Closed Bases Could Get Nuclear Waste

Hi everyone. I posted this a few days ago in the middle of the night. Assuming that not many of you caught the story, I'm posting it again. If this has already been discussed, my apologies.

Shut bases could get nuclear waste
A $15.5m funding plan allows for reprocessing

WASHINGTON -- Closed military bases could become repositories for nuclear waste under a little-noticed section of a spending bill that was passed by the House this week, exacerbating the fears of local lawmakers who are fighting the scheduled closure of four of New England's biggest bases.

The energy and water bill from the House Appropriations Committee includes $15.5 million for reprocessing of nuclear waste from power plants and construction of an interim nuclear waste dump. The legislation does not specify where that dump would be. But the Appropriations Committee report, which explains the bill, suggests that mothballed military bases be considered as potential sites for the waste.

It's interesting how it's assumed that it was "a little-noticed section of a spending bill"

when I bet no one even bothered to read it.

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