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Calling for a national independent commission to review United States
radioactive waste policy.
WHEREAS, The Department of Energy plans to move high level nuclear waste to
Nevada through 43 states, including Pennsylvania and New Jersey, beginning in
1998, under the provisions of H R.1020; and
WHEREAS, Pennsylvania can expect 3,S79 truck casks and 2,190 rail casks to
come through highly populated areas; each rail cask holds up to 24 fuel
assemblies which in terms of radioactivity is far more deadly than the Hiroshima
bomb; and
WHEREAS, The Department of Energy would require a 30 year shipping period of
existing high-level radioactive waste across the country to Yucca Mountain
Nevada, nuclear waste that will remain hazardous for more than half a million
years; and
WHEREAS, The transportation of this high-level nuclear waste is paid for by
the utility rate payers in their electric bills; and
WHEREAS, Inadequate emergency management preparation exists in the Delaware
Valley to handle critical accidents by rail or truck involving radioactive
rnaterials and
WHEREAS, Alternative fuel Production such as wind power, solar thermal
energy, solar photovoltaic electricity, and biomass power plants can replace
nuclear energy and its hazardous wastes; and
WHEREAS, Continued production of nuclear fuel by nuclear plants will create
additional transportation problems in disposal of their radioactive waste; and
WHEREAS, Bensalem and Falls Township have opposed transportation of
radioactive waste through their communities; and
THE COUNCIL OF THE ClTY OF PHILADELPHI calls upon Congressmen Thomas
Foglietta, Chaka Fattah and Robert Borski to oppose H.R. 1020 and calls for a
national independent commission to review United States radioactive waste policy
RESOLVED, further, that copies of this resolution shall be sent to President
Bill Clinton, Congressmen Thomas Foglietta, Chaka Fattah and Robert Borski and
Senators Arlen Specter and Richard Santorurn as evidence of the sincere
sentiment of this legislative body.
Passed unanimously on November 30, 1995
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