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Old 01-04-2011, 08:23 PM
 
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Commission lets 36 states dump nuke waste in Texas

Commission lets 36 states dump nuke waste in Texas - Yahoo! Finance (http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Commission-lets-36-states-apf-1265840543.html?x=0&sec=topStories&pos=main&asset= &ccode= - broken link)

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Old 01-04-2011, 08:43 PM
 
Location: Kaufman County, Texas
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Nothing.
1. It's in Andrews, TX which is in the middle of nowhere.
2. It's low-level waste, which is things like contaminated tools, old medical equipment, etc.
3. It is a professionally-manged facility, not Bubba dumping stuff in a dry creek bed.
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Old 01-04-2011, 09:04 PM
 
Location: Dallas, TX
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Well, the 10,000 residents of Andrews might disagree with you. More precisely, it's 15-20 miles west of Andrews, which really IS the middle of nowhere, by design.

You know, this stuff (for example, contaminated syringes, towels, etc. from radiation treatments administered at hospitals, both here and in other states) has to go SOMEWHERE. This is as good a place as any, and better than most.
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Old 01-05-2011, 02:36 PM
 
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Nothing.
1. It's in Andrews, TX which is in the middle of nowhere.
2. It's low-level waste, which is things like contaminated tools, old medical equipment, etc.
3. It is a professionally-manged facility, not Bubba dumping stuff in a dry creek bed.
I trust Bubba dumping stuff in a dry creek bed over a professionally managed facility any day.
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Old 01-05-2011, 02:39 PM
 
Location: Chicago
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At least I know where I'm supposed to move to now if I ever want superpowers.
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Old 01-05-2011, 02:40 PM
 
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Well, the 10,000 residents of Andrews might disagree with you. More precisely, it's 15-20 miles west of Andrews, which really IS the middle of nowhere, by design.

You know, this stuff (for example, contaminated syringes, towels, etc. from radiation treatments administered at hospitals, both here and in other states) has to go SOMEWHERE. This is as good a place as any, and better than most.
Like my daddy use to tell me, if the stuff is good enough to cause cancer to happen in a Californian, then it just has to be good enough to add to your automobile.
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Old 01-05-2011, 02:50 PM
 
Location: Denver
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My issue is that it's low level radioactive waste being dumped over one of the largest aquifers in the world. Radioactive waste + permeable rock = contaminated water.
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Old 01-05-2011, 02:54 PM
 
Location: North Texas
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A Texas commission approved rules on Tuesday that pave the way for 36 states to export low-level radioactive waste to a remote landfill along the Texas-New Mexico border.....will that keep illegals away?
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Old 01-05-2011, 03:54 PM
 
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My issue is that it's low level radioactive waste being dumped over one of the largest aquifers in the world. Radioactive waste + permeable rock = contaminated water.
We can either go the capitalist way of exploitation or the Chinese socialist way. In communist China, they would execute anyone who contaminates water with radioactive waste.
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