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Radioactive Waste

No safe, permanent solution has yet been found anywhere in the world - and may never be found - for the nuclear waste problem. In the U.S., the only identified and flawed high-level radioactive waste deep repository site at Yucca Mountain, Nevada has been canceled. Beyond Nuclear advocates for an end to the production of nuclear waste and for securing the existing reactor waste in hardened on-site storage.

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Entries from August 1, 2020 - August 31, 2020

Sunday
Aug302020

A message from the most bombed nation on earth

Ian Zabarte speaking at a press conference at a Nuclear Forum event he organized at the University of Nevada at Las Vegas in 2016.More than 900 nuclear tests were conducted on Shoshone territory in the US. Residents still live with the consequences.

A videotaped interview with, and written column by, Ian Zabarte, Principal Man of the Western Bands of the Shoshone Nation of Indians, published by Al Jazeera.

Learn more about the Western Shoshone, nuclear weapons testing on their land, high-level radioactive waste dumping targeted at their land, and more, at the Native Community Action Council website. Ian Zabarte serves as NCAC secretary.

Sunday
Aug232020

Nevada is winning the war, but Yucca Mountain is not dead

Robert HalsteadOp-ed column by Bob Halstead, published in the Las Vegas Sun, who recently retired as executive director after many decades of service with the State of Nevada Agency for Nuclear Projects.

Wednesday
Aug122020

Fort Worth doesn't need dangerous nuclear waste rolling through on Tarrant rail lines

Op-ed in the Star-Telegram, written by Peggy Hendon and Linda Hanratty.

Peggy Hendon is president of the League of Women Voters of Tarrant County. Linda Hanratty is the group’s environmental chairwoman.

Tuesday
Aug112020

Beyond Nuclear comments to the New Mexico Environment Department, opposed to the expanded Forever WIPP (Waste Isolation Pilot Plant)

See Beyond Nuclear's public comments, posted at our Repositories website section.

See the backgrounder, "WIPP History: The Forever WIPP Expansion & the New Shaft Permit Modification," dated July 20, 2020, posted at the CCNS (Concerned Citizens for Nuclear Safety) website.

The WIPP site is only 16 miles from the proposed Holtec/ELEA highly radioactive waste consolidated interim storage facility (CISF). And just 40 miles from there, is the Waste Control Specialists national "low" level radioactive waste dump, and propsed CISF, in Andrews County, west Texas, immediately upon the New Mexico border at Eunice. This attempt to turn the majority minority State of New Mexico, and the majority Hispanic and Native American southeast of NM, into a national radioactive waste sacrifice zone, is an outrageous environmental injustice. Learn more about the CISFs at our Centralized Storage website section.