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North Tonawanand, New York (WKBW) – The shortest unanimous vote by the North Tanuanda City Council on the use of nuclear energy to extract the encrypted currency, a step that the residents said is a victory to protect the environment and public health.

The decision came months after the debate about Digihost, a encryption factory that was exploring the possibility of using a small nuclear reactor to operate its operations.

“The full idea behind this is to ensure that we are protecting our neighborhoods,” said the mayor of North Tunanda Austin Taylik.

North Tonawanda is currently lacking laws to divide areas that deal with water energy and nuclear energy, however This new legislation Micro -nuclear energy facilities are prohibited within the city’s borders.

the law , That took a few months to formulateOfficials are supposed to give time to consider the long -term effects of these energy sources.

“This legislation really hits the brakes,” Mayor Taylik said. “At the present time, we just want to make sure that we are covering our rules and protecting our neighbors.”

Society concerns about nuclear waste

Residents like Jack Kanak, who had a background in environmental sciences, were noisy about their concerns.

Kanak said: “My biggest problem in nuclear weapons was that once it was produced in a site, the way things are going with the federal government, it should remain on this site,” Kanak said.

Refer West Valley demonstration project in Cattaraugus Province For example. The facility, which treated nuclear waste in the 1960s, was closed in 1972. However, the cleaning efforts cost the taxpayers more than $ 5 billion and remained ongoing, according to what he said. The Union of Primible Scholars.

Kanak added: “Years on the road, when the company is no longer present or who did nuclear chaos, people are left to clean,” Kanak added. “Who will pay for this cleaning?”

Fears outside northern Tonwanda

Mark Polito, a resident who lives near the Digiost facility, said the case exceeds the city’s borders.

“Nobody wants nuclear energy in the backyard,” he said. “No one. We don’t even want the noise that is still ongoing.”

Polito emphasized that pollution from such facilities also affects surrounding societies as well.

“People should be concerned about the air they breathe,” he said. “Unless we control companies that do such things, we are all in danger, and it does not matter if you live in northern Tonwanda or anywhere else.”

The following steps for the city

As North Tonawanda advanced forward, mayor Tylec said that the city has received a $ 125,000 government grant to update the division of areas, ensuring the compatibility of regulations with modern energy and environment standards.