DOE proposes doubling Yucca Mountain Capacity. DOE Press Release, NEPA Documents for Public Comment October 5, 2007

81 Organizations Sign Statement of Support for Algonquin Blockade of FVC Uranium Mining Site. NIRS Press Release. September 14, 2007

Sign on to support blockade of Canadian uranium mining site. NIRS Alert. September 05, 2007

Greenpeace joins First Nations and citizens to oppose Sharbot Lake uranium exploration. Greenpeace Press Release. September 24, 2007

Uranium Mining and Nuclear Pollution in the Upper Midwest, a fact sheet with action ideas from Defenders of the Black Hills. August 31, 2007

NIRS comments on re-write of Michigan’s mining rules and regulations, particularly concerning newly proposed uranium mining in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. December 19, 2005

Hard Won Victory Against Environmentally Racist Nuke Waste Dump Targeted at Native Lands! September 7, 2006

Tribal Concerns About the Yucca Mountain Repository. November 2002.

From Hanford, Washington to West Valley, New York, Indian People have borne an all out assault of exploitation and abuse from the nuclear industry.

Here are some NIRS factsheets, articles, resources and links pertaining to nuclear issues affecting Native Americans and other Indigenous peoples:

From NIRS' No Nukes on Native Lands benefit starring John Trudell, 8/24/02 in Washington, D.C. Sammy Blackbear of the Skull Valley Goshutes speaks about the proposed PFS Dump in Skull Valley, Utah

Southwest Research and Information Center Letter to Representative Heather Wilson on withdraw of the proposed legislation that would provide up to $10 million per year for three years to domestic uranium producers. July 27, 2001

Background Information on the Proposed Private Fuel Storage Nuclear Waste Dump

NIRS “No Nuke Waste on Native Lands!” Action Sheet, June 9, 2001.

NIRS National Day of Action Against Radioactive Racism, in commemoration of Chernobyl nuclear catastrophe anniversary, March 26, 2001 (alert, flyer , press release).

Private Fuel Storage's proposed interim high-level nuclear waste dumpsite on the reservation of Skull Valley Goshute Tribe 40 miles west of Salt Lake City

The Department of Energy's proposed permanent high-level nuclear waste dump on sacred Western Shoshone land at Yucca Mountain, Nevada

The Department of Energy's notorious Hanford Nuclear Reservation, which contiminates the Columbia River in Washington and Oregon causing cancer and other deadly health problems among the Yakama, Umatillo, Nez Perce  and other traditional fishing tribes along the river

Proposed restarting of uranium mining on Navajo land at Church Rock & Crownpoint, New Mexico

General information on Uranium mining & milling & the legacy of uranium tailings pollution, which affects Native Americans all around the Four Corners in the American Southwest, in Northern Saskatchewan & Ontario in Canada, and Aborigine people on Australia

Letter about Yucca Mountain by Western Shoshone spiritual leader Corbin Harney of the Shundahai Network, October 24, 2000.

NIRS press advisory, “Protest Against Cook Nuclear Plant for Attempting to Dump High-Level Wastes on Native American Reservation in Utah,” Airplane banner (“Don't Cook Native Lands with Waste Dumps!") flying over the Cook Nuclear Power Plant, June 15, 2000.

Protest Against Dumping Nuclear Wastes on Native American Lands Held at University of Michigan, NIRS press release, October 26, 2000.

Nuclear Waste + Native Lands= Environmental Racism. NIRS Alert. October 24, 2000.

Prairie Island, Minnesota - reactor and dry cask high level waste storage, below the flood plain, in the middle of the Mississippi River, immediately adjacent to the Prairie Island Mdewakanton Dakota Reservation. Link to the Prairie Island Coalition.