How many more surprises do the citizens of the USA have coming? Even the Army Corps didn't know about the dumping? And there is going to be cuts to whom's funding exactly?
I thought the nuclear industry was one of the most regulated industries in the nation. It would appear not. It seems to me the military budget is the least thing the Speaker and his House Republicans need to worry about. But, we know how it is; they just aren't on the same page as the Executive Branch and the Senate these days.
Filibuster this, McConnell. Go ahead. Make this nation into a disaster of monumental proportions. The domestic economy and the safety of it's citizens has to come first. I really don't believe there is any room for debate.
August 13, 2012 11:48 am
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (click here) will remain in charge of cleaning up a radioactive nuclear waste site in Parks, Armstrong County, that is home to materials that forced the agency to halt operations and bring in Homeland Security guards earlier this summer.
The decision to keep the Pittsburgh district of the Corps in charge comes after federal officials stopped operations at the site, which spans 44 acres near Apollo and houses nuclear waste left behind from operations conducted by the Nuclear Materials and Equipment Corporation (NUMEC) and Atlantic Richfield Co.
The Babcock and Wilcox Co. most recently owned the land before closing the plant in 1983.
Officials stopped the clean-up project in May after crews discovered greater quantities of what they called "complex" materials like uranium and plutonium at the site.
Armed guards began patrolling the fenced-in land, and officials began reviewing whether the Army Corps was the best agency to continue the job....
PUBLISHED: JUNE 18, 2012 12:01 AM EST
UPDATED: JUNE 17, 2012 11:32 PM EST
UPDATED: JUNE 17, 2012 11:32 PM EST
Security upped at former Pa. nuclear waste dump (click here)
VANDERGRIFT -- Guards from the federal Department of Homeland Security are patrolling a former western Pennsylvania nuclear waste dump as officials rethink their cleanup plans after finding what they called more "complex" nuclear material than expected.
Neither the Army Corps of Engineers, which is managing the cleanup, nor the Nuclear Regulatory Commission would say exactly what material was found at the Armstrong County site, the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reported.
Scott McConnell, spokesman for the National Protection and Programs Directorate, which is part of the Department of Homeland Security, said the elevated security measures were put in place at the Corps' request and were not related to any specific threat in the area. He said the measures result from "an abundance of caution."...
