Waste Transportation
The transportation of radioactive waste already occurs, but will become frequent on our rails, roads and waterways, should irradiated reactor fuel be moved to interim or permanent dump sites.
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As reported by La Jolla Light.
Yucca Mountain, NV is targeted for off-site transportation, for permanent disposal.
The TX and NM borderlands are targeted for off-site consolidated interim storage facilities, at risk of becoming de facto permanent surface storage.
The final event in Beyond Nuclear's Mobile Chernobyl speaking tour through MO, KS, and NE over the past two weeks will be in St. Louis, MO on Monday, April 1st. The event will begin at 7pm Central time. It will be held at Schlafly's Tap Room. For more info., see links below:
Join us for Nuclear Fool's Day on April 1st!
This year on April Fool's Day, joion us for a conversation on why nuclear fuel is for fools, and learn how you can get involved in building a clean energy future.
Blog post on Great Rivers Environmental Law Center website:
https://greatriverslaw.org/2019/03/17/join-us-for-nuclear-fools-day-on-april-1st
https://goo.gl/forms/RmnFWUlW3bImULex1
Facebook Event Page:
https://www.facebook.com/events/587240801776284/
The event is hosted by Kay Drey (Beyond Nuclear's board president), Beyond Nuclear, Great Rivers Environmental Law Center, and Missouri Coalition for the Environment.
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See Kevin Kamps' power point presentation, here.
And, as March 28, 2019 marked the 40th annual commemoration of the Three Mile Island Unit 2 meltdown near Harrisburg, PA, it is especially important to learn the lessons, and hear the cautionary tales, from survivors of that disaster -- including what they have to say about the risks of high-level radioactive waste transportation. That is why Beyond Nuclear is featuring the following three short videos as part of its current Mobile Chernobyl speaking tour.
See the following three videos/animations, which were prepared as part of a press conference held in the PA state capitol builiding, conducted by Beyond Nuclear and Three Mile Island Alert on 10/2/2018 (an earlier HLRW transport risk speaking tour stop, which also addressed reactor safety issues):
See a 2.5 minute video entitled "Radioactive Waste Transport Risks in Pennsylvania," showing transport road and rail routes for irradiated nuclear fuel shipments by heavy-haul truck and train, from the Peach Bottom and Three Mile Island nuclear power plants. The video was captured by drone, and shows an aerial perspective on the shipment routes. (As shown in the aerial imagery, and as documented in the 2008 U.S. Department of Energy Yucca Mountain, Nevada High-Level Radioactive Waste Repository Final Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement map in Appendix G, Figure G-36, Page G-128, as compared to a GIS rail and road network, the heavy-haul truck road route from Peach Bottom is on State Route 74, from Lower Chanceford, to Red Lion, to Dallastown, to York, where the irradiated nuclear fuel shipping containers would be loaded onto the Norfolk Southern railway; in the case of TMI, the irradiated nuclear fuel would use the Norfolk Southern railroad. A special thank you to Dr. Fred Dilger for documenting and confirming all of this in his 2017 documents, posted at the very top of the State of Nevada Agency for Nuclear Project's web site.)
Watch "Eye-Witness to Rule-Breaking," a 2-minute video prepared by Scott Portzline, documenting both low-level and high-level radioactive waste transport incidents he observed with his own eyes, in and around his home in Harrisburg, PA.
Watch a 1-mintue animation entitled "Nuclear Waste Transport," also prepared by Portzline.
And along those lines, read an article, "Mobile Meltdown: TMI Train Troubles," written by Kay Drey and Kevin Kamps (currently serving as Beyond Nuclear's board president, and radioactive waste specialist, respectively), which was published in the NIRS/WISE Nuclear Monitor at the time of the TMI Unit 2 meltdown's 25th annual commemoration in 2004.
All of these lessons learned from TMI, in PA, can and should be applied elsewhere, as in St. Louis, and beyond.
Nebraskans for Peace
There Can Be No Peace Without Justice
News Advisory - for Immediate Release
In Nebraska: Mobile Chernobyls? Floating Fukushimas? Three Mile Islands in Transport?
