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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 June 1, 2021 - June 30, 2021

Monday
Jun142021

The Hazards of Transporting Radioactive Waste from Vermont Yankee

Margaret HarringtonNuclear-Free Future, hosted by Margaret Harrington (photo, left), on Channel 17/Town Meeting TV, Burlington, Vermont.

Kevin Kamps, radioactive waste specialist ‘watchdog’ from Beyond Nuclear, talks with host Margaret Harrington about the hazards of transporting radioactive nuclear waste from nuclear reactors, whether Vermont Yankee or Indian Point in New York State. Reactors make plutonium in waste. Wherever nuclear power goes, nuclear weapons follow.

Production date: June 14, 2021

Watch the video 43-minute recording, here.