A Candid View of Government

Sunday 11 July 2010 - Filed under Government

Yep. The federal government is definitely looking out for our best interests. Matthew L. Waldo of The New York Times concerning radioactive waste disposal in Washington state.

The amount of plutonium buried at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington State is nearly three times what the federal government previously reported, a new analysis indicates, suggesting that a cleanup to protect future generations will be far more challenging than planners had assumed.

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The new analysis indicates that the chemical separation process was not nearly as efficient as the government claimed and that a lot of the plutonium was left behind in various stages.

It also suggests that estimates of plutonium production by the Energy Department and its predecessors, including the Atomic Energy Commission and the Manhattan Project, were not nearly as accurate as scientists and bureaucrats said they were.

I would argue that this kind of reckless policy on behalf of our so-called benevolent federal government is the rule and not the exception, and even if it were the exception, enough malfeasance exists in this case alone to question every action undertaken by the federal government, as well as the truth to everything it does.

2010-07-11  »  madlibertarianguy