It turns out that DOE’s conference call (see previous post) was not really an “initial public outreach activity” (other than the fact that it was their first public outreach on this topic), but rather was a belated damage-control job: the Department wanted to see whether it would be a bad idea to follow through [...]
Posts from ‘October, 2009’
DOE radwaste to Tennessee landfills?
I don’t know whether to castigate DOE for thinking of this in the first place, or congratulate them for having the good sense to drop the idea — I’m talking about the idea of sending radioactively contaminated soil from New York state to the Chestnut Ridge landfill in Anderson County, documented in Saturday’s News Sentinel. [...]
Grin & bear it on the west Turnpike
There’s almost 1 year left on the seemingly never-ending Tennessee Department of Transportation project that is adding median, curbs, storm sewers, bike lanes, and sidewalks on west Oak Ridge Turnpike. Today comes the news that the traffic light loops were cut at the intersection of Oak Ridge Turnpike and Nebraska Ave. Until [...]