MUCH MUCH more important than the election

This is definitely not the first time I have written about this 
subject matter 
and 
it won't be the last.


A front page headline in today's LA TIMES

Fallout in 
2014 blast
worsens.
Explosion at a New 
Mexico nuclear dump
ranks among costliest 
in US history, an
analysis shows.

On Valentine's day in 2014 somehow Kitty Litter was being used to blot up liquids in a sealed drum and the chemical compound resulted in the lid being blown off of ONE drum and sent a white cloud of radioactive material into the air, and 35% of the underground area became contaminated.

KITTY LITTER!

ONE DRUM!

35%  ( This number might not be close to the truth)
The Energy Department goes out of their way to sugarcoat anything having to do with Nuclear problems.

A major issue is that the Los Alamos site is a storage facility for nuclear waste from other Nuclear Power Plants....and the ventilation system won't be fixed until 2021.

 2021

Thousands of tons of waste from Idaho, Washington, New Mexico and elsewhere are now backed up with no place to go.

Thousands  (24,000 drums just from Hanford site in Washington)

Elsewhere

According to Federal sources 277,000 drums are suppose to be sent to the damaged dump site.

One of the misleading parts of the story is the cost of cleanup.  The Energy Department uses numbers like $2 billion for Three Mile Island cleanup.  

THE COST CANNOT BE DETERMINED until everything is cleaned up.  From what I know about nuclear radioactivity, cleaned up shouldn't even be a usable term

The Kitty Litter was part of the materials sent from Iran after the famous treaty was signed.
of course
I'm kidding about that....
but what part of this story doesn't sound like a joke.

I claim that there's an agreement between the press and the politicians never to bring this subject up at a debate or a press conference....because there is NO POSITIVE ANSWER.  My friend Tom claims that the lack of information regarding this area is due to the reduction of investigative reporters by print and broadcast media.

WE BOTH MIGHT BE RIGHT!

The article in the Times by Ralph Vartabedian states "that radioactive contamination at other nuclear weapons sites is costing TENS of BILLIONS of dollars to clean up BUT it is generally the result of deliberate practices such as dumping nuclear waste into the ground."

HE SHOULD HAVE ADDED RIVERS, LAKES AND OCEANS.

Deliberate

Please note that we are discussing United States Nuclear facilities ONLY!

Imagine the lack of regard for generations of human beings in countries WITHOUT OUR TYPE OF REGULATIONS.

WHERE DOES JAPAN DUMP THEIR WASTE?
WHERE DOES RUSSIA DUMP THEIR WASTE?
WHERE DOES CHINA DUMP THEIR WASTE?
WHERE DOES INDIA DUMP THEIR WASTE?
WHERE DOES PAKISTAN DUMP THEIR WASTE?


Nuclear energy is the most expensive energy, by leaps and bounds, when you add everything up.
Fixing problems is part of the cost and nothing comes close when you total the bottom line of Nuclear Energy.

It's appalling that WE, as human beings, allow this type of damage to continue being done on a global basis.

We have a magnificent ball of perfect nuclear energy sitting 93,000,000 miles away that can power anything and everything and we constantly hear that  Solar Energy is too expensive.

And I'm still waiting for someone to bring up the Nuclear Waste problem at a Presidential news conference or debate.

And I will continue to wait and wait and wait and wait........

Michael Timothy McAlevey