Redefining radioactive waste as benign enabled unregulated disposal and groundwater poisoning

Evidence

About a third of it was classified as BRC, “below regulatory concerns.” This allowed the nuclear power industry to dispose of it any way they wished. A uranium processing plant was called the “Feed Materials Processing Center,” suggestive of an animal feed processing plant. Its radioactive waste contaminated the ground water for almost four decades (Associated Press, 1988). — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 2690 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Strict 1970s waste-disposal laws perversely multiplied abandoned hazardous-waste sites — Richard J. Lazarus, The Making of Environmental Law, 484; The euphemism ‘depleted’ masks uranium’s radioactive and chemical threat in munitions — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 603; Soil-sequestered chemicals travel underground streams to poison wells long after release — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 975 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Regulatory reclassification of radioactive waste allowed unregulated disposal that contaminated groundwater #corroborates (0.98) — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 2690