University Daily Kansan, October 22, 1980
Page 7
Lyons to be waste site, writer says
By ARNE GREEN Staff Reporter
The Wolf Creek nuclear power plant now under construction near Burlington is being built to justify the storage of nuclear waste in Lyons, Max McDowell, a freelance writer on nuclear waste, said last night.
Kansas once before had been selected as a site for storing hazardous nuclear wastes, McDowell said, but the Atomic Energy Commission dropped its plans for a Lyon disposal site in the area political pressure created the site began producing no high-level nuclear waste.
The Wolf Creek plant, scheduled to begin operation in three years, would produce plutonium and other high-level wastes, McDowell said.
McDowell, who has been investigating nuclear energy and waste in Kansas for the past two years, spoke to about 100 neoble at a lecture-spon
sored by the Lawrence chapter of the Sunflower Alliance.
A rush is on to complete the Wolf Creek plant by 1883, the year the company made a site recommendation for a nuclear waste renovation, McDowell said.
"fear that Kansas is being set up for "bearer" repository for nuclear science," he said.
McDowell said that the federal government wanted to store the nation's spent nuclear fuel in abandoned salt mines in Lyons to safeguard plutonium produced by nuclear reactors throughout the country.
The federal government's denial of any intention to use the old salt mines is one of the most contentious issues in South Africa.
"They are not going to use the old mine; they are going to put the waste in a virgin bed of salt adjacent to the old Carev砂 mine." he said.
McDowell said. The others were western New York and Detroit.
In 1972, the government listed central Kansas as one of three geologically acceptable areas for a repository.
The Environmental Protection Agency requires that alternative sites for the repository be considered, but it is the site the government wants, he said.
"The Nuclear Regulatory Commission won't grant a license unless Kansas and Coffey County sign a memorandum of understanding," he said. "We can also create legislative changes on nuclear waste disposal in Kansas."
In the 1960s, "Project Salt Vault," tested the Lyons site by burying waste in the salt mines, McDowell said, and result, the AEC selected Lyons in 1970.
McDowell said that stopping the Wolf creek plant and the Lyons depository in Wyoming was more important.
"I hate to say it, but the government doesn't give a damn about the people," he said. "They take care of the corporations."
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