Myla Reson comments
Posted by John Tauxe on May 20, 1999 at 08:52:23:Myle Reson wrote:
I would like to reply comments posted by John Tauxe on April 2, 1999.JT: "None of the waste in the current shipment is classified as hazardous."
Myla Reson: JT misses the point. WIPP is a hazardous waste facility. A hazardous waste facility should have a hazardous waste permit before it is allowed to accept waste. The DoE promised for years that it would
obtain that permit before it accepted waste at WIPP.JT2:
I'm sorry. I thought you were accusing DOE of shipping hazardous waste to an unlicensed facility, which they did not.JT: The National Academy of Science has long endorsed the use of WIPP.
Myla Reson: The National Acaemy of Science has endorsed the deep geologic disposal of Nuclear Waste. However there has been some disent. Larry Konikow (sp?) presided over a NAS panel on WIPP and said that not enough was known about the hydrology of the site to determine whether the waste could be rapidly transported to the accesible environment. Dr. David Snow was on the NAS panel on WIPP three or four time. He contends that there are serious errors in the characterization of the geology and hydrology of the site.
JT2: How much more money would you like to spend to characterize the site better?
MR: I was at the WIPP site in April with the Mayor Pro-Tem of Juarez and a City Councilor from Ciudad Juarez. I was surprised to see haw green it was. The desert was in bloom. WIPP is close to the Pecos River. If the waste is flushed out of the Rustler Aquifer above the WIPP into the Pecos River, Mexico is downstream.
JT2:
These are many disconnected facts, but do not constitute a credible scenario for the contamination of Mexico. Ciudad Juarez has loads more contamination in its midst than anything WIPP could cough up. Perhaps we could help them clean up CJ instead of spending billions more on characterizing WIPP...
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