Yesterday, I spent about an hour reading a committee report to Senator Inhofe (R-OK) from March 2006 on the Yucca Mountain Nuclear repository. Among other things, as I listen to people complain about the oil 'gushing' into the ocean, I find some of the comments from this report interesting and illustrative.
The report establishes 'acceptable' exposure levels to radiation at 15 mREM/year. They have had to go to a great degree of effort to show that their preparations mitigate any damage to the people, yet the report shows that the EPA gerrymandered the boundaries (see figure on page 6 of the report) so that the aquifer would dilute the flow of radionucleotides into the population.
Now, as we consider that, the present administration refuses to consider the dilution of oil particles in the gulf of mexico. I heard yesterday that if you dilute the oil into the Gulf waters alone, it would mean something like 1/1 millionth of an ounce of oil in a bathtub full of water. Yet, despite that scale, the administration conflagrates the problem and makes it sound like a big deal.
The danger comes in the form of delivery. Oil is a big deal on land, and nuclear waste is a big deal in water.
I love how there is a double standard applied by this administration to dilution when they held the previous administration to such stringent restrictions.
Not that I want nuclear waste in Nevada, but this report makes it sound like it's coming ashore, whether we want it or not.
The report establishes 'acceptable' exposure levels to radiation at 15 mREM/year. They have had to go to a great degree of effort to show that their preparations mitigate any damage to the people, yet the report shows that the EPA gerrymandered the boundaries (see figure on page 6 of the report) so that the aquifer would dilute the flow of radionucleotides into the population.
Now, as we consider that, the present administration refuses to consider the dilution of oil particles in the gulf of mexico. I heard yesterday that if you dilute the oil into the Gulf waters alone, it would mean something like 1/1 millionth of an ounce of oil in a bathtub full of water. Yet, despite that scale, the administration conflagrates the problem and makes it sound like a big deal.
The danger comes in the form of delivery. Oil is a big deal on land, and nuclear waste is a big deal in water.
I love how there is a double standard applied by this administration to dilution when they held the previous administration to such stringent restrictions.
Not that I want nuclear waste in Nevada, but this report makes it sound like it's coming ashore, whether we want it or not.
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