Responding to Nuclear Waste Issues

Stop Long-Distance Nuclear Wastes Transporting
No country with nuclear power plants has solved the nuclear wastes storage problem. Attempts to store nuclear wastes are met with hostility and a not-in-my-backyard intransigence, or hostility followed by a let's-send-it-to-another-state (or country) proposal, to be met with more hostility by the unwelcoming recipients. In the meantime the temptation increases to dump nuclear wastes in the oceans or on some far-off island out of sight and out of mind. Let future generations worry about the results.

In the long term what is needed is an international agency that will have the power to:

• Insure no amount of nuclear wastes reaches the oceans;
• Require local storage of nuclear wastes. Any storage would be accessible for timely inspections.
• Inspect all nuclear sites (including American nuclear sites), whether nuclear power plants or storage sites;
• Determine that all nuclear facilities are managed in a responsible manner.
• Aid in the financing of nuclear storage site construction for those countries that are financially strapped;
• Exact penalties against those countries which by their reckless handling of nuclear equipment or wastes endanger our oceans, air and land.

If nuclear waste is to be handled responsibly, all such wastes, with few exceptions, must be stored in the state or country where produced. The exceptions would be island countries such as Indonesia, which have nuclear storage sites too close to volcanoes and the ocean.

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