Women's Institute Consulted on Nuclear Waste

Leon Stringer writes "The Guardian is reporting that the Womens' Institute is being asked for their views on the disposal of nuclear waste while senior scientists resign in protest of being ignored. What members of the public would you like to design nuclear waste storage facilities?"

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Re:Your Tax Dollars

[Anonymous Coward]

You mean your tax pence at work. And no, they're not mine.

ScuttleMonkey?

[CAIMLAS]

Who the hell is ScuttleMonkey, and what did he do with the CmdrTaco Gang? He's the only one I've seen posting stories lately....

If there is no room to store the Radioactive waste

[NRAdude]

...then let them eat Uranium.

A statistic from the among the above cited URL, and this page as follows;

"Depleted uranium (DU) is the highly toxic and radioactive byproduct of the
uranium enrichment process... Depleted uranium is roughly 60% as radioactive
as naturally occurring uranium, and has a half life of 4.5 billion years. As
a result of 50 years of enriching uranium for use in nuclear weapons and reactors,
the U.S. has in excess of 1.1 billion pounds of DU waste material."
-- Dan Fahey, "Metal of Dishonor" (1997)

"More ordinance was rained down on Iraq during the six weeks of the Gulf War
than during the whole of the Second World War. Uknown to the public or the Allied
troops at the time, much of it was coated with depleted uranium (DU)"
-- Felicity Arbuthnot, New Internationalist, September 1999

"The Pentagon and the United Nations estimate that the U.S. and Britain used
1,100 to 2,200 tons of armor-peircing shells made of depleted uranium during the
attacks on Iraq in March and April [2003] -- far more than the 375 tons used in the
1991 Gulf War." -- Seatle Post Intelligencer, 8/4/03

"Since the U.S. military's widespread use of DU in the Gulf became known in 1991,
the Pentagon has struggled to suppress mounting evidence that DU munitions are simply
too toxic to use. I has cashiered or attempted to discredit its own experts, ignored
their advice, impeded scientific research into DU's health effects and assembled a
disinformation campaign to confuse the issue." -- Environmental Magazine, May/Jun 2003

"When I spoke out within the military about how bad [depleted uranium] was, my life
ended, my career ended, I received threats, warnings, sent to the reserve from full
active duty." --
    Dr. Douge Rokke, former Army Major, who was in charge of the military's environmental
clean-up following the first Gulf War, ABC News, 5/5/03
    Thirty members of Rokke's cleanup team have already died, and he has 5,000 times the
acceptable level of radiation in his body, resulting in damage to his lungs and kidneys,
brain lesions, skin postules, chronic fatigue, continual wheezing and painful fibromyalgia.

After the Gulf War, Rokke was assigned to make a training video to teach soldiers how to
handle depleted uranium. I was never shown to the troops.

"...General Calvin Waller told NBC's `Dateline' that neither he nor General Norman
Schwartzkopf were ever told about the health hazards of DU."
-- Military Toxicx Project's Depleted Uranium Citizens' Network, 1/16/96

"Military men are dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns for foreign policy."
        -- Henry Kissinger, quoted by Bob Woodward in "The Final Days" (1976)