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Monday
Sep072020

The Dangers of Transporting Nuclear Waste/Stop Environmentally Unjust Nuclear Dumps

Video presentation recorded on July 8, 2020, published on Sept. 7, 2020, on "The Dangers of Transporting High-Level Radioactive Waste." Beyond Nuclear's radioactive waste specialist, Kevin Kamps, presents from the beginning to the 22 minute mark in the recording, followed by Tim Judson, Ex. Dir. of NIRS.

A big focus was the transport risk associated with consolidated interim storage facilities (de facto permanent, surface storage, parking lots dumps) for irradiated nuclear fuel, targeted at New Mexico and Texas, but also the permanent dump-site targeted at Western Shoshone land at Yucca Mountain, Nevada.

Catherine Skopic was a lead organizer of the event, and the Manhattan Sierra Club Chapter a primary sponsor.

View the recording here.

Environment TV (ETV) provided this write up:

This video is an excerpt from a ZOOM event entitled: STOP ENVIRONMENTALLY UNJUST NUCLEAR DUMPS.
To view the full version go to: @ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RwuG... which is on the You Tube Channel: PeaceActionNewYorkSt and they have given ETV permission to edit their event for our various communications platforms.
This excerpt was edited for the Westchester public access TV station of Altice, for our sister show, Environmental News and Views with Host/producer Marilyn Elie.
The original event had this program:
Speakers;
KAREN CAMPBLIN - NAACP Environment & Climate Justice Committee Chair
LEONA MORGAN - Dine, Navajo Organizer; Co-Founder, Nuclear Issues Study Group
KEVIN KAMPS - Beyond Nuclear; Nuclear Waste Watchdog
ROSE GARDNER - Alliance for Environmental Strategies, New Mexico
Support Speakers:
MICHEL LEE, Esq. - Sr. Analyst, Promoting Health and Sustainable Energy (PHASE)
MARI INOUE, Esq. - Co-Founder, Manhattan Project for A Nuclear-Free World
TIM JUDSON - Executive Director, Nuclear Information Resource Service (NIRS)
Our Goals:
1. Inform organizations/individuals about the proposed nuclear landfills & nuclear dumps
2. Inspire people to submit comments to NRC before [Sept. 22, Oct., and Nov. 3 deadlines]; write letters to editors
3. We Can Stop This - encourage actions to prevent the EJ violation of nuclear landfills & dumps

View the recording here.