Stop a Mobile Chernobyl! Stop the Atomic Waste Trains!
The Radiation Trains Are Coming....
Gotta Stop Those Radiation Trains....
Washington, D.C.
Tuesday, October 26, 1999
10 a.m. to 11 a.m.
The Department of Energy is holding hearings on its Draft Environmental Impact Statement for its proposed Yucca Mountain, Nevada high-level atomic waste dump. Included in these hearings is the issue of transporting nearly 150 lethal high-level nuclear waste casks by train from Virginia through Washington, D.C. — all to an uncertain future at this flawed, earthquake-prone dumpsite. Each large train cask would hold the long-lived radiation equivalent of 200 Hiroshima atomic bombs. What if the fiery head-on collision between the Amtrak and Marc trains a few years ago in Silver Spring had involved deadly atomic wastes?
PROTEST! SPEAK OUT! JOIN WITH
Senators Harry Reid & Richard Bryan of Nevada,
Representatives Shelley Berkley & James Gibbons of Nevada, and Reps. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) & Juanita Millender-McDonald (D-CA) for a rally & press conference
at
Upper Senate Park Intersection of D St. N.W., Louisiana Ave. N.W., and North Capitol St. N.W. near the Union Station Metro Stop
A full scale model (18 feet by 7 feet) mock nuclear waste cask will be on hand
to provide a fitting back!QD! set against the Capitol Dome
For those of you who can stay longer, please join us at the DOE hearing at the Hall of the States, 444 N. Capitol Street N.W., kiddy-corner from Upper Senate Park. The hearing goes from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., and resumes from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. But you needn't stay all day, nor even wait in line: you can pre-register by phoning DOE at 1-800-967-3477 between 10:30 a.m. and 9 p.m. weekdays, get an assigned time to speak, and leave after you're finished. See below for background information and talking points on what you can say to protect public health and the environment. This is a critical opportunity to defend Mother Earth and future generations from the threat of high-level nuclear waste — please join us! For more information, contact Kevin Kamps, Nuclear Waste Specialist, Nuclear Information & Resource Service, at: ph. (202) 328-0002; www.nirs.org; nirsnet@nirs.org
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