We witnessed huge air releases from the Dresden plant and nobody seems interested in responding to these alarming issues in addition to all the serious potential homeland security threats from Route 6 to both I-55 and I-80. There is no routine policing for these areas and the trucking and rail industry doesn’t own up to any responsibility or accountability with regard to these life-altering-threatening and ending issues.

We witnessed the radioactive gypsum piles finally being removed by Waste Management from the Olin property in Joliet. Had a state rep with me who yelled “get me out of here now” then said the debris is going into our air and water in and around the surrounding areas. He then told us that the people living in the Smiley subdivision and surrounding areas are “THE Canaries in the Coal Mines”. None of the clean up or the original mining did anything to provide protection for the employees, their families or the communities.

Illinois wants to pursue the Olympics with the air quality numbers being near to that of Beijing? In the Will & Grundy County, areas: Joliet, Channahon, Elwood, Braidwood, Dresden, and Morris etc. it is extremly toxic. We’ve got scars on our skin from repeated toxic releases and rashes from the air and water. Kids and families are sick and dying and it’s the excuse of local officials that they can’t or won’t police any of these issues. Yet they pose for every photo op they get while taking money from these nuclear facilities.

Those from the nuclear industry never seem to have issues promoting their interests but ask any of the CEOs, higher ups or even the regulators if they live near these plants and the answer is NO. Those who do work for these facilities such as the drivers who drive spent fuel it from location to location. only to have it refused and sent on their way; will or are and have been suffering and are dying tragically riddled with cancer.

The nuclear industries reputation for skirting the law or stating “there aren’t any laws” pertaining to trillium releases etc. is a drop in the bucket of more bad ideas to come.

For heads of this nuclear industry repeatedly taking time to raise money for cancer treatment centers and hosting fishing tournaments is an oxymoron. It would be funny if people weren’t suffering and dying. They pose for photo ops with politicians, it’ll never add up to enough to cover the cost of the loved ones lost trying to make a decent living.

Bringing Olympics to this unsecured area with the ideas that it’s safe is asking for more trouble than what it’s worth. Any mistake either by human or otherwise can never be taken back. Talk about health-care issues? There should be a study preformed as to why all these families are sick and dying in and around these communities. Don’t’ throw any more of our hard earned money and dignity away. Would you want it in your back yard? How can our elected officials work so hard keep it out of the hands of other countries? Stop pushing our people to look at it as a serious economic answer, when the outcome is all risks and potential disasters. Too many lives have already been lost.

Thank You for taking the time to look into these very real & true facts. Until everyone in the path of these nuclear notions are guaranteed a safe healthy outcome with no threats or ramifications of annihilation to: surrounding communities, employees and their families’ health, accidental-human error or terrible acts perpetuated in our country; stop wasting our money, time and lives. Prove that made in America means something to be proud of.