Say No to GNEP, my Opponent, Judy Biggert's Plan to Turn OUR District into the World's Nuclear Waste Dump!
I am opposed to this program that will make a few CEOs even more rich despite the unspeakable risk to our community. It's yet another example of the incumbent putting the interests of a small group of individuals with big money ahead of the health and safety of our community. This small group of individuals, who stand to profit billions of dollars, do not even live in the district and no dump sites are planned near the town where Ms. Biggert resides.
The GNEP plan is to transport plutonium fuel rods and other radioactive waste on our community's interstate highways, streets and roads, with a destination of Argonne National Laboratory and/or Morris, IL. All it will take is one accident, either human or mechanical, to forever change the landscape and the health of the citizens of our towns. The routes will include I-294, I-88, I-55, I-80, and I-74. Transportation of weapons grade plutonium would be conducted by truck and rail from across the nation to Argonne and Morris, on our local streets and highways.
The downplay of the obvious danger of this program by Argonne and the Department of Energy (DOE) has been refuted many times over by scientists of enormous esteem like the Union of Concerned Scientists, Harvard researcher Matthew Bunn, and Robert Alvarez.
Judy Biggert, the 13th Congressional District Republican incumbent, is an integral figure in promoting GNEP in our region. A company named EnergySolutions expects that nuclear fuel reprocessing of this life threatening material will gain their company over $100 Billion in profits over the next 10-15 years. Read more...