The NRC is proposing a reinterpretation its longstanding rules, without due process, to do away with the age-old requirement for a company to have a license to handle radioactive materials before they take nuclear waste—waste that can be dangerous for decades, centuries, or, in some cases, literally millions of years. The NRC’s VLLW plan doesn't have any verifiable or enforceable limits, nor does it have any provision for public notification or legal intervention. The US NRC, Department of Energy, Department of Transportation, and Environmental Protection Agency have tried over a dozen times already to release nuclear waste from controls. And the public has stopped almost every effort. This new push for VLLW is the latest attempt to remove protections for the public against exposure to nuclear waste by pretending it is safe. And, once more, it is up to the public to stop it again. Tell the NRC and your senators you say NO to VLLW and deregulation of nuclear waste. This time the Very Large Lie about nuclear Waste is the false claim by NRC that it is very low level (VLLW). It's NOT. The main motive is to make it cheaper to decommission shut down nuclear power reactors by letting the bulk of the radioactive buildings, soil, components and other parts go to regular trash or hazardous landfills instead of one of the four licensed nuclear waste sites in the country. Many nuclear waste companies, state nuclear regulators, and nuclear waste compact officials who are strong nuclear power supporters are opposing this VLLW plan because it radically changes the rules after decades. Public interest groups watchdogging nuclear waste would like even stronger controls, but we are in agreement with these officials that this VLLW plan of NRC is a no go. As the nearly 100 nuclear power reactors close in the decade to come, their owners want to save money by dumping thousands of tons of radioactive garbage--concrete, metal, soil, asphalt, equipment, pumps, pipes, plastics and more--by pretending it is not radioactive. Don't let them get away with it. Tell the NRC and your senators you say NO to VLLW and deregulation of nuclear waste Thanks for all you do, The NIRS Team Diane D'Arrigo
Luis Hestres
Denise Jakobsberg
Tim Judson | 
