Why Yucca Mountain Will Fail as a Nuclear Waste Repository. NIRS fact sheet (written by Mary Olson, NIRS Southeast)
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OPPOSE S. 1287 Atomic trains and trucks are headed your way! DOE wants to launch a rushed, ill-conceived campaign to transport tens of thousands of high-level nuclear waste shipments to Nevada with no good place to take them. The Department of Energy is going full steam ahead with the proposed Yucca Mountain, Nevada national high-level…
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A vote for S 1287 would result in: Endangerment of health for thousands of generations to come: S 1287 would prohibit protection for people living near the world’s largest nuclear waste dump and mandate a fatal cancer rate averaging one chance in 1000. Total cancer incidence due to radiation exposure would be roughly twice that.…
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But there is simply no evidence temperatures are anywhere near that high at any of the Fukushima reactors. As we reported in degrees (even accounting for the likelihood that temperatures were somewhat higher than Tepco was measuring—since it doesn’t know precisely where the hottest spots are–and/or admitting). There is nothing to indicate temperatures inside the…
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