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 The Department of Energy (DOE) has produced radioactive materials for nuclear bombs; designed, built, and tested nuclear weapons; and developed reactor and other technologies with little concern for the environmental harm those activities cause. The inevitable result is that all DOE sites are polluted. Nevertheless, DOE remains far more interested in protecting its pollution-causing activities than in correcting the harm they have already done.
DOE is not meeting its legal and ethical responsibility to clean up the legacy of more than 60 years of radioactive and toxic contamination. Instead, DOE is promoting nuclear activities that will create additional pollution and threaten the health of future generations. Currently, water near some DOE facilities, such as Paducah, KY, and Pantex, TX, remains unfit to drink. Some of the nation’s major water sources, including the Columbia River, Snake River Aquifer, and Ogallala Aquifer, are threatened.
After declaring the Yucca Mountain project dead, the Obama Administration called for a "Blue Ribbon Commission on America's Nuclear Future" to determine what should be done with US high level nuclear waste. The Blue Ribbon Commission has issued its draft report. A final report will be issued in January |
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Nuclear study will assess cancer risk
Source URL: http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/metro/2010-04-27/nuclear-study-will-assess-cancer-risk
By Rob Pavey
Staff Writer
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Plant Vogtle and Savannah River Site should be included in a new national study of cancer risks for people living near nuclear facilities, according to environmental groups.
"It's exactly what we've been asking for -- for years," said Bobbie Paul, the executive director of Georgia Women's Action for New Direction, which has lobbied for more radiological monitoring in the area.
On Tuesday, the National Academy of Sciences affirmed an April 7 request from the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission to update the 1990 National Institutes of Health and National Cancer Institute report, Cancer in Populations Living Near Nuclear Facilities .
The 20-year-old study, which examined deaths from 16 types of cancer, found no increased risk of death among people living in 107 counties containing or adjacent to 62 nuclear facilities.
Burke, Aiken and Barnwell counties were among the areas studied.
During a meeting this week of the academy's Nuclear and Radiation Studies Board, experts said advances in technology will make the new study more accurate and eliminate flaws in the earlier analysis.
The 1990 study, for example, only considered children who died of cancer near nuclear plants, instead of the higher numbers of children who contracted the disease but didn't die. It also assessed populations by county, and not groups of people living closest to the reactors.
The study is expected to begin this summer, although a complete list of nuclear sites to be included was not made available on the NRC's Web site.
Plant Vogtle's two reactors went online in the late 1980s, and work is under way in preparation for a $14.8 billion project to add two additional reactors.
Vogtle's status as the first recipient of a federal loan guarantee, and its proximity to Savannah River Site, make Burke County a prime candidate for the new analysis, Paul said.
"We think it should definitely be looked at," she said.
Southern Nuclear, which operates Plant Vogtle for its owners, welcomes the additional scrutiny, spokeswoman Beth Thomas said.
"Southern Nuclear, as well as others in the nuclear industry, support the NRC's efforts to conduct a more thorough health study around nuclear plants," she said. "Surveys and health studies such as this help the industry to communicate the safety of nuclear plants in the U.S."
Scripps Howard News Service reports were used in this article.
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