Government to Dispose of Radioactive Waste By Putting It In Our SILVERWARE

HERE Submitted by George Washington on 01/28/2013

Counterpunch notes:

Even the deregulation-happy Wall St. Journal sounded shocked: “The Department of Energy is proposing to allow the sale of tons of scrap metal from government nuclear sites — an attempt to reduce waste that critics say could lead to radiation-tainted belt buckles, surgical implants and other consumer products.”

 

Having failed in the ‘80s and ‘90s to free the nuclear bomb factories and national laboratories of millions of tons of their radioactively contaminated scrap and nickel, the DOE is trying again. Its latest proposal is moving ahead without even an Environmental Impact Statement. Those messy EISs involve public hearings, so you can imagine the DOE’s reluctance to face the public over adding yet more radiation to the doses we’re already accumulating.

Congressman Markey writes:

A Department of Energy proposal to allow up to 14,000 metric tons of its radioactive scrap metal to be recycled into consumer products was called into question today by Rep. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) due to concerns over public health. In a letter sent to DOE head Steven Chu, Rep. Full Article HERE

HERE Sunil Mungara, TNN Dec 9, 2012,

Faced with severe water crisis, the board members heaved a sigh of relief after the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) agreed to fund a recycling water project, known as “Waste to Wealth,” a senior official said.

After separating the recycled water from sewerage water, the Water Board will supply it to agri-based industries , tanneries, floriculture units and vegetable growing units, officials said. Many industries are using water from different sources by spending lakhs of rupees. The Water Board will supply recycled water to industries as per their requirement , Satyanarayana said.

The Water Board will also lay separate pipelines connecting the recycling plants with industries to supply water. The Board will sell the recycled water after an agreement is reached with the industries and other customers. “We will fix the price based on the quantity of recycled water and location of the industry,” he said. The price could be between Rs 5 and Rs 25 per litre according to the requirement. Full article HERE

Could eating poo-burgers save the Earth?

Article by Jess Zimmerman for Grist
June 17, 2011

HERE In this article for Grist, Jess Zimmerman looks at new research coming out of Japan that sees us using sewage in heretofore unimaginable ways…

Eat poo, cattle farming industry! No, literally, eat poo. Japanese scientist Mitsuyuki Ikeda has developed a way to make meat substitute out of “sewage mud,” which is exactly what it sounds like.

He extracts (bacterial) protein from what is essentially a soup of human feces, then blends it with soy protein and steak sauce to form a sort of poop patty.

According to initial tests, the stuff actually tastes like beef, which raises the question: WHO DID THEY GET TO DO THESE TESTS?