NORTHWEST LOUISIANA: Vacherie Dome near Minden, Louisiana.
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UPDATE, Oct. 22 -
The article here may be a STUDY to put the nuke waste in that salt dome. IT IS UNVERIFIED that there is nuke waste there now.
Commenter, Mac says -
The Vacherie Salt Dome was one of the sites being studied for nuclear waste storage, but it wasn’t selected. They picked and were working on the site at Yucca Mountain for years, but I believe even that project was closed down a couple years ago. Spent rods and such are, to my knowledge, being stored on site at various nuclear facilities.
shortlink to this page – http://wp.me/p2GNDM-wW
This tip thanks to RadChick http://www.youtube.com/user/ichicax4
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Here’s another document related to nuclear waste stored in salt domes:
Below is quote about nuclear waste information exchanges near the potential nuclear waste salt dome sites. Notice one was held at Camp Minden, Louisiana.
” Every other month in the four salt states with potentially acceptable
sites for the first repository (Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas, and Utah) ”
” These exchanges were held in Moab, Utah on September 24, 1983; in Hereford and
Tulia, Texas on October 7 and 8, 1983; in Minden, Louisiana on November 8,
1983; and in Richton, Mississippi on November 10, 1983 ”
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?hl=en&q=cache:_6DqmeFsxr8J:http://pbadupws.nrc.gov/docs/ML0404/ML040430104.pdf%2Bnuclear+waste+camp+minden+louisiana&gbv=1&nfpr=&spell=1&ct=clnk
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oops, my mistake.
The document says the nuke waste info exchange was held in Minden, Louisiana
[it does not specifically say "Camp" Minden, Louisiana.]
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well recently Louisiana (state of) took over the ‘camp’ and made it govt. facility … so that may be why.
great find!
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Lots of info on the net about the potential use of the Vacherie Salt Dome
as a nuclear waste dump… but has it actually happened ?
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yeah … I have a post on it … newish.
I think they want to have a planned ‘disaster’ in Louisiana to make the whole area a dumping ground.
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If such a disaster happened, it would seriously
hurt the entire US economy.
Louisiana is a key state in the US economy…
with oil imports, oil and gas production and
cargo coming down the Mississippi River for
export.
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The Vacherie Salt Dome was one of the sites being studied for nuclear waste storage, but it wasn’t selected. They picked and were working on the site at Yucca Mountain for years, but I believe even that project was closed down a couple years ago. Spent rods and such are, to my knowledge, being stored on site at various nuclear facilities.
oh thanks … will amend that post …
some allege that many ‘abandoned’ salt domes are full of illicit waste through illegal dumping.
I’d like to drop a geiger counter down Vacherie site!