>>> July 25, 2002

Contami-
Nation

Faced with millions of tons of radioactive metal destined for landfills, the U.S. Department of Energy has a better alternative. Release the nuclear scrap as unlabelled, recycled metal from which the unsuspecting public can create bicycles, bed frames or homes.

The irradiated metals from nuclear weapons plants and decommissioned reactors, long considered detrimental to the well-being of life on the planet, are now being touted by the DOE and the Nuclear Regulatory Committee as viable assets. Recycling would also save billions of dollars in disposal costs, a notion that seems to greatly outweigh the health of the mutating masses.

Both the DOE and the NRC have been quietly rewriting current rules, and hope to establish guidelines through which metals with low radiation levels would be deemed ‘safe.’ The metals could then be traded globally as scrap without the burden of revealing its origin. :
-Scott Saxon