Reply #49: Possibility?

[Horse with no Name]

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2005/05/28/shut_bases_could_get_nuclear_waste/
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WASHINGTON -- Closed military bases could become repositories for nuclear waste under a little-noticed section of a spending bill that was passed by the House this week, exacerbating the fears of local lawmakers who are fighting the scheduled closure of four of New England's biggest bases.
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The report language emphasizes the need to find interim sites for nuclear waste while the nation awaits the opening of a permanent nuclear waste repository. Yucca Mountain, in the Nevada desert, has been selected for permanent commercial nuclear waste disposal, but administrative and court actions have delayed the opening until at least 2012.
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Sites such as shut military bases and other federally owned lands would be more cost-effective as temporary nuclear waste sites than privately owned parcels since they are federally owned and have security systems in place, the report said. It did not recommend any bases by name or location, or indicate a preference between bases that have been closed and those facing closure.


I guess it is very possible that they are hauling nuclear waste out of one of the bases that may have been used as an interim site.
Perhaps they will be shuttling this stuff from base to base so that people won't catch on to what is going on.

On edit:
I am sure there would be provisions under the Patriot Act that would exclude the truckers from knowing what was being hauled. A case could be made that national security could be breached with the hijacking of one or more of these trucks.
The presence of nuclear waste would be an indicator of why they wouldn't want these guys exposed to the environment for too long of periods of time. The length of time could also be to ascertain that security wasn't breached. Who knows? With our secretive government, anything could be going on.:shrug: