[CPEO-MEF] RADIATION: Air Force to ship McClellan AFB (CA) waste to Idaho

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Air Force ships Calif. radioactive waste to Idaho landfill

Katharine Mieszkowski and Matt Smith
California Watch
November 9, 2012

After California regulators refused to allow the U.S. Air Force to  
label residue from radioactive aircraft instruments as "naturally  
occurring" - declaring it unsuitable for a Bakersfield-area dump -  
the military turned to Idaho with the same story.

There, military officials met with success. The Air Force is now  
sending radioactive waste from Sacramento County's McClellan Air  
Force Base to a Grand View, Idaho, hazardous waste landfill.

This solution involved a bit of legal semantics rejected in  
California despite 10 months of Air Force lobbying: The military  
claimed radium dust left over from glow-in-the-dark aircraft  
instruments actually was naturally occurring, putting it the same  
relatively lax regulatory category as mine tailings, according to  
government memos obtained by California Watch through a public  
records request.


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For the entire article, see
http://californiawatch.org/dailyreport/air-force-ships-calif- 
radioactive-waste-idaho-landfill-18655

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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