Posted on 09/15/2011 10:13:03 PM PDT by Rabin
CARLSBAD, NM -
Dr. Dorothee Mûhl, deputy director general manager of Germany's Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology, visited WIPP, the U.S. Department of Energy's underground repository for disposal of defense-generated transuranic waste
The United States and Germany are the only two countries that are currently actively pursuing the use of rock salt for radioactive waste disposal, We are actively seeking to establish a "Salt Club"
By exchanging knowledge gained from our separate activities studying salt, both sides leverage their considerable "scientific assets".
You are ahead of us in the field of public acceptance, adding, the German government could learn much from Carlsbad in the area of fostering community support.
(Excerpt) Read more at examiner.com ...
R.
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