[PAA-Discuss] URGENT: Ban Import of Radioactive Waste

[Juli3 at aol.com]

_YES!  Stop the Importation of Radioactive Waste_ 
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Dear Activist, 
Should the United  States be a dumping ground for  other countries' nuclear 
waste? While the answer would  seem obvious to most, EnergySolutions--the 
largest commercial  nuclear waste dump in the U.S.--thinks  otherwise.   
The company has asked the Nuclear  Regulatory Commission (NRC) for permission 
to import 20,000 tons of  low-level nuclear waste from defunct nuclear 
reactors in  Italy.   The waste would be shipped through ports in South Carolina and 
Louisiana, incinerated in Tennessee,  and then some of the waste would be 
sent to EnergySolutions'  low-level nuclear waste dump in Utah for disposal.  
Besides being the largest proposal of  its kind, and the first time a company 
has specifically asked to  dispose large quantities of foreign generated 
nuclear materials in  the U.S., the plan would also  set a precedent for the U.S. 
to become the  world's nuclear waste dump. 
That is why Congressmen  Bart Gordon (D-TN), Jim Matheson (D-UT), and Ed 
Whitfield (R-KY)  have introduced bipartisan legislation--HR 5632 -to ban the  
importation of low-level radioactive waste into the United  States. 
HR 5632 is important not  only to prevent EnergySolutions from opening the 
door to foreign  nuclear waste disposal in the U.S., but also to preserve our  
country's ability to handle our own low-level nuclear waste disposal  needs. 
Your Congressperson, sits on the House  Energy and Commerce Committee that 
will be the first to hear this  bill next Tuesday, May 20th.   
_Please  call and ask your representative to support HR 5632_ 
(http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=QdsRF4kztOdHUHw447T+iYjiK53yj9Mw)  
and to pass  this important legislation out of committee.

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