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But Holtec is well within its legal rights and permits to discharge waste at the same rate as it did when operating, and it does not need federal, state or loca

• FollowingTheDao 4y ago
  Being "well within their legal rights" does not make it right or moral or good or healthy. "Environmental groups and residents are also concerned this could harm their community, as the Hudson River is already a federally designated toxic Superfund site. " “It may only cause a low risk to the environment as far as we know, but there are other options here, and why not try to minimize the harm?” So they are just adding insult to injury to the Hudson River. (I grew up on the Hudson River so I know its history.) The point is that Holtec does not want to pay for the storage for 24 years and want to externalize their costs onto the local people and environment. So it ends up being a little tritium here, a little BPA there, and a little PFAS over there, and then no linked to cancer can be drawn to a single thing but still people die and no one is responsible because they are all responsible.
  • rowanG077 4y ago
    There are always other options. If the current state of releasing the water endangers no one because the radioactivity it low it's a total waste of resources to do anything else.