Yucca Mountain Environmental Impact Statement Meetings Pushed Back Major Transport Hub and California Site Added to Meeting List
YOUR ACTION IS HAVING IMPACT!!!!!!!
We recently asked you to tell DOE (Department of Energy) that they need to listen to you and your community as part of the Environmental Impact Statement process on the Yucca Mountain high-level nuclear waste dump, which involves the largest nuclear waste shipping campaign in history...200 Hiroshima bombs per container rolling down the rails and 40 Hiroshima bombs per truck...
Here is an !QU!: THE PREVIOUS MEETING DATES HAVE ALL CHANGED!!!
Giving us more time to organize around these meetings...and PUSH For M!WR=
It is VITAL that we use these events to elevate the prospect of 30 years of continuous high-level nuclear waste shipments in the consciousness of folks at the state and local level...It is also vital that we send the message that Yucca Mountain is a failed site. 219 citizen organizations petitioned the Secretary of Energy in November 1998 to disqualify Yucca Mountain NOW since DOE's own data shows that it violates DOE's own rules for nuclear waste disposal sites, and WILL leak. (98% of the U.S. burden of radioactivity generated during the Nuclear Age to date would go there.)
Tentative Public Hearing Dates and Locations as of 08/24/999
Amargosa Valley NV September 27
Pahrump, Nevada 30
Goldfield, Nevada October 5
Boise, Idaho 14
Ely, Nevada 19
Atlanta, Georgia 21
Washington, DC 26
Lone Pine, Calif.* November 4
Denver, Colorado 9
Caliente, Nevada 9
Reno, Nevada December 1
Austin, Nevada 7
Crescent Valley, NV 9
Las Vegas, Nevada January 11
Salt Lake City, Utah 13
St. Louis, Missouri** 19
* Lone Pine is not on a transport route, but shares the water that a Yucca Mountain nuclear waste dump would contaminate --DOE does not deny it, they list dilution in the ground water as part of their "containment strategy" in official presentations on the site!
** St. Louis has been added -- thanks to the noise we are making!
For MorE INForMATION about these hearings, AND TO CONFIRM DATES you can contact the DOE toll-free at (800)967-3477 or by e-mail:eisr@notes.ymp.gov
To check out the projected nuclear waste shipping routes in your state, visit the State of Nevada's Nuclear Projects Office and look at the maps. http://www.state.nv.us/nucwaste/yucca/travel.htm
You might also visit http://www.state.nv.us/nucwaste/eis/yucca/index.htm
for more background information.
DON'T STOP NOW IN TELLING DOE THEY NEED TO HEAR FROM YOU!!!! How far would you have to travel to attend one of these meetings? Are they going to pay your way?
WRITE or FAX Energy Secretary Bill Richardson (sorry, e-mail is nonexistent terms of making a "presence felt" in Federal Agencies)demanding a Yucca Mt. EIS Hearing in your community.
Bill Richardson, Secretary of Energy
1000 Independence
Avenue, SW, Washington, DC 200585
fax 202-586-4403
Send a copy to Mr. Lake Barrett, Acting Director, DOE Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management, (same address). You might also call his office to try and start the balls rolling (phone: 202-586-6850).
Be sure to include in the letter (personally written material really is the best) details about the routes in your area -- proximity to schools or hospitals, details of weather or other challenges that make your area unique. Emphasize what a large potential impact this is to your community and the fact that DOE has no credibility when it comes to generic statements.
IT IS VITAL THAT WE HAVE LARGE NUMBERS OF PEOPLE ATTEND THESE HEARINGS.
NIRS will help you with materials--fact sheets, our famous "Radioactive Waste Trucks and Trains Headed Your Way" brochure, and contacting people in these areas on our mailing list. Please network and help get the word out.
If you get a hearing in your community we will help you too! Call NIRS 202-328-0002. Ask for Mary Olson, or after Sept 6th, Kevin Kamps...or e-mail to maryo@nirs.org & check out our website: http://www.nirs.org
THANK YOU!!!!! Mary Olson
TOGETHER WE CAN STOP YUCCA MOUNTAIN AND PUSH For THE ONLY RESPONSIBLE NUCLEAR WASTE PROGRAM THERE IS -- PHASE OUT OF WASTE GENERATION AND MONITorED ISOLATION OF WHAT IS ALREADY GENERATED. DON'T WASTE AMERICA!
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