Our View on Waste Storage Semantics and SRS Fate
An NRC report questions underground burial of high level wastes at Yucca Mountain and presses semantic limits on a 10 000 year guarantee. DWPF at SRS will soon encase wastes in glass logs for storage, with canisters housed in on site buildings until a repository exists. Experts debate the guarantee’s strictness, but DWPF output remains usable. call for aligned NRC DOE EPA policy and a clear disposal method within four decades.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Research Council
Savannah River
SRS
Yucca Mountain
Nev
Defense Waste Processing Facility
DWPF
NRC
Department of Energy
Environmental Protection Agency
DOE
EPA
Libertarian Letter Highlights Government Control Debate
A Libertarian letter to the editor argues truth in Aiken County is endangered by a council hearing on sewer and water plans and a critical July article. It accuses press and officials of misinformation, urges fairness in taxation, denounces government monopolies, and urges rejecting the local option sales tax as a stand for leadership integrity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aiken County
Libertarian Party
Council
New Ellenton
Shaw
Aiken Standard
Carl Langley
COG
Commission On the Future
Questio
Randy Shaw
Carrol H. Warner
Anaclerio
South Carolina
Write a Letter to the Editor for Aiken Standard
The Aiken Standard invites signed letters with the writer’s mailing address for publication. Keep letters legible and concise as they may be edited. Send to The Editor Box 456 Aiken SC 29802.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aiken Standard
Aiken
Conservatives Brace for Hardball Over Budget Crisis
The piece argues that the deficit and Gramm Rudman targets drive a looming crisis. It cites Budget Director Darman warning of unprecedented cuts if no deal, with potential demobilizations and job losses. It criticizes Bush for tax decisions, notes HUD spending rises, and urges conservatives to block new taxes and push deeper spending cuts to shrink government.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richard Darman
Con
Darman
Leon Panetta
House Budget Committee
White House
Congress
Leon
Carman
Panetta
Illinois
Phil Crane
House
Senate
James Bovard
Cato Institute
California
Colorado
Kentucky
Louisiana
Montana
Wisconsin
Department of Housing and Urban Development
Bush
U.S
Feds
Tom Bethel
American Spectator
George Bush
Washington
Gramm-Rudman
America
Anticipating The American Vacation Three Weeks To Go
A humorous meditation on vacation planning as three weeks remain before summer breaks. The piece riffs on calendars, productivity, and national figures while tracing the rituals of saving days, plotting trips, and the tension between desire for escape and the workaday grind. It recalls family discussions, travel fantasies, and the culture of long summer getaways.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U.S
George Bush
Margaret Thatcher
Mikhail
Raisa
Why Not Pay Incompetent Athletes Note on NEA and aging
A satirical riff questions government subsidies for artists and athletes while musing on NEA funding and the idea of an old fellows endowment. It weighs fairness in pay, cites a jogger case and recent growth hormone aging research, and ends with light musings on aging and golf.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Times
National Endowment For the Arts
NEA
Jack Nicklaus
NEOF
National Endowment For Old Fellows
U.S
Ponce de Leon
Florida
Daniel Rudman
Medical College of Wisconsin
Also Mentioned on This Page
John F. Boyette
Jeffrey B. Wallace
Melanie L. Arney
Aiken, S.C
Sue S. Brown
Ellen C. Priest
Daniel S. Holland
Patrick J. Buchanan
Tribune Media Services
Can
National Lampoon
Europe
Trenton
British Isles
New York
Antron McCray
The
New York City
Ashley C
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