government turned away the waste and Utah did everything in its power to avoid receiving the ash left behind after incineration at Oak Ridge, forcing most of it to be shipped back to Germany.

EnergySolutions, a Utah-based multinational company that operates radioactive waste disposal facilities in Oak Ridge, said the process is safe when the proposal was introduced a few months ago.

http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/international/news/20110620p2g00m0in066000c.html

[BrklynLiberal]

1. I guess we do not have enough of our own..we have to import it.

:crazy: :crazy:

[whathehell]

2. WTF???

This is an outrage.

[enough]

3. +1 (nt)