During the Reagan
administration, six
communities across the
Southern and Western
United States were
marked as candidates for
an unthinkable fate — to
be the final burial
ground for 77,000 tons
of nuclear waste. While
most were successful in
blocking proposed waste
storage projects
relatively early on,
those on Western
Shoshone lands in Yucca
Mountain, NV were forced
into a decades-long
conflict to halt the
construction of a local
waste storage facility.
To
Use a Mountain visits
all six of the candidate
towns, and speaks with
those who live there in
order to reveal the
common conditions that
made the government view
them as ideal sites for
generations of
environmental
contamination.
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