Van Buren County has more than their fair share of grief from radioactive activity and or it's disposal. They need nor should have anymore. There is too much water in Michigan to even consider such a landfill.
Michigan has so much water within it's borders the state should be exporting trash yet alone import it. Michigan landfills are a mess. They bring everything under the sun to dump in Michigan, including the petroleum garbage out of the Gulf of Mexico. This is the last state that should be accepting garbage for landfills to be perfectly clear.
A Nuclear Regulatory Agency inspector makes his rounds in a breaker room inside Palisades nuclear power plant.
August 19, 2013
By Yvonne Zipp
COVERT TOWNSHIP, MI – A new study (click here) from a controversial group alleges there is a link between Palisades Nuclear Power Plant and an increase in the death rate and cancer rates in Van Buren County....
...Between 2003 and 2010, Van Buren County's cancer rate also was 12 percent higher than the state's rate -- the highest among Michigan's 34 most populated counties, according to the study. Mangano said that, during the 1970s, the county's rate of cancer was 10 percent below the state rate, showing a climb of 22 percent over three decades. The study was commissioned by Beyond Nuclear after a May incident, in which about 80 gallons of highly diluted radioactive water was released into Lake Michigan....
Michigan has so much water within it's borders the state should be exporting trash yet alone import it. Michigan landfills are a mess. They bring everything under the sun to dump in Michigan, including the petroleum garbage out of the Gulf of Mexico. This is the last state that should be accepting garbage for landfills to be perfectly clear.
A Nuclear Regulatory Agency inspector makes his rounds in a breaker room inside Palisades nuclear power plant.August 19, 2013
By Yvonne Zipp
COVERT TOWNSHIP, MI – A new study (click here) from a controversial group alleges there is a link between Palisades Nuclear Power Plant and an increase in the death rate and cancer rates in Van Buren County....
...Between 2003 and 2010, Van Buren County's cancer rate also was 12 percent higher than the state's rate -- the highest among Michigan's 34 most populated counties, according to the study. Mangano said that, during the 1970s, the county's rate of cancer was 10 percent below the state rate, showing a climb of 22 percent over three decades. The study was commissioned by Beyond Nuclear after a May incident, in which about 80 gallons of highly diluted radioactive water was released into Lake Michigan....
