The Great Lakes Zephyr - Wind Energy & Hydrogen Journal

From GRACE:

Stop the Department of Energy's (DOE) attempt to change the Nuclear Waste Policy Act!

The change in the law would allow the DOE to stop clean up at nuclear waste sites around the country, and to reclassify High-Level Waste as Low-Level Waste, and leave this material in leaking tanks at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina, and in New York, Washington, and Idaho.

Failure to clean up the tanks will lead to severe and long-lasting pollution of our nation's important rivers and aquifers, which provide drinking water, as well as water for fish and crops that feed millions of people nationwide.

TAKE ACTION:
Tell your senators to vote for amendments to remove the harmful nuclear waste provisions in the Defense Authorization bill.

CONTACT INFORMATION:
You can email or fax your senators directly at http://www.nrdc.org/action/.
If you prefer to call your senators, the Capitol switchboard number is 202-224-3121
(or toll-free at 800-839-5276).

FOR MORE INFORMATION:
http://www.ananuclear.org/ and http://www.nrdc.org/

BACKGROUND:
The Senate will begin debating the FY05 Defense Authorization bill next week (May 17). The bill currently contains language that would allow the Department of Energy (DOE) to abandon potentially millions of gallons of highly toxic radioactive waste in rusting tanks next to the Savannah River in South Carolina, endangering human populations for thousands of years. Funding for cleanup at other key sites with high level waste (Hanford, WA and Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory) is being held until those states agree to a similar measure. The DOE wants the exemption so it can cement the wastes in place as part of its accelerated cleanup strategy to “finish” cleanup early and save billions. Doing so, however, would create massive high level waste dumps at these sites and threaten future generations with severe contamination.


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For more Nuclear Abolition action alerts, go to: http://www.gracepublicfund.org/nuclear/