The Risks of Shipping High-Level Radioactive Waste through Omaha, Lincoln and Nebraska
Contacts: Kevin Kamps, Beyond Nuclear, 240-462-3216, kevin@beyondnuclear.org
Mark Welsch, Omaha Coordinator for Nebraskans for Peace 402-510-7565 NFPOmaha1970@gmail.com
Tim Rinne, State Coordinator for Nebraskans for Peace (in Lincoln) 402-730-6675
Just days before the 40th anniversary of the Three Mile Island (TMI) Unit 2 atomic reactor meltdown (March 28, 1979), join us for a discussion of the high risks of proposed shipments of irradiated nuclear fuel through Lincoln, Omaha and all of Nebraska, and learn how Nebraskans can help prevent it. There are plans to ship some high-level nuclear waste on the Missouri River to Omaha NE.
TWO Free Events, open to the public - Monday and Tuesday, in Lincoln and Omaha
Monday, March 25, 2019 at 7:00 p.m.
The Unitarian Church of Lincoln
6300 A Street, Lincoln NE
Tuesday, March 26, 2019 7pm – 8:30pm
UNO - Community Engagement Center
Rooms 201/205
6001 Dodge Street, Omaha NE
Free parking is available in Lot E - between the clock tower and library - and in all other parking lots on campus.
Just days before the 40th anniversary of the Three Mile Island (TMI) Unit 2 atomic reactor meltdown (March 28, 1979), join us for a discussion of the high risks of proposed shipments of irradiated nuclear fuel through Lincoln, Omaha and all of Nebraska, and learn how Nebraskans can help prevent it. There are plans to ship some high-level nuclear waste on the Missouri River to Omaha NE.
TWO Free Events, open to the public - Monday and Tuesday, in Lincoln and Omaha
Monday, March 25, 2019 at 7:00 p.m.
The Unitarian Church of Lincoln
6300 A Street, Lincoln NE
Tuesday, March 26, 2019 7pm – 8:30pm
UNO - Community Engagement Center
Rooms 201/205
6001 Dodge Street, Omaha NE
Free parking is available in Lot E - between the clock tower and library - and in all other parking lots on campus.
In addition to plenty of Q&A and discussion time, the 90-minute program will include:
In Lincoln, an inflatable, full-scale replica of a highly radioactive waste Legal Weight Truck-sized shipping cask will be deployed outside the event.
A presentation by Kevin Kamps, Radioactive Waste Specialist, Beyond Nuclear, addressing the safety and security risks of transporting highly radioactive wastes, and irradiated nuclear fuel, on the roads, rails, and waterways, as proposed in legislation currently pending before the U.S. Congress.
He will also discuss the risks of nuclear waste indoor wet storage pool fires for the entire region, and the interim alternative of Hardened On-Site Storage (HOSS), as well as the need to stop generating high-level radioactive waste.
Unfortunately, the Cooper (Nuclear) Station in Nebraska, a Fukushima twin design on the Missouri River, has been rubber-stamped for an extension by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission for 60 years of operations, until the year 2034.
An animation, prepared by Scott Portzline, Security Consultant, Three Mile Island Alert (TMIA), about radioactive waste transport risks, will be shown. So too will a 90-second aerial drone-captured video, featuring transport routes in Pennsylvania. A short informational video, “Nuclear Transports – Eye-Witness to Rule-breaking,” also prepared by Portzline, will be shown. Lessons learned from Pennsylvania’s TMI meltdown survivors will be applied to radioactive risks in Nebraska.
Nebraskans for Peace will share information on how to get involved locally.
Events are co-hosted by:
Beyond Nuclear; Lincoln Chapter of Nebraskans for Peace; Omaha Chapter of Nebraskans for Peace; National Association of Social Workers, Nebraska Chapter; Antelope Park Church of the Brethren and other groups.
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Nebraskans for Peace is the oldest statewide Peace & Justice organization in the United States. Building upon the long tradition of peacemaking in Nebraska, NFP has continually advocated for dialogue and peaceful resolution of conflicts, while steadfastly promoting the rights of all people throughout its decades-long history.
Beyond Nuclear is very thankful to Nebraskans for Peace, as well as the Unitarian Church of Lincoln, for hosting the event.
As March 28, 2019 marks the 40th annual commemoration of the Three Mile Island Unit 2 meltdown near Harrisburg, PA, it is especially important to learn the lessons, and hear the cautionary tales, from survivors of that disaster -- including what they have to say about the risks of high-level radioactive waste transportation. That is why Beyond Nuclear is featuring the following three short videos as part of its current Mobile Chernobyl speaking tour.
