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Dear Friend,
We must act now to stop Congress from
funding a dangerous nuclear waste project. The US House of
Representatives Energy and Water Appropriations Bill could
come to the floor for a full house vote the week of June 10,
2019.
Tell
your House Rep: NO YUCCA MOUNTAIN FUNDING Amendment to the
Appropriations Bill!
There could be a Yucca Mountain
amendment to fund restarting the licensing of Yucca Mountain
as a nuclear waste repository. Licensing of this failed
project was rightly cancelled in 2010. The full Appropriations
Committee voted NO against a Yucca funding amendment, but it
could be brought up again on the House floor.
Let
your US Representative know by email or phone--vote NO on
Yucca Amendment(s) to the House Energy and Water
Appropriations bill.
A vote to fund Yucca Mountain hurts all
of us. It is a vote to send many thousands of high-level
radioactive waste shipments to an unsuitable dump site—over
40-50 years of transports, traveling regularly through our
towns, cities, farms, waterways, putting everyone along those
routes at radioactive risk. Nuclear waste transport is
dangerous—NO insurance covers the damages (check your policy
for nuclear exclusions)!
Each of the thousands of containers that
would move daily or weekly on our roads, rails, rivers, and
waterways has more radioactive cesium than released from the
Hiroshima bomb and more plutonium than the Nagasaki bomb.
There will be accidents. There could be deliberate foul
play.
Just
say NO to Yucca Mountain: DON'T fund it, DON'T send nuclear
waste there.
Reviving the licensing of the proposed
Yucca Mountain site, in the high-risk volcanic and
earthquake-prone area of Western Shoshone land in Nevada,
throws good money after bad, violates a treaty, environmental
justice and consent principles, and threatens the water
supply. It wastes more time pretending Yucca can work, when we
know Yucca will fail to isolate the waste.
Over 200 legal objections from state and
Native American interveners have been filed against Yucca
which will take many years to address, if the contested
licensing process ever resumes.
Ask
Your Representative to VOTE NO on funding for the cancelled
Yucca Mountain Project licensing process! No Yucca funding
now, or ever.
Thanks for all you do!
Diane D'Arrigo
Radioactive Waste Project Director
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