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History of the Department Of Energy (DOE) Waste Dispersal into Household Items' Plan
2001
- Tell DOE How Much Radioactive Contamination from nuclear weapons sites should be Dispersed, "Recycled," Released into our daily-use items, raw materials and regular trash (Read the Alert). The DOE is having Scoping Hearings on their EIS on Radioactive Metal Recycling from DOE radiological control areas, COMMENT deadline Sept 10, 2001. Here are detailed Talking Points for you to use as well as a one page summary.October 23, 2001.
- The DOE is having Scoping Hearings on their EIS on Radioactive Metal Recycling from DOE radiological control areas, COMMENT deadline Sept 10, 2001.
- DOE's Notice of Intent Issued for an Environmental Impact Statement on Scrap Metals Disposition Statement.
- Recycling irradiated metals draws fire, DOE holds hearings to set standards (Oakland Tribune, August 8, 2001)
- Question Why a Nuclear Industry Lobbyist is Heading the Department of Energy's Public Hearings on the Radioactive Metals "Recycling," (Public Citizen's Critical Mass, August 7, 2001)
- Tell the Department of Energy that Radioactive Waste is One Thing That Should NOT Be "Recycled!"(Public Citizen, August 2, 2001)
- Environmental Groups Letter to DOE on Radioactive Waste Release and 'Recycling' PEIS, (July 27, 2001)
- DOE's Press Release for the PEIS, (Department of Energy, July 12, 2001)
- Public Citizen's Press Release - Comment Period on Scope of Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement Is Too Short (July 13, 2001)
- Public Citizen's Letter to Asst. Secretary Carolyn Huntoon of the U.S. Department of Energy- requesting an extended comment period for PEIS (July 12, 2001)
- DOE proposed changes to Order 5400.5, proposed in October 2000, and not accepted in January 2001 by then-Secretary Richardson. It would have added two new chapters and reinforced existing releases of radioactively contaminated materials. The prohibition on release of some contaminated metal had loopholes that must still be addressed (plugged) in the Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement process.
2000
- MultiGroup Comments on DOE Order 5400.5 specifically the changes proposed in 2000, but were not adopted.. DOE has decided to do a Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement, probably on release of contaminated metal, do justify lifting the current moratoria on metal release from DOE weapons sites. Note that commercial facilities like nuclear power reactors and other NRC and Agreement State-licensed nuclear facilities may be releasing - dispersing contaminated metals because DOE's moratoria only cover the weapons complex, not commercial parts of the nuclear fuel chain such as atomic power reactors.
- NIRS press release on DOE's announcement of suspension of recycling of radioactivemetals, July 14, 2000. (Note, NRC is still working on new "standards" toallow such recycling).
- On July 13, 2000 then-DOE Secretary Richardson suspended the release of any potentially contaminated metal from DOE sites into unregulated disposal and everyday commerce.
- Public Citizen's Critical Mass Energy and Environment Program Press Release criticized the DOE January 2000 Moratorium on release of volumetrically radioactive metal for not going far enough to prevent surface contaminated metals, any other contaminated materials such as concrete, soil, plastic, wood, buildings, and property from being released from the nuclear weapons complex and dispersed into regular daily commerce or trash.
- In January 2000, then-Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary Bill Richardson put a moratorium on the release from US DOE sites of volumetrically contaminated metals (metal with radioactivity within as opposed to only on the surface).
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