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U.S. Nuclear Waste Map and There are MANY! Look at FEMA Region lll !! (Video)
U.S. Nuclear Waste Map and There are MANY!
June 13 2014
Another frightening report that needs no hype, the truth is scary all by itself. Could this be yet another reason why FEMA Region 3 is particularly prepared for a disaster?
Yucca, the rocky desert range on the horizon, was chosen 25 years ago as the nation’s first and only nuclear waste repository. Thus began a conflict among politicians, locals, anti-nuclear activists, government officials, and the nuclear industry. Thanks to decades of political power plays, safety debates, and scientific disagreement, Yucca has never opened.
Meanwhile, nuclear power provides twenty percent of America’s electricity, with the resulting waste — about 70,000 tons of it — accumulating at 75 sites nationwide, including near major metro areas such as New York City, New Orleans, and Chicago as shown in the map below.
Map of current nuclear waste storage locations in the United States by Wikicommon
Moving a nation’s accumulated nuclear waste to one spot — or even a few centralized spots — would be expensive. And it would involve complicated cooperation among nuclear companies that typically operated independently. So for two decades, almost nothing happened. Without serious political pressure, nothing would happen. But few people knew or cared enough to force legislative action. Read more or listen to video below
Are you prepared?
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