Radioactive Waste
A bit of background on Yucca Mountain
Although the proposed high-level radioactive waste deep geological repository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada, remains canceled, it was never legal in the first place. It sits on Western Shoshone land, illegally seized by the U.S government, and breaking the 1863 Treaty of Ruby Valley which did not cede land claims to the federal government. As Ian…
Read MoreReprocessing– the dirty end of the nuclear fuel chain
Alongside uranium mining, reprocessing is considered the dirtiest phase of the uranium fuel chain. Reprocessing — the cutting up of irradiated reactor fuel rods in a chemical bath to extract plutonium and fissile uranium — releases larger volumes of radioactivity, typically by a factor of several thousand, than nuclear power plants. It also results in…
Read MoreMobile Chernobyl routes across the Lower 48, bound for proposed Southwest dump-sites
See your state in these 2017 documents from the State of Nevada Agency for Nuclear Projects: 2017 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Nevada Agency for Nuclear Projects – Representative Transportation Routes to Yucca Mountain and Transportation Impacts (Cask Shipments by State) – Fred Dilger…
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