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McCain Discusses Nuclear As The Safe Solution
Rebecca L. Sherman
September 26, 2008In the first Presidential Debate held at the University of Mississippi, Senator McCain expressed the nation's need to build up Nuclear Power Plants as a viable source for meeting the energy needs in the United States.
He went on to express that Nuclear was a safe and clean option for the American people and he proposes a huge increase in spending to build Nuclear Power Plants across the nation.
Senator McCain's perspective and information is incorrect.
In the early 1980s the U.S. Department of Game and Fish found the Columbia River was being contaminated by the Trojan Nuclear Power Plant located along the river at Prescott, Oregon, which is 50 miles east of Astoria and five miles south of Longview, Washington.
This power plant was finally closed after a cracked steam tube released radioactive gas into the plant in 1992. The nuclear plant was sealed and the reactor was transported by barge to the Hanford Nuclear Waste Site.
The Hanford nuclear waste site in the state of Washington has been the dumping ground for Defense waste for over forty years. As recent as 2006 the Government Accountability Office (GAO) found that the Columbia River contains contaminants consisting of nuclear waste, plutonium and other hazardous defense chemicals, which are dumped at the site. These contaminants are leaching into the ground and entering into the Columbia River.
In December 2002, the Oregon Office of Energy’s Nuclear Safety Division on behalf of the Oregon Hanford Waste Board prepared a report concerning the nuclear waste, which is leaching into the Columbia River.
The report summarizes, "Huge amounts of radioactive and chemically hazardous wastes – generated at Hanford during more than 40 years of plutonium production for America’s nuclear weapons program – threaten the Columbia River. Some of these wastes are now entering the river. Cleaning up these wastes will take decades.
Further Articles:
Spain, Glen. (2002, September). WHY THE HANFORD MATTERS TO FISHERMEN Avoiding a Radioactive Columbia River. Fishermen's News.Retrieved on Sept. 26, 2008 from http://www.pcffa.org/fn-sep02.htm
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The USS Oriskany is the nuclear ship that Senator McCain served on during his military service.
This ship was in dry dock for years undergoing decontamination.
After Hurricane Ivan it was sunk in the Gulf of Mexico
as a reef
re-habilitation project.
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