1,000 TONS of Radioactive Material from GERMANY to be Shipped to Tennessee and Burned - July 2011

[DeSwiss]

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Audio News Report + Article Courtesy of NPR (National Public Radio) and Matt Shafer Powell:

"The city of Oak Ridge, Tenn., is anticipating the arrival of nearly 1,000 tons of nuclear waste from Germany. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission approved a plan in June for an American company to import and burn low-level nuclear waste from Germany.

Radioactive residue left over from the process will be sent back to Germany for disposal, but opponents have voiced concerns that the U.S. will become the world's radioactive waste processor. But, very little of that opposition is coming from Oak Ridge."

http://www.npr.org/2011/07/26/138478701/tennessee-awaits-tons-of-german-nuclear-waste
http://www.nrc.gov
http://www.energysolutions.com
http://local-oversight.org/

[arcane1]

1. That seems awfully inefficient to me

all the added costs (and dangers!) of shipping this stuff across the Atlantic twice!

[montanacowboy]

2. You can bet someone

is making $$ off of this ridiculously dangerous boondoggle. Do the people of TN know what they will be breathing in? have they been advised or is this jobs at any cost?

[DeSwiss]

6. Inefficient is the nuclear industry's middle name!

The nuclear industry can't exist on its own without heavy government subsidies and intervention. It is probably the most wasteful and idiotic endeavor humanity created in the modern era.

- And the irony of it all is, it is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpviMEfBm6g">very likely to be our undoing......

[AtheistCrusader]

20. Why is the oil refinery fire in your signature?

Doesn't make any sense, as the main captioned picture and small photo in the upper left are the reactor, but the great black plume in the upper right inset, is from the refinery that burned after the earthquake.

[enough]

3. Reminds me of the Garbage Barge of yore, plying the oceans looking for someplace

to dump the shit. This is what it means to be a third-world country. Except that here the deal is made in brightly-lit rooms with air conditioning.

[DeSwiss]

7. Larry Summers highly recommends dumping our crap in 3rd world countries......

"I think the economic logic behind dumping a load of toxic waste in the lowest wage country is impeccable and we should
face up to that."~http://www.whirledbank.org/ourwords/summers.html">Lawrence Summers, Chief economist of the World Bank in an internal memo, 12 December 1991

- People this morally deficient shouldn't be allowed to come close to working in our government. But for Obama, he was one of the first ones he picked.......

[arcane1]

9. Somalia has had to deal with that for years too :(

[DeSwiss]

12. I know, I know....

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2008/10/2008109174223218644.html">'Toxic waste' behind Somali piracy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lM7VCIuCXI">Radioactive and hazardous waste in Somalia shall be exposed




- We poison their waters so they can't feed themselves and then complain when they turn to piracy......

[Fearless]

4. Like sending our electronics to Chinese dumps.

Guess who's the dumping ground now! :banghead:

[DeSwiss]

11. And not just China....

Dumping crap on poorer countries is all the rage for every 1st World country:

http://vimeo.com/6063255
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBC-dWgElbI
http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=4586903n
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OR8WInWv5eQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkpBcFDjk7Y

- Whose gonna stop us???

[Fearless]

21. What goes around comes around I'm afraid.

[southmost]

5. so will this be our fate ?

to become the dumping ground for radiation waste,

I'm sure the tennessee teabaggers still believe in american exceptionalism even while they'll be glowing in the dark

[DeSwiss]

13. It IS our fate.

What we don't consume from the toxins put in our food we drink or breathe when it's dumped into the rivers and the air.

- The people running this world are killing us and they need to be stopped.

What civilization is, is 6 billion people trying to make themselves happy by standing on each other's shoulders and kicking each other's teeth in. It's not a pleasant situation. And yet, you can stand back and look at this planet and see that we have the money, the power, the medical understanding, the scientific know-how, the love and the community to produce a kind of human paradise. But we are led by the least among us - the least intelligent, the least noble, the least visionary. We are led by the least among us and we do not fight back against the dehumanizing values that are handed down as control icons.

This is something, culture is not your friend. Culture is for other people's convenience and the convenience of various institutions, churches, companies, tax collection schemes, what have you. It is not your friend. It insults you. It disempowers you. It uses and abuses you. None of us are well treated by culture.

Yet we glorify the creative potential of the individual, the rights of the individual. We understand the felt-presence of experience is what is most important. But the culture is a perversion. It fetishizes objects, creates consumer mania, it preaches endless forms of false happiness, endless forms of false understanding in the form of squirrelly religions and silly cults. It invites people to diminish themselves and dehumanize themselves by behaving like machines - meme processors of memes passed down from Madison Avenue and Hollywood...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYB0VW5x8fI&feature=player_embedded">~Terence McKenna

http://erocx1.blogspot.com/2007/12/terence-mckenna-culture-is-not-your.html

[swilton]

8. There goes Al Gore's state of Tennessee

Too bad!

[DeSwiss]

14. Mine too.

- Unfortunately. It's a long story....

[pam4water]

10. That is crazy.

[DeSwiss]

15. Crazy is what we do best. :-/ - n/t

[Frisbee]

16. Looks like the Obama administration is finally creating jobs! n/t

edited for crappy spelling.

[DeSwiss]

18. Jobs that mutate and kill living things. :-/ Sounds about right for these guys..... - n/t

[pam4water]

17. Burn in Fukushima or Chernobyl. It's all ready foobared there.

[DeSwiss]

19. And, and, and.....

...we can pay the terminally ill to do the burning since they're gonna die soon anyways!!! And best of all?, we're hiring the disabled!!!


- Yay. Win-win for everybody.....

{Posted for the irony & sarcasm-impaired}

[booley]

22. We need jobs

even if it kills us and destroys our planet and our souls.

I am sure anyone from Oak Ridge would defend this on that basis. It will create jobs.

Desperation makes lots of bad ideas seem good.