See the following three videos/animations, which were prepared as part of a press conference held in the PA state capitol builiding, conducted by Beyond Nuclear and Three Mile Island Alert on 10/2/2018 (an earlier HLRW transport risk speaking tour stop, which also addressed reactor safety issues):
See a 2.5 minute video entitled "Radioactive Waste Transport Risks in Pennsylvania," showing transport road and rail routes for irradiated nuclear fuel shipments by heavy-haul truck and train, from the Peach Bottom and Three Mile Island nuclear power plants. The video was captured by drone, and shows an aerial perspective on the shipment routes. (As shown in the aerial imagery, and as documented in the 2008 U.S. Department of Energy Yucca Mountain, Nevada High-Level Radioactive Waste Repository Final Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement map in Appendix G, Figure G-36, Page G-128, as compared to a GIS rail and road network, the heavy-haul truck road route from Peach Bottom is on State Route 74, from Lower Chanceford, to Red Lion, to Dallastown, to York, where the irradiated nuclear fuel shipping containers would be loaded onto the Norfolk Southern railway; in the case of TMI, the irradiated nuclear fuel would use the Norfolk Southern railroad. A special thank you to Dr. Fred Dilger for documenting and confirming all of this in his 2017 documents, posted at the very top of the State of Nevada Agency for Nuclear Project's web site.)
Watch "Eye-Witness to Rule-Breaking," a 2-minute video prepared by Scott Portzline, documenting both low-level and high-level radioactive waste transport incidents he observed with his own eyes, in and around his home in Harrisburg, PA.
Watch a 1-mintue animation entitled "Nuclear Waste Transport," also prepared by Portzline.
And along those lines, read an article, "Mobile Meltdown: TMI Train Troubles," written by Kay Drey and Kevin Kamps (currently serving as Beyond Nuclear's board president, and radioactive waste specialist, respectively), which was published in the NIRS/WISE Nuclear Monitor at the time of the TMI Unit 2 meltdown's 25th annual commemoration in 2004.
All of these lessons learned from TMI, and PA, can and should be applied elsewhere, as in Nebraska, and beyond.
Contacts: Kevin Kamps, 240-462-3216, Kevin@BeyondNuclear.org, and Henry Stoever, 913-375-0045, HenryStoever@sbcglobal.net
Cosponsored by the Rime Buddhist Center and PeaceWorks, KC, Kamps will warn that if the high-level radioactive waste dump site at Yucca Mountain, Nevada, were to open, 3,574 rail-sized casks on trains and/or heavy-haul trucks would travel through Missouri toward the Nevada site. Seventy-five percent of the country’s commercial atomic reactors are east of the Mississippi, and Missouri would be among states harder hit than others in terms of radioactive shipment numbers.
Missouri also has the distinction, says information from Beyond Nuclear, of being downstream from potential large shipments of high-level radioactive waste from Cooper Nuclear Power Plant (in Nebraska, on the Missouri state line) up the Missouri River into the port of Omaha.
Pending legislation, such as the Nuclear Waste Policy Amendments Act (H.R. 3053 in the past congressional session), could expedite the opening of the Yucca Mountain dump, according to Beyond Nuclear. That would significantly increase the quantity of waste that could be buried in Nevada, correspondingly increasing shipments across Missouri. The Yucca Mountain site would be limited to 70,000 metric tons of high-level radioactive waste burial.
But, according to Beyond Nuclear, so-called centralized interim storage facilities (CISFs) in New Mexico and/or Texas could mean even larger shipment numbers through Missouri. New Mexico’s CISF has applied for 173,600 metric tons of irradiated nuclear fuel storage capacity. Texas’s CISF has applied for another 40,000 metric tons. The CISFs have proposed opening and commencing shipments by the early 2020s.
Kamps plans to display an inflatable, full-scale replica of a highly radioactive waste Legal Weight Truck-sized shipping cask. He will show several short videos, including some prepared for the 40th annual commemoration of the Three Mile Island reactor meltdown March 28.
http://www.state.nv.us/nucwaste/news2017/ymroutes17.png The map shows KC as the hub for six rail routes to Yucca Mountain under consideration in 2008 by the US Department of Energy.
