Below are the Alliance for Progressive Values public comments on new Nuclear Regulatory Commission rules on storage of High Level Radioactive Waste. Such materials are deadly for as long as 100 centuries and at present some of them are being stored within 50 miles of metropolitan Richmond Virginia.
“APV opposes the NRC draft plan for Waste Confidence DGEIS. Frankly, as high as the stakes are in regard to nuclear waste storage, we do not feel we can trust the industry, nor do we feel we can trust the regulators. And at its heart, we do not trust the technology itself. We are making a deadly mess that will last so far into the future that it can scarcely be imagined and leaving it for generations whose technological skills and societal framework, we cannot hope to predict. We have already gone too far. We must stop now and begin to seriously come to grips with the damage we have already done.”
