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Posted on 03/23/2002 11:05:53 PM PST by brat
NEW YORK OFFICIAL BRISTLES AT PLAN TO TRUCK NUCLEAR WASTE
The top executive of New York's Westchester county reacted angrily Friday to the federal government's nuclear waste transportation plan, saying he had not been consulted.
If the government approves of burying the nation's nuclear waste inside Yucca Mountain, 100 miles northwest of Las Vegas, some radioactive material from Indian Point would be trucked on Westchester streets and highways and over the Tappan Zee Bridge, according to an Energy Department plan.
The Journal News said it obtained the unpublished transportation plan from Nevada officials, who were allowed to see it as part of a review of the proposal to use Yucca Mountain as a repository for nuclear waste. The waste, which will be dangerously radioactive for thousands of years, currently is scattered around the nation at nuclear plants.
It previously disclosed that some of Indian Point's waste would be barged down the Hudson River and loaded onto trains at Port Elizabeth, NJ.
The trucking plan, which would begin around 2010 at the earliest, would involve 993 truckloads traveling from the nuclear plants in Buchanan south through Cortlandt, Croton-on-Hudson, Ossining, Briarcliff, Sleepy Hollow and Tarrytown. The trucks then would cross the Hudson River on the Tappan Zee to Interstate 287 in New Jersey and Interstate 80 en route to Nevada.
Nuclear waste produced after 2010 either would be loaded onto barges at Port Elizabeth or trucked to Conrail freight tracks in Croton-on-Hudson, the newspaper said.
County Executive Andrew Spano said he was surprised to hear that such specific plans already had been made for routing casks of nuclear waste from Indian Point to Nevada.
"They have to get there somehow, but how they get there and what the ramifications are have to be discussed with local officials like me," he said. "I should always be consulted when any action takes place in Westchester. The federal government is not exempt from that remark."
Much safer to let it all sit around in hundreds of ill-defended locations, stewing inside corroding containers, waiting for a terrorist to cut through a chain-link fence.
"Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain."--Freiderich von Schiller, The Maid of Orleans
--Boris
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