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BEYOND NUCLEAR PUBLICATIONS

Yucca Mountain

Yucca Mountain, the Nevada-based, scientifically flawed and politically unjust proposed high-level radioactive waste repository has now been canceled. However, pro-nuclear forces in Congress have not abandoned Yucca and funding is still allocated to the project.

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Friday
Feb152019

Submission to the UN Special Rapporteur on the Consequences of Exposure of Indigenous People to Toxic and Otherwise Hazardous Substances

Submission, made by Principal Man Ian Zabarte, on behalf of the Western Bands of the Shoshone Nation of Indians.

DateFebruary 15, 2019 | Print ArticlePrint Article | |
Thursday
Jan312019

TRUMP ADMINISTRATION SECRETLY SHIPPED RADIOACTIVE PLUTONIUM TO NEVADA DESPITE STATE'S OPPOSITION

As posted at the State of Nevada Agency for Nuclear Project's "What's News?" page:

Updated - Monday, March 11, 2019

Updated - Saturday, March 09, 2019

The Nevada Independent - Presidential candidate Inslee condemns secret shipment of plutonium during Las Vegas campaign visit - By Jackie Valley

Updated - Thursday, March 07, 2019

Updated - Wednesday, March 06, 2019

Updated - Tuesday, March 05, 2019

Aiken Standard - Plutonium shipped from SRS akin to 'irradiated garbage,' Nevada court filing says - By Colin Demarest

Updated - Friday, March 01, 2019

Updated - Thursday, February 28, 2019

Updated - Monday, February 25, 2019

Updated - Friday, February 22, 2019
The Nevada Independent - Sisolak not attending events with Pence, White House over secret plutonium shipment - By Riley Snyder

Updated - Thursday, February 21, 2019
GovExec.com - Energy Department Defends Secret Nuclear Shipments to Nevada - By Charles S. Clark

Updated - Sunday, February 17, 2019
The Nevada Independent - The Indy Explains: How a secret plutonium shipment exacerbated mistrust between Nevada and Department of Energy - By Daniel Rothberg

Updated - Thursday, February 14, 2019
U.S. Representative - Congresswoman Titus Statement on NNSA Briefing About Secret Plutonium Shipment

Updated - Thursday, February 07, 2019
Sunbury News - DOE secretly shipped plutonium - By Scott Sonner

The Washington Post - Nevada seeks new injunction to block plutonium shipments - By Scott Sonner, AP

Updated - Friday, February 01, 2019

Updated - Thursday, January 31, 2019

Updated - Wednesday, January 30, 2019

[See links to NV's lawsuit against the weapons-grade Pu shipments, here.

The sprawling Nevada National Security Site (formerly known as the Nevada Test Site, where full-scale nuclear weapons test explosions had been conducted from 1951 to 1992 -- and still are, in terms of sub-critical blasts involving Pu and conventional explosives) abuts Yucca Mountain, Nevada, on Western Shoshone Indian Nation land.]

DateJanuary 31, 2019 | Print ArticlePrint Article | |
Sunday
Jan272019

A Nuclear Site Guard Accused Colleagues of Sexual Assault. Then She Was Fired.

As reported by the New York Times. Note that the Nevada National Security Site (formerly known as the Nevada Test Site) is located near the proposed Yucca Mountain high-level radioactive waste dump in Nevada.

DateJanuary 27, 2019 | Print ArticlePrint Article | |
Tuesday
Jan152019

Western Shoshone Nation submission to UN Human Rights Committee for 2020 Periodic Review of the USA

NEWS RELEASE
January 15, 2019, Las Vegas, NV
The Western Shoshone Nation made a submission to the UN Human Rights Committee for the 2020 Periodic Review of the USA. The submission updates the UN body on the status of USA human rights and provides information of ongoing and current treatment of the Shoshone people under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.
The submission reminds the UN that the USA has failed to respond since the issue of mistreatment was submitted in 2005 under the Human Rights Committee Early Warning procedure. In the past the UN body has issued Concluding Observations and ICCPR Legal Framework (2006 & 2008), "While noting the explanations provided by the State party with regard to the situation of the Western Shoshone indigenous peoples, considered by the Committee under its early warning and urgent action procedure, the Committee strongly regrets that the State party has not followed up on the recommendations contained in paragraphs 8 to 10 of its decision 1 (68) of 2006 (CERD/C/USA/DEC/1) (art.5)."

Additional issues made in the latest submission include:
  • Environmental racism in site selection of Yucca Mountain; 
  • Ownership of Yucca Mountain;
  • Ruby Mountain fracking;
  • Tonopah uranium mining; 
  • Religious bias of Supreme Court doctrine of discovery; 
  • Illegal use, occupancy and expansion (military and civilian); 
  • Secretary of Interior rewriting regulations to limit freedom of information;
  • Genuine breach of trust and failure of fiduciary responsibility by US intent to defraud the Shoshone people of their property; 
  • US media acting as propaganda conduit and not reporting or under reporting US abuse and instead publicizing American use and occupancy as positive, when in fact they are illegal use and occupancy.
Steve Newcomb characterized the submission as, “An effort to call the US to account for the violation of the fundamental rights of the Western Shoshone base on the doctrine of Christian discovery and domination.” The film, Doctrine of Discovery is available at www.38plus2productions.com.
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Principal Man Ian Zabarte
Western Bands of the Shoshone Nation
DateJanuary 15, 2019 | Print ArticlePrint Article | |
Monday
Jan142019

First step to a solution on nuclear waste: End Yucca Mountain

Guest column in the Las Vegas Sun by Judy Treichel, long-serving executive diretor of the Nevada Nuclear Waste Task Force.

DateJanuary 14, 2019 | Print ArticlePrint Article | |
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