Kamps' prepared statement for press conference re: highly radioactive liquid waste truck shipments from Canada to U.S.A.
Ottawa Citizen map showing one of the more likely shipping routes from Chalk River, ON to SRS, SC for highly radioactive liquid waste truck shipments. (See larger sized map linked at end of entry.)Kevin Kamps, Beyond Nuclear's Radioactive Waste Watchdog, delivered a statement to members of the news media on a press conference call sponsored by NIRS. An environmental coalition, including Beyond Nuclear, has filed a lawsuit seeking to block up to 150 unprecedented truck shipments of highly radioactive liquid wastes, from Chalk River Nuclear Labs in Ontario, Canada through multiple states, to Savannah River Site nuclear weapons and radioactive waste complex in Aiken, South Carolina, U.S.A.
See the press release and invitation to a NIRS-hosted press tele-briefing here. (The audio recording from the tele-briefing is available online. See below in the Update.*)
See the environmental coalition's lawsuit (Complaint), and associated exhibits, here.
See additional background documents here.
(Full size, legible route map -- see above left -- linked here. Another potential route, this one through the Buffalo, NY border crossing, is shown in a 2013 U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission document.)
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*Diane D'Arrigo of NIRS, who hosted and facilitated the press briefing, has posted the following instructions for accessing the audio recording:
The press briefing from earlier today is available on my Google drive – sharing with everyone…
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3nMrAEZqvOUaVk1NFpwNkluWXM/view?usp=sharing
It will say
WHOOPS
There was a problem playing this audiofile.
BUT CLICK either
at top OPEN WITH MUSIC PLAYER FOR GOOGLE DRIVE
OR
DOWNLOAD in the blue box
We will get it up on our website in a few days without the WHOOPS message.
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NIRS has posted the audio from the media telebriefing it hosted on August 16th at YouTube.
NIRS has also posted the audio, as well as the press release, at its website, www.nirs.org, under:
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August 16, 2016: 7 Groups File for Injunction to Keep Inherently Dangerous Liquid Radioactive Waste Off our Highways. Press Release. Audio of Press Briefing.