Know anyone who lives in Idaho? You might want to let them know this is happening as this waste will not break down for millions of years...
With all the deserts they have over there, why is this stuff being transported here?Southwest Idaho company making millions by accepting toxic waste
By Cynthia Sewell, The Idaho Statesman
May 8th 2008
Railcars loaded with 6,700 tons of radioactive waste will roll across the Treasure Valley this week, the cargo destined for a remote site south of Boise on a sagebrush-dotted plateau near the Snake River.
And it won't be the first time.
This scenario has occurred regularly over the past several years. The site Idaho's only public hazardous waste dump has received more than 1 million tons of radioactive materials from the federal government during the past five years.
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The shipment now en route to Idaho is from Kuwait.
In 1991, a fire at the U.S. Army Camp Doha ignited military vehicles and munitions containing depleted uranium used in armor-piercing shells. The shell fragments were removed and disposed in the United States by the U.S. Army in 2005. This incoming shipment contains the remaining 6,700 tons of lightly contaminated soil the fragments were removed from.
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