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TexasTowelie

(112,142 posts) Sat Jun 14, 2014, 04:26 PM Jun 2014

West Texas site seeks to bury depleted uranium, triple capacity of burial site

LUBBOCK (AP) — The company operating Texas’ only radioactive waste dump site is asking state regulators to allow disposal of depleted uranium and triple the capacity of a burial site that accepts waste from dozens of states.

Although Waste Control Specialists says the uranium stored at its West Texas site would have only low-level radioactivity, opponents say the proposal would get the company another step closer to handling more dangerous material that wasn’t part of the original license. The company has already been in talks with county officials about high-level waste disposal.

Meanwhile, the Dallas-based business has also asked the state to reduce the money it’s required to have available to fund potential liability at the site — to about $86 million from $136 million.

“The public should be paying attention, but they’re not,” said state Rep. Lon Burnam, a Fort Worth Democrat who has taken an active role in monitoring how the state handles radioactive waste. “We have less and less financial assurances and greater threat for more harm.”

More at http://lubbockonline.com/filed-online/2014-06-14/west-texas-site-seeks-bury-depleted-uranium-triple-capacity-burial-site#comment-337082 .

[font color=green]Pandora's box has been opened.[/font]

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West Texas site seeks to bury depleted uranium, triple capacity of burial site (Original Post) TexasTowelie Jun 2014 OP

Those of us who live 30 miles from there with this thing sitting on our water supply mbperrin Jun 2014 #1

Okay, now tell us how you really feel. TexasTowelie Jun 2014 #2

Oh, it's true, once or twice in my life, my mouth has kinda created a problem. mbperrin Jun 2014 #3

mbperrin

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1. Those of us who live 30 miles from there with this thing sitting on our water supply

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Sat Jun 14, 2014, 04:43 PM

Jun 2014

have sure noticed and raised hell and screamed and kicked, but unfortunately, ONLY Andrews County gets to decide these things along with the state of Texas. Residents all around are shut out.

1. Harold Simmons, now dead, thank God, but not his company, piss on it, is the Dallas billionaire who got Texas Tech to change their maps of the aquifer here to show that the dump edges on it, but is not on top of it, although it was for a hundred and twenty years before that.

2. He then got the state of Texas to accept full financial liability for any leaks from the facility. The company gets off scot-free.

3. He promised Andrews hundreds of high paying jobs - they got a couple dozen forklift driver jobs.

4. He promised they would only accept used hospital gloves, gowns, and so on, very low level stuff.

All lies.

Know what they put in there last week? The OTHER barrels from Carlsbad that exploded and closed the WIPP facility there for good.
We also have what leaked from the Hanford site.

This area will one day be uninhabitable and all to enrich a Dallas company, and eliminating five generations of work by my family since they moved to the area century before last. This is why I wish everyone associated with it in any way a lonesome, painful, hopeless death surrounded by uncaring strangers.

TexasTowelie

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2. Okay, now tell us how you really feel.

Reply to mbperrin (Reply #1)

Sat Jun 14, 2014, 05:10 PM

Jun 2014

I'd hate to cross your path when your dandruff is riled.

I hope that you are enjoying the summer break.

mbperrin

(7,672 posts)

3. Oh, it's true, once or twice in my life, my mouth has kinda created a problem.

Reply to TexasTowelie (Reply #2)

Sat Jun 14, 2014, 05:47 PM

Jun 2014

(If you call $5000 bail a problem!)

I mighta forgot a time or two.

I AM enjoying the break - this is the end of week one. Next week, we start staff training for the fall.

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