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Ecologists in Action in the Murcia region, after meeting the claims of the City of Cartagena, has led to the Nuclear Safety Council and the Directorate General of Environment rejected the option of waste collection area Potasas and Derivatives in Hondon and storing it in the grounds of zincs.
According to the organization, bury it, and transfer all the toxic legacy to future generations is not the best way to address this problem of contaminated soils in Cartagena.
In the proposal the City Council, according to environmentalists, behind only the fact of reducing economic costs, but important aspects of environmental safety and public health management of these heavy metal contaminated soil and radioactive waste are obviated.
The maintenance of waste phosphogypsum, with varying degrees of radioactivity in the context of the village of Cartagena, in the long term would be significant environmental impacts and unnecessary risks to public health.
Ecologists in Action said that any performance and management of phosphogypsum waste must be in accordance with the Regulation on protection against non-ionizing radiation (Royal Decree 793/2001).
In this sense, the option with the lowest environmental impact to properly manage contaminated soils, is the collection and processing for transfer to a company handling hazardous and toxic waste in the case of radioactive phosphogypsum, appropriate collection and transport, and deposit in a store nuclear waste of low intensity.
Ecologists in Action are reminded that phosphogypsum waste containing radioactive substances from physical period (radioactive half-life) long, and safer alternative with less environmental cost and public health is to be removed from the disposal area and be treated as radioactive waste staying in sealed containers and stored in a location for that purpose, this guarantees that confining the very long term, ie a storage of nuclear waste.
They also complain that the disastrous governance leads us to attend again the failure of the assumption that the "polluter pays" because it is not the first time that in this region a company maximizes its profitability and enriched coast to avoid the costs of waste management, and leaving behind a huge environmental and social problem whose solution requires heavy investments that eventually take public money, not being made by those who have benefited polluting.
In this sense, Ecologists in Action remember it is the responsibility of management to prevent these situations, which must be applied to the fullest extent of the law and guarantees for projects environmental assessment before implementation recurrence.
Finally, the organization warned that if you follow the proposal of the City of Cartagena to keep the waste in the same area, Ecologists in Action will consider filing a formal complaint with the Committee on Petitions of the European Parliament for the violation of the directives on radiation ionizing and disposal of toxic and hazardous waste.
Source: Ecologistas en Acción
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