And now:Ish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Source: <A HREF="http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,30012327,00.html?"> http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,30012327,00.html? ======================================================= February 22, 1999 Nuclear waste is not safe Don A. Campbell, in his Feb. 8 letter, says he spent five years at the Hanford, Wash., nuclear waste site learning how to protect people from the effects of nuclear radiation. Whatever safety lessons they gave him at Hanford were apparently lost on those in charge there. I lived a few miles down the road from Hanford, in Richland, Wash., for five years in the 1970s. Among other things while I was there, Hanford had 100,000 gallons of high-level nuclear waste leak onto the ground and into the groundwater, a plutonium settling pond reached 99.999 percent critical before it was noticed, and one winter night the cold water tap in my apartment ran hot all night because of nuclear waste pouring into the Columbia River. After nearly 50 years, widespread nuclear waste contamination of the air, ground and water at Hanford has come to a halt because whistleblowers finally got officials in Washington, D.C., to listen. Cleaning up the mess will cost us taxpayers at least $50 billion over 75 years. It is all documented in the book, "Atomic Harvest," by Michael D'Antonio, Crown Publishers, and "Hanford's Nuclear Wasteland," by Glenn Zorpette in Scientific American magazine, May 1996. A brief wire news story in the Deseret News a few weeks ago reported that officials at Hanford are now concerned about radioactive tumbleweeds blowing around the area. Other stories in recent years have described the problems there of radioactive insects, small animals and birds. Hanford is on a migration route for many birds that occasionally stop there. Nuclear experts told the people of Washington for decades that there was no danger to the public from the radioactive waste at Hanford. They lied. Now they or their colleagues are saying that nuclear waste in Utah will be safe for us. We have no reason to believe them. George F. Hamilton Centerville ====================================================== ------------------------------------------------------------------------ New hobbies? New interests? Sign up for a new ONElist community. http://www.onelist.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------ DOEWatch List --- Subscribe online: http://www.onelist.com/subscribe.cgi/doewatch Quote from Truman's diary July 25, 1945: "We have discovered the most terrible bomb in the history of the world. It may be the fire destruction prophesized in the Euphrates Valley Era, after Noah and his fabulous Ark. Anyway we think we have found the way to cause the disintegration of the atom." "The Doctor of the future will give No Medicine, but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease." -Attributed to Thomas Alva Edison &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& Tsonkwadiyonrat (We are ONE Spirit) Unenh onhwa' Awayaton http://www.tdi.net/ishgooda/ &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&
