Stop Mobile Chernobyl
Mobile Chernobyl is the popular name for nuclear industry-serving legislation pending in Congress that would send tens of thousands of high-level nuclear waste shipments across the US over the next 30 years. Also known as the Nuclear waste Policy Act of 1997 (S 104 — though it may get a new number soon), the bill would redirect nuclear waste policy. It would put up a parking lot dump next to a site in Nevada called Yucca Mountain that should already be disqualified as a nuclear waste disposal site. All environmental laws would be seriously curtailed or waved from the program. There would be unrealistic deadlines imposed on the system. Inherently dangerous activities like moving nuclear waste should not be done in a hurry. (More info at www.nirs.org, or call NIRS at 202-328-0002.)
The commercial nuclear power industry, the generator of most of this waste, wants to dump it on the taxpayers. They are facing competition from a deregulated utility market. These bills give the waste to the public, letting utilities off the hook, before we have a permanent waste "solution."
All in all, what you get is the radiological equivalent of 2.3 atom bombs (the persistent radiation released by a blast) sitting in containers rated for 100 years on a parking lot. And an unstable one at that! There have been 624 quakes over 2.5 on the Richter scale within a 50 mile radius of Yucca Mountain between 1987 and 1997. This is not a "solution."
And on the way to Yucca, the nuclear waste will travel through 43 states, through the front yards of 50 million Americans who live within a half-mile on either side of the projected transport routes. In the Northeastern US, cities such as Buffalo, Syracuse, Rochester, Hartford, New Haven, Waterbury, CT; Plymouth, Greenfield and Springfield MA; Dover NH and Portland, ME are on projected transport routes. (Check out the map on reverse side of this Alert)
THIS BILL HAS ALREADY PASSED BOTH HOUSE AND SENATE — PRESIDENT CLINTON HAS VOWED TO VETO THIS BILL, BUT THE BOOSTERS ARE TRYING TO BUST THE MARGIN NEEDED TO SUSTAIN A VETO. BOOSTERS ARE TRYING TO ForCE A VOTE IN THE U.S. SENATE BY MEMorIAL DAY — IF THEY HAVE THE VOTES, LET'S STOP THEM!
CALLS ARE NEEDED NOW!!!! SENATE SWITCH BOARD: 202-224-3121
LETTERS: YOUR SENATor, US Senate, Washington, DC 20510 SPREAD THE WorD!
Please Support these Senators that voted AGAINST Mobile Chernobyl in the past. Let them know they have your backing, the nuclear industry is trying to beg and steal votes! We have to KEEP every vote we have had in the past, then we win again this year!
NY: Moynihan CT: Dodd & Leiberman; MA: Kennedy & Kerry; RI: Reed, (and we might be able to get Chafee) NJ: Lautenberg & Torricelli, DE: Biden, MD: Sarbanes & Mikulski, WV: Rockefeller & Byrd, LA: Breaux &Landrieu, IN: Coats, KY: Ford, OH: Glen, WI: Feingold, MN: Wellstone, , IL: Durbin, NE: Kerrey ND: Dorgan & Conrad, SD: Daschle, MT: Baucus, AR: Bumpers, CO: Campbell, NM: Bingaman, CA: Boxer and Feinstein NV: Bryan & Reid, HI: Akaka & Inouye,
TOGETHER WE STOP MOBILE CHERNOBYL!
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