28 juillet 2012
Dénonciation d’un membre du congrès au sujet de la centrale de Limerick : alors que le site n’a jamais été conçu pour cela, des tonnes de déchets radioactifs s’accumulent sur le site en bordure de fleuve. Comme dans le reste de l’Amérique, des millions de personnes vivent dans le périmètre d’une menace constitué par ces stockages improvisés de combustible d’uranium usé.
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Congress July 28, 2012 By : Robert Tilford
People leisurely paddle past Limerick nuclear power station in Pennsylvania oblivious to the danger posed by the estimated 1143 metric tons of uranium spent fuel stored here...
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Congressman Shimkus is not a man to be trifled with. So when he came to the House floor and gave a speech on July 19, 2012 people took some notice.
The Congressman called attention to a very serious problem going on at a nuclear power plant called Limerick.
The Limerick Generating Station in Pennsylvania is located next to the Schuylkill River in Limerick Township, Montgomery County, northwest of Philadelphia.
The facility has two General Electric boiling water reactor (BWR) units, cooled by natural draft cooling towers.
According to the Congressman :
“Limerick has 1,143 metric tons of uranium spent fuel on site. At Limerick, the waste is stored above the ground in pools and in casks. It is 20 feet above the groundwater, and it is on the Schuylkill River, which is 40 miles from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. That is where we currently store high-level nuclear waste.” © 2012 Microsoft Corporation© 2012 NAVTEQ Location : Limerick Township, Pennsylvania 40.227241516113 ; -75.525718688965
This, of course is a huge problem because Limerick was never designed for long term disposal of nuclear waste.
The Congressman alluded to the safety concerns from concentrating that much highly radio-active nuclear waste in one place, mentioning the fact that it is next to a major river that feeds into the major metropolitan area of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
With population increasing in this area...
The 2010 U.S. population within 10 miles (16 km) of Limerick was 252,197, an increase of 18.7 percent in a decade, according to an analysis of U.S. Census data for msnbc.com. The 2010 U.S. population within 50 miles (80 km) was 8,027,924, an increase of 6.1 percent since 2000.
Cities within 50 miles include Philadelphia (28 miles to city center).
“As a Senator from a State with nine commercial reactors—this being one—and 10 million people living within 50 miles of those reactors”, said the Congressman.
The Congressman identified 131 different sites in 39 states where the storage of highly radioactive waste is currently stored.
“I have been going around the country, identifying locations where we currently have high-level nuclear waste”, he said.
At issue is what to do with all the spent fuel ?
Some want the radioactive toxic waste to be shipped to a federal nuclear repository site like Yucca mountain in the Nevada desert.
Others in Congress are opposed to that and want the waste to go someplace else, even though is no other place as safe, secure and remote as Yucca mountain.
In the meantime the deadly radioactive toxic waste continues to pile up at sites all across America posing a direct threat to hundreds of millions of people in 39 states.
The fear is Congress won’t do anything about this issue during an election year.
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