Trump Administration Plans to Reclassify High-Level Radioactive Waste as Low-Risk [democracynow.org] via @democracynow
More fake news.... They're not re-labeling 'High-Level' as 'Low-Level' ... There are actually different levels, determined by their actual level of radioactivity. At the present time they are all labeled the same "High-Level", when much of it is NOT "High-Level".
Because truth is flexible......
Is it?
@JanGarber that's SARCASM!
This (reclassification) is absolute insanity. The long term impact will be to increase the future clean up burden and to increase the contemporaneous risk to both the environment (air and water primarily but earth too), animals and plants, and nearby human populations (increased risk of cancer, heavy metal poisoning and death).
If not done carefully, the result could be to create areas that would be mini-Chernobyl like environments.
Damn stupid idiocy.