Radioactive Roads and Rails

Schedule

June 19 to August 6, 2000

Cook Nuclear Plant (Michigan) to Yucca Mountain, NV

Contact: Kevin Kamps, NIRS, cellphone: 202-262-9518

Sat., July 1 to Tues., July 4: Chicago, IL

Wed., July 5: Gary, IN

Thurs., July 6: South Bend, IN

Fri., July 7 to Sun., July 9: Indianapolis, IN

Mon., July 10: Springfield, IL

Tues., July 11 & Wed., July 12: St. Louis, MO

Thurs., July 13: Jefferson City, MO

Fri., July 14: Columbia, MO

Sat., July 15: Kansas City, MO

Mon., July 17 & Tues., July 18: Omaha, NE

Wed., July 19 & Thurs., July 20: Lincoln, NE

Fri., July 21 to Tues., July 25: Cheyenne & Laramie, WY

Thurs., July 27 to Sat., July 29: Salt Lake City, UT

Mon., July 31 to Wed., Aug. 2: Central to Southern UT, including Skull Valley, and St. George, directly downwind from the Nevada Test Site, heavily affected by nuclear weapons testing radiation fallout.

Thurs., Aug. 3 to Sat., Aug. 5: Las Vegas, NV

Sun., Aug. 6: Nevada Test Site and Yucca Mountain, NV

The tour will culminate at the site targeted for the national permanent high-level nuclear waste repository, located on sacred Western Shoshone Indian land and crisscrossed by earthquake fault lines. We will join a commemoration of the 55^th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan at the Nevada Test Site, where the U.S. military exploded nearly a thousand nuclear weapons tests since 1951.