Mystery memos fuel battle between Nevada, DOE over nuclear waste
Last edited Tue Aug 13, 2013, 10:21 PM - Edit history (2)
Source: Fox News
U.S. Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz plans to meet with Nevada’s governor on Tuesday to discuss an escalating dispute between the state and the federal government over where to dump hundreds of canisters of radioactive waste, FoxNews.com has learned.
Tensions have risen in recent weeks over who should be forced to keep the nuclear material. The federal government says Nevada signed off on a series of memos agreeing to take it, but Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval says those talks never happened -- and says his state shouldn’t have to shoulder the burden of burying toxic waste in its backyard.
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That’s a problem because Moniz testified under oath during a July 30 Senate hearing to their existence.
“There were long discussions held, many memos signed on specifically this particular low-level waste movement,” Moniz told senators. “The department agreed to special activities for the disposal. The department agreed to do something unprecedented – to move this in secured transports.”
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Sandoval, a former federal judge and state attorney general, has also accused the DOE of trying to set a dangerous precedent by exploiting a regulatory loophole to classify the waste as a low-level hazard so that it can be buried at a nuclear test location about an hour northwest of Las Vegas.
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Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/08/12/fight-between-nevada-and-doe-over-nuclear-waste-heats-up/
Environmentalists warned that Moniz was a bad choice because of his ties to industry.
On edit: I though this was about low-level waste but was wrong as pointed out by ConcernedCanuk below.
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from the text in the OP
" exploiting a regulatory loophole to classify the waste as a low-level hazard so that it can be buried at a nuclear test location about an hour northwest of Las Vegas. "
Would the feds dodge the laws?
naaaaaaaaaaawwwww
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oh - and I know how to read!
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