“Our research shows that the U.S. Army at Fort Greely is responsible for extensive radioactive contamination through: 1) control rod accident—a near melt-down event in 1967 exposed workers to harmful levels of radiation; 2) radioactive steam heat to the post; 3) liquid radioactive waste discharged to groundwater and Jarvis Creek; 4) radioactive fallout; 5) solid radioactive waste disposal; and 6) long-lived radioactivity in the reactor still remaining on Fort Greely.”
-Alaska Community Action on Toxics
1. How does a part failure that they admit had no effect on the environment have an effect on the environment?
2. The steam was produced by passing water over a heat exchanger. That water never had anything to do with the reactor and was consequently (guess what) not radioactive.
3. I assume that by “liquid radioactive waste” they mean tritiated water, which is approximately sixty times less radioactive than orange juice. Nuclear power plants do not produce liquid nuclear waste; nuclear waste is ceramic or metal pellets.
4. Fallout from what? Are they detonating nuclear bombs at this site?
5. The aforementioned pellets are stored onsite. They haven’t been “disposed” anywhere.
6. If it’s inside the reactor, it’s not outside, is it? And if it’s not outside, how is it contaminating anything?
Filed under Anti-Nuclear Quote of the Day, Environment, Safety, Waste
Posted on September 27, 2006 by Stewart Peterson |
