Santa Fe county is over-the-top nuts to be worried about surplus plutonium being a new hazard, but so is DOE for considering to ship it to LANL to convert the pure elemental product into unusable Pu waste?
Of which gets shipped to WIPP (TRU waste?) The commission is afraid to drive up the hill to LANL if the Pu arrives..... As if there is actually a hazard and as if there isn't already some there.
"the lab will process the surplus weapons-grade plutonium into powdered plutonium oxide, which will then be transported to the Savannah River National Laboratory in South Carolina to be made unusable for weapons. Once processed, the material would be stored underground at the nation’s only permanent, deep geologic radioactive waste repository, the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant near in southeastern New Mexico."
