The People’s History of Radioactive Waste FORUM - Saturday, June 5, 2010, Chicago, IL

[bananas]

http://www.tmia.com/node/531

The People’s History of Radioactive Waste FORUM

Saturday, June 5, 2010

Loyola University, Lakeshore Campus Chicago, IL

Workshops and Speakers on various aspects of the radioactive waste crisis

1:00 to 1:30pm – Introductory session (plenary)

Why Chicago? Why now? What the grassroots anti-nuclear movement needs to do to protect people and the environment from radioactive waste.

1:30 to 2:00 – Plenary on First Set of Workshop Topics: Parking Lot Dumps, Reprocessing, and HOSS (workshop leaders will present short summaries of their particular break out session, so participants can choose which workshop most interests them)

2:00 to 3:15 -- First Set of Workshops (break out sessions) 1. Reprocessing and plutonium policy

2. Hardened on-site Storage (HOSS) as opposed to current on-site outdoor dry cask and indoor pool storage

3. So-called commercial “low-level” waste generation, processing, storage, disposal, “recycling” and “release”

4. Radioactive waste transport Issues and away-from-reactor commercial high-level radioactive waste storage (centralized interim storage, monitored retrievable storage, or parking lot dumps)

3:15 to 3:45 Rest Break

3:45 to 4:15 – Plenary on Second Set of Workshop Topics: Yucca, WIPP, and Health (again, workshop leaders will present short summaries of their particular break out session, so participants can choose which workshop most interests them)

4:15 to 5:30 Second Set of Workshops (break out sessions) 1. Prevention is the best medicine: stopping new uranium mines and reactors 2. Yucca Mountain and other targeted repositories/disposal sites 3. Military waste sources and current policy challenges (WIPP and other DOE sites) 4. Radioactivity’s hazards to health, now and in the future

EVENING PROGRAM beginning at 7pm:

Keynote speaker(s) to be announced, as well as musical entertainment, including singer/songwriter Victor McManemy of Traverse City, Michigan.

[BrightKnight]

1. What are they going to do with millions of tons of radioactive coal ash?

Heavy metals, arsenic and other toxins do not exactly biodegrade. Is acid rain and global warming really the best choice?

I hope they do something constructive but it sounds like a dirty coal lobbying festival.

Renewables are cute but in the real world nobody is going to build a multi Gigawatt power plant with PV or wind.

[Nihil]

3. The usual ...

> What are they going to do with millions of tons of radioactive coal ash?

... stick their fingers in their ears and pretend that it doesn't exist.

It's a strategy that has worked 100% to date so don't knock it or you'll be
called a troll.


> it sounds like a dirty coal lobbying festival

Funny that ... a dirty coal lobbying festival that they'll drive & fly to
so that they can sit in their air-conditioned rooms, discussing the same stuff
that's on a hundred cut & paste blogs, actively paying for the additional
wasted energy and yet claiming that they're doing something "green" ...

:shrug:

[Confusious]

2. I'm a member of the grassroots nuclear movement

and the grassroots bowel movement. "We'll not rest until everyone poops free!"

I think my cat's a member of the grassroots "feed me, pet me, leave me alone" movement.