<Your Name>
<Your address, zip code, phone#, E-mail>

<Date> 
<Recepients address> 
 <City,state,zip>

Dear (person your writing to)
	
I am completely shocked, and dismayed to learn that radioactive metals and other materials from the maintenance and decommissioning of nuclear power plants and weapons factories are being cleared for free release into the marketplace.  The DOE has entered a precedent-setting contract at Oak Ridge,TN that could release over 100,000 tons of radioactively contaminated aluminum, steel scrap, and cooper (NIRS,2001). I am appalled that the generators of this waste hope to save or make money selling radioactive materials to commerce. I would like to call on the United States President, Vice President, Congress and all federal, state and international regulators and legislative bodies to recapture, stop, and prevent release, clearance and recycling of radioactive wastes and materials into consumer products and the environment.

I support regulation and isolation of radioactive wastes from nuclear power and weapons. I oppose the use of radioactive materials and wastes in consumer products and building materials including but not limited to metals, concrete, plastics, glass, paper, wood, soil, and equipment.

I call on the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission to reverse its efforts and expenditures to release radioactive wastes and to initiate a policy requiring regulatory control and isolation of all radioactive wastes. I demand the recapture and recall of radioactive materials and wastes that have been released into the marketplace. 

I call on the US Department of Energy to halt all releases of radioactive wastes and materials into the marketplace, to recapture that which has been released and to immediately
revoke the radioactive Recycle 2000 policy 

Recycling radioactive metals is not an option- we must cease the production of them. I would like call on the United States President, Vice President, Congress and all federal, state and international regulators and legislative bodies to research, promote, and apply alternative sources of energy to eliminate the need and generation of radioactive metals.  Green alternative energy sources such as tidal, wind, solar, and fuel cell technology can provide energy for a vast majority of the U.S; while lowering our dependence on polluting and harmful forms of energy production such as nuclear power.

I would like to solicit from you an answer as to why I need be concerned with radioactive consumer products, and how such practices have gone on in secrecy from the general public until recently.

Sincerely,
<sign name here>
<type name here>

Nuclear Information and Resource Service  (NIRS), 2001.  Received from the World Wide Web. Available: http:// www.nirs.org.