NIRS Action Alert- Comments on Yucca Mountain & High Level
Radioactive Waste due Jan. 10
Friends -- Below is a Yucca Dump Action Alert from our friends at Western
Shoshone Defense Project -- Please Act!
DOE is moving ahead to make the sacred Shoshone Yucca Mountain that is also
leaky and geologically unstable the nation's high-level nuclear waste dump (the
vast majority of the waste that would go there is from making electric power
east of the Mississippi River). This is categorically wrong since both the
Western Shone Nation and the State of Nevada oppose this dump. In addition all
evidence points to an active magma pocket below the site! Your comments are
needed now on a draft supplemental EIS designed to expedite the dump license!
THE DEADLINE IS JANUARY 10 -- instructions are given in the WSDP Alert below.
While there are other schemes afoot (The Bush Global Nuclear Energy
Partnership -- featuring reprocessing) the fact that the nuclear industry is
staging a "come back" is driving DOE (a nuclear energy promoter) to do ANYTHING
-- including multiple "baits and switches" -- to get irradiated fuel
(high-level radioactive waste) OFF nuclear power reactor sites and into the
tax-payer's pocket (when DOE takes the waste, it transfers off the balance
sheet of the corporation and on to the taxpayer's back). We have been fighting
Yucca Mountain for a long time -- please don't stop now!
An additional set of "talking points" that came via our friends at Nevada
Nuclear Waste Task Force are attached. If you live in a state with nuclear
power reactors -- or near the nuclear waste transport routes please DO look at
the attached talking points
(see:http://www.state.nv.us/nucwaste/maps2002/roadrail/index.htm --scroll down
the page to see links to state maps). DOE is now planning to use a
standardized waste container -- called a TAD -- (Transport and Disposal). These
containers are enormous -- and while they will reduce the number of shipments
of highly radioactive waste, the reactor-site loading of these containers would
be challenging, and accident consequences would go up. Rail would likely be
used more -- and while rail may be preferred for a number of reasons -- rail
bed throughout the USA has been deteriorating to an alarmingly sad state. Also:
regulations allow a shipment to sit in a rail yard for extended periods (up to
2 years) so security in urban
transport hubs may be more of an issue. (If you did not get the attachment,
send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] and we will send them
again.)
If you want the whole 9 yards the DOE document is DOE/EIS-0250F-S1D and is
posted at: http://www.eh.doe.gov/nepa/docs/deis/eis0250F-S1D/index.html
NIRS has a large body of basic information about high-level radioactive waste
posted at: http://www.nirs.org/radwaste/radwaste.htm See link at left called
Mobile Chernobyl to learn more about the problems of transporting high-level
waste and the Yucca Mountain dump-site site itself.
We encourage you to go on record -- even short comments will demonstrate that
people DO still oppose Yucca Mountain and are working to STOP MOBILE CHERNOBYL!
-- Mary Olson
NIRS Southeast Regional Coordinator
Please forward widely!
URGENT ACTION ALERT!! DEADLINE APPROACHING!
YUCCA MOUNTAIN, SACRED TO THE SHOSHONE & MAJOR FAULT ZONE, IN IMMINENT DANGER!
DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY MOVES PLANS FORWARD TO TURN YUCCA MOUNTAIN INTO NUCLEAR
WASTE REPOSITORY.
PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD DEADLINE JANUARY 10, 2008.
Public hearings have not been well attended, statements mostly in favor of
the plan to put all of the nuclear waste in the country in this one sacred
place. Activists were told that if we do not go on record with a statement, we
will have no legal recourse later on. Local papers & media spin have recently
stated that opposition to the nuke dump had dropped off since the passing of
Corbin Harney. The nuclear reps are confident to the point of acting like it's
a done deal. LETS PROVE THEM WRONG! MAKE YOUR COMMENT NOW & TAKE ACTION!!
Yucca Mountain is sacred to the Shoshone as an herb gathering site, for
rituals, and as a part of their stories. Yucca Mountain is known in Shoshone
language as Snake Mountain. Indeed it looks like a snake. It is said that the
snake was headed north when it froze where it is. Further more it is said that
it will move again and "flip around". Geologists say that there are thirteen
different fault lines running through it.
Citizens can make an oral statement at the scheduled public hearings or fill
out a form and mail it in to EIS Office U.S. Department of Energy Office of
Civilian Radioactive Waste Mgmt, 1551 Hillshire dr. Las Vegas, NV, 89195-7308
or by e-mail at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
HERE ARE TALKING POINTS: http://www.h-o-m-e.org/Yucca/index.htm
Western Shoshone Defense Project
So-Ho-Bi (South Fork) office:
775-744-2565 (fax and phone)
Main office:
P.O. Box 211308
Crescent Valley, NV 89821
Newe Sogobi
775-468-0230
775-468-0237 (fax)
"The eyes of the elders are on us. The fate of the unborn is rolling toward
the cliff, the voice of Corbin Harney is ringing in my ears, "It's on your
shoulders now...". Info from Bear Dyken. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
YUCCA MOUNTAIN FACT SHEET, TALKING POINTS, & MORE INFO: Healing Ourselves &
Mother Earth http://www.h-o-m-e.org/
The DOE released two Draft Supplemental Environmen-tal Impact Statements
related to repository changes and rail transportation of high-level waste in
Nevada.
Inyo County CA- Excellent Draft Impacts Assessment Report Comments due by
1/18/08
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