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Oct282015

Submit public comments to NRC against Yucca dump & Mobile Chernobyl on national call-in Nov. 12, or written comments any time till Nov. 20

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is holding another national public comments call-in tele-conference, regarding the proposed Yucca Mountain, NV high-level radioactive waste dump, on:

Thursday, November 12, 2015, from 2:00 p.m. until 4:00 p.m. Eastern Time. 

The number for this teleconference is 888-790-2936, and the passcode is 1715992.

(Note that you can make written public comments at any time up to the Nov. 20th deadline via the Federal Rulemaking Web site -- go to http://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2015-0051 -- or, by mailing comments to Cindy Bladey, Office of Administration, Mail Stop: OWFN-12-H08, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001.)

Please see Beyond Nuclear's Yucca Mountain website section, below, for additional background information, including: news from earlier in-person public comment hearings; sample talking points, from Beyond Nuclear and allies such as the State of Nevada Agency for Nuclear Projects, the Western Shoshone Indian Nation, and other environmental/justice groups, that you can use to prepare your own public comments; and additional insights into the unnecessary, unwise Yucca dump proposal, and the Mobile Chernobyl risks it would launch on our roads, rails, and waterways, in the form of high-level radioactive waste shipments by truck, train, and barge through most states.