Cal Poly Humboldt’s Vincent Ialenti Presents on Nuclear Waste Storage in Humboldt Bay and Beyond April 30th

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This is a press release from the Schatz Center:

Join Cal Poly Humboldt research faculty member Vincent Ialenti as he explores America’s nuclear waste gridlock and the future of Humboldt Bay’s storage site– one of over seventy stranded nuclear waste sites across the country. Learn how legal, financial, and cultural forces have influenced the U.S. nuclear waste program, and where Humboldt Bay sits within the broader national challenge of governing radioactive materials as societies attempt to make credible, long term promises about safety, stewardship, and justice.

This event is free and open to the public and will be held on Thursday, April 30th from 5:30-7:00 pm in BSS 166 at Cal Poly Humboldt. For questions, contact [email protected] or call 707-826-4345.

For more information, visit the Schatz Center News Blog.

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Poking the bear,
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Poking the bear,
1 month ago

I have heard this before. The waste from the power plant is not allowed to exit thru arcata. And is also blocked south. Can’t remember why or where. So we have nuclear waste sitting in a tsunami zone. Good thing the casks it is stored in have a good track record. I don’t think half the population in the humboldt bay area have ever given it one seconds thought, or are even aware that a nuclear power plant was ever present. Well ignorance is bliss.

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Smoky OG again
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Smoky OG again
1 month ago
Reply to  Poking the bear,

Heard wrong buddy.
This deadly radioactive waste has nowhere to go, hence the laws were changed to allow “onsite” “temporary” storage of this permanently deadly toxic crap while a “Permanent” waste repository is located and developed.
Nuke waste in the past was sent to Hanford Nuke Reservation in tri-cities WA and Savannah River in S. Carolina. Both places are now so toxic with deadly radiation, and Full too. So yes laws and regs wrre changed to permit local onsite storage of the deadly forever waste. The negotiating point in allowing it to stay onsite is what is known as “Dry Cask” storage, a combination of steel, lead and special concrete designed to survive intact during earthquakes and submersion. 

And there has NEVER been general highway shipping of high level nuke poweplant waste. This stuff is incredibly Heavy so best practice has and is to ship on barges the very few times a nuke plant was actually decommissioned. So far only humboldt nuke and shippingport PA have been attempted to be removed to somewhere else. Most of humboldt after it was cut up into pieces and contained went on barges to hanford. The primary vessel was too deadly toxic to cut up so it was "sealed" and put on a big barge intact.  Remember the massive cranes that were there? 
BTW Hanford is the original brownfield in USA and the single most deadly toxic 560 sq. Miles in N. America. Maybe on planet Earth. 
Oh and its Leaking into the Columbia river.
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Smoky OG again
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Smoky OG again
1 month ago
Reply to  Smoky OG again 
And there has NEVER been general highway shipping of high level nuke poweplant waste. This stuff is incredibly Heavy so best practice has and is to ship on barges the very few times a nuke plant was actually decommissioned. So far only humboldt nuke and shippingport PA have been attempted to be removed to somewhere else. Most of humboldt after it was cut up into pieces and contained went on barges to hanford. The primary vessel was too deadly toxic to cut up so it was "sealed" and put on a big barge intact.  Remember the massive cranes that were there? 
BTW Hanford is the original brownfield in USA and the single most deadly toxic 560 sq. Miles in N. America. Maybe on planet Earth. 
Oh and its Leaking into the Columbia river.
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Mr. Clark
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Mr. Clark
1 month ago

There is lots of new technology for nuke power plants. Way better that windmills.

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Smoky OG again
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Smoky OG again
1 month ago
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No there is not any “new” technology for nukes that hasn’t already been concieved and abandonded for being too dangerous.
The mini nuke fad is just more high profit for a bad group of capitalists. The nuke construction industry. Every nuke plant always has massive cost “overruns”= massive corruption. This just is not something that happens when windfarms are built.

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