Somehow we need to let the public --- particularly the Texas public --- know that “low-level” radioactive waste can be radioactively HOT. Low-level waste is NOT “just”: “rags, syringes and protective clothing . . . .,” as the nuclear industry would have us believe. To quote from the Safety Evaluation Report related to the operation of Callaway [nuclear] Plant, Unit No. One --- published by the NRS’s Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation -- October 1981 [NUREG-0830]: “The solid-waste-management system is designed to collect, process, and package radioactive wastes generated as a result of normal plant operation, including anticipated operational occurrences, and to store this packaged waste until it is shipped offsite to a licensed burial site. Spent demineralizer resins, evaporator bottoms, filter sludges, reverse osmosis concentrates, activated charcoal from the liquid-radwaste system and spent filter cartridges will be solidified and packaged in 55-gal drums. Dry solid wastes consisting of ventilation air filters, contaminated clothing, rags, and paper will be compacted by up to a factor of 5 and packaged in 55-gal drums. . . . . “The [NRC] staff has determined that the expected solidified wet-waste volumes that will be shipped offsite or stored annually will be 19,700 cubic feet containing 1500 Ci [curies]. The dry solid wastes shipped or stored annually, will have a volume of 11,700 cubic feet and contain less than 5 Ci. [page 11-12. Emphases added.]

Hey Golden Boy--How did that pollution left in Colonie NY & Sayreville NJ work out for the citizens there?