The United States, under President Obama, is allowing U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu to make agreements with foreign countries (already alleged to have signed an agreement with Italy), to bring in radioactive waste into the United States for processing and storage. [2]
The United States is now in the process of importing low-level radioactive waste from foreign countries. Energy Secretary Chu has signed an agreement in 2009, with Italy, to take their radioactive waste. There may be more agreements in our future unless the public objects and says no to this new policy. Mexico, Canada, England, and other countries will all be making deals with the U.S. in the near future. (It is alleged that there is a court case in progress with regard to this issue according to statements made at the October 16, 2009, U.S. House Hearing.) [2]
The amount of low-level radioactive waste produced in the U.S. has been reduced, according to statements made at the U.S. House hearing on October 16, 2009, in the last ten years.[2] Now, with the U.S. agreeing to take low-level radioactive waste, process, and store it in the United States, there is no incentive for foreign countries to reduce the amount of radioactive waste they produce. They can just make agreements to dump their waste in the United States to be processed and stored here in dump sites in Idaho, Washington, and other states.
NOTE: There are some other agendas here that are remaining hidden. Idaho already has the DU that the US dumped on Iraq, now it is in Idaho, and they have no experience or familiarity with long term storage, Now this?
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