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Do You Want To Stop Yucca Mountain? |
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by lil' b
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12 Jul 2002
Modified: 15 Jul 2002 |
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take action! |
By now it is apparent to me that writing my politicians and signing petitions wasn't enough to stop Yucca Mountain from being the nation's burial site for nuclear waste. I now have the feeling I didn't resist it at all. I did what I was told, and nothing changed. I could give up or I could take action. The choice is mine.
What kind of action could stop Yucca Mountain? The Yucca Mountain plan involves every nuclear power plant in the country, and most interstates and railroad tracks-- which go through small towns and big cities. Yucca Mountain affects everyone. I could organize and inform people around the hazards of nuclear waste traveling through their back yards.
What kind of actions would actually stop the trains and trucks? If people in five towns along the nuclear sludge routes placed their bodies on the tracks and interstates, the nuclear sludge would stop! What if people in five cities and 30 towns stood together with their arms locked when the trains and trucks came?
Shove it back in our politician's faces: One Spill is Too Many! |
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I want to bury existing waste and stop producing more |
by JF
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13 Jul 2002
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Yucca Mountain is not the point. The risk associated with nuclear waste is caused by operating the nuclear power plants in the first place. The best way to reduce the risk of future accidents involving nuclear waste is to stop producing it.
That said, we have to do something with existing waste other than store it at nuclear reactor sites. Transporting nuclear waste is risky, but storing it at hundreds of nuclear reactor sites is even riskier. Nuclear reactors are located in places chosen with no regard for the safety of storing nuclear waste there. If we stop the shipments to Yucca Mountain, we will do nothing to mitigate this risk.
Much has been made of the risks associated with the Yucca Mountain site. I invite critics to nominate better sites. We can't leave nuclear waste where it is.
Perhaps someday a technology will be developed that will allow nuclear waste to be effectively neutralized so that it could be disposed of in more conventional ways. But that may never happen. |
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Walk for Mother Earth |
by Craig Stehr
ecocrafter (nospam) celticcrow.com (unverified) |
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15 Jul 2002
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The Walk for Mother Earth begins in Los Alamos NM on August 9th, and ends on Indigenous Peoples' Day at the Nevada Test Site on October 12th. That's 800 miles in two months through four states...in the summer heat. If you want to positively respond to materialism's self-destructive agenda for the world, join the walk! For more information: http://www.angelfire.com/retro/nuclear/ |
