Here's a bit of silliness regarding Waste Control Specialists disposal site. Of course there will be more waste transported to Texas now that the site is open for disposal, but if not there, the wastes would go somewhere else. Yet, nationally, as the article points out, radioactive waste shipments have been boringly non-eventful. The writer has to compare a train derailment with corn syrup (HA!) to trucks carrying radioactive material in order to manufacture a case that doesn't exist in reality.
And Ms. Hadden stretches reality by stating that once radioactive material reaches the groundwater it can get into the millions and BILLIONS of dollars!!!!! First off, the waste is in solid form. So even if an accident occurs and if a container is breached the waste will be on the ground's surface, where it can be easily and rapidly decontaminated. Secondly, any trace radioactivity that magically did migrate down to the groundwater table would be almost certainly below drinking water levels with groundwater dilution. Thirdly, even if magically drinking water levels were exceeded, a truck load spill can only cover a relatively small area/volume. To clean that size area/volume would never reach millions of dollars let alone billions.
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