10 million pounds of toxic waste to burn

Knoxville News Sentinel by Frank Munger | Jan. 3, 2007 (News Report)
DOE gets OK to bring in loads from outside state

Before closing its Oak Ridge incinerator for good, the U.S. Department of Energy plans to burn more than 10 million pounds of toxic waste in the next three years.
State environmental officers have given their preliminary blessing to the plan, which would bring wastes to Oak Ridge from at least 11 facilities outside Tennessee.
The biggest loads would come from a former uranium-enrichment facility in Ohio and apparently would include tons of oils ... Full Story »

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Topics: Pollution, Bush Administration
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Posted by: Posted by Melva Hackney - Jan 3, 2007 - 8:14 AM PST
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 by Marty Heyman - Oct. 1, 2008

This is a very important issue. The story apparently works from material available in the filings and reports from the approvers and agency. There's no counterbalancing discussion of risks or historical problems (if any ... not even a ringing statement of how well the program's worked to date). It's all about the permitting process. And there's also no bigger reporting of how much of this waste the DOE and other agencies have to take care of in monster locations like Rocky Flats and Hanford.

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Melva Hackney
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 by Melva Hackney - Oct. 1, 2008

How many millions? will be impacted by this?

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