Yucca Mt. bitch deadline: Jan. 10
Known as Snake Mountain to the Shoshone, the Dept. of Energy wants to choke it with nuclear waste
Sharpen your pencils, folks. Only one week left to tell the government what you think about the plan to bury 70,000 metric tons of radioactive waste in a leaky tunnel in the middle of a sacred mountain in Nevada.
There are a number of frightening aspects to this plan, including the thirteen fault lines that run through the mountain, mounting evidence that radioactive waste in the repository could leak into the groundwater (only 90 miles northwest of Vegas,) and the fact that waste which is, for the most part, currently stored at the nuke plants where it's used, would now be transported by rail and truck all over the country. Twenty-car pile-ups? Train derailments? Bridges collapsing? Yes, these things still happen, and even the Dept. of Energy anticipates between 150-400 accidents during the 20-30 year shipping period. Cool. Awesome.
Nevada's citizens and leaders, native tribes and environmentalists, as well as the top three democratic party presidential candidates, have already expressed strong disapproval of the Yucca Mountain repository. And yet the project forges on. Send your thoughts to: EIS_Office@ymp.gov
or:
EIS Office U.S. Department of Energy Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Mgmt
1551 Hillshire Dr.
Las Vegas, NV, 89195-7308
Here's some handy information and talking points, courtesy of Healing Ourselves and Mother Earth.
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Comments (4)
What's the deal with the SFBG and nukes? The nuclear energy industry is the only component of the US energy industry which can account for the whereabouts of 100% of its pollution output. Coal plants just cough heavy metals right out the smokestack. Natural gas plants sink CO2 into the atmosphere freely. Wind farms are not required to bag and tag all the dead birds.
The blog entries on nuclear power are bordering on ridiculous. Have you ever seen the casks they use to ship nuclear materials? They are tested by collision with rocket sleds, dropped onto steel spikes, and smashed by locomotives. The only result is that everything is utterly destroyed, except the transportation cask.
Posted by Jeffrey W. Baker | January 3, 2008 01:41 PM
Sure, significant testing of nuclear fuel casks was done throughout the Eighties, and the footage is thrilling. But times have changed.
Posted by Amanda | January 4, 2008 01:15 PM
I think this is really gay and you should not do it
Posted by Amber Odenkirk | March 20, 2008 07:05 AM
u r the ones who r ruining the ozone and making global warming u stupid retards ur soooo friggin stupid dumbasses i hope u all die!!
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Posted by Amber Odenkirk | March 20, 2008 07:15 AM