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Dear Friend,
Bad nuclear
bills could be introduced soon in the US Senate--to push
dangerous nuclear waste dumps that cannot isolate the waste
and that will put us all at risk for decades, from radioactive
transport. These false solutions only make the nuclear waste
problems worse.
Take
Action now.
Without
bringing us any closer to isolating nuclear waste permanently,
both Yucca and Consolidated “Interim” Storage sites, expected
to be in the upcoming bills, would trigger decades of
potentially deadly radioactive waste transport through nearly
90% of Congressional districts including cities, farmland and
waterways.
Tell
your Senators:
NO
nuclear transport back and forth across the country to
inadequate or "interim" sites!
NO Yucca
Mountain funding--take it off the table!*
NO funding
or authorization for Consolidated “Interim” Storage (CIS or
MRS) Nuke Dumps.
Consolidated
"Interim" Storage sites would be supposedly temporary, but are
very likely to become permanent. These sites are not designed
for long term isolation, threaten major water sources, nearby
communities, and local economies as well as residents and
travelers along transport routes across the
country.
*NO funding to restart licensing of
the proposed and previously-cancelled Yucca Mountain
site, near
volcanoes, seismic fault lines and precious water, on sacred
Native American land whose indigenous rights and treaty rights
would be violated. The State of Nevada remains steadfastly
opposed in order to protect Nevada’s water rights and other
rights that the Yucca Mountain project would
violate.
Be
sure your US Senators know of your opposition to Yucca Mountain
and Consolidated “Interim” Storage Dumps and urge them to
support Hardened
On-Site Storage HOSS in monitored, inspectable storage
systems, hardened against attacks or natural
disasters.
At the end
of the March 27, 2019 Appropriations Hearing on
Department of Energy Appropriations, Senator Alexander, R, TN,
stated that the Senate committee and subcommittee leaders in
committees with jurisdiction over nuclear waste (Senators
Feinstein D-CA, Alexander R-TN, Murkowski R-AK, and
Manchin D-WV) would meet with DOE Secretary Perry in the next
two weeks to develop legislation to resolve the stalemate over
nuclear waste and Yucca Mountain, to cancel it or decide to
proceed with it.
Let
your Senators know NOW
how you feel about huge amounts of high level radioactive
waste being shipped throughout the country for decades to
“temporary” sites such as in New Mexico and Texas and to the
unsuitable, inadequate Yucca Mountain site that will not
isolate nuclear waste permanently or even long
term.
Thanks for all you
do!
Diane
D'Arrigo
Nuclear Information and
Resource Service
Radioactive Waste Project
Director
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