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Nevada against nuclear waste dump for Yucca Mountain

Guy W. Farmer: Nuclear facts a dire reminder of Yucca perils Nevada Appeal , 19 Jan 14,A few folks are still telling us it would be good to turn Nevada into the nation’s nuclear waste dump, and that if we would endorse the proposed Yucca Mountain nuclear waste dump, they’d shower us with “free” federal dollars. Fortunately, that’s not going to happen.

I’d like to share a few fearsome facts about highly toxic nuclear waste that I discovered during recent trips to Seattle and Southern California. An op-ed piece in the respected Seattle Times by Tom Carpenter, executive director of a nonprofit group working for a safe and effective cleanup of the Hanford (Wash.) nuclear site, stated that “nuclear waste is among the deadliest materials on this planet. Not only is it toxic … (but) some of this waste remains radioactive for hundreds, thousands, even millions of years.” Much of this waste bioaccumulates, Carpenter explained, meaning that it can migrate to humans and attach itself to various organs including the liver and brain.
Yucca Mountain proponents want to transport more than 77,000 tons of that deadly stuff to our state, even though we no longer generate any nuclear waste. Like the self-serving congressmen who passed the notorious “Screw Nevada Bill” in 1987, they claim Nevada is a desert wasteland and that no one lives here. Well, Nevada is a much different state today than it was in 1987, and we’re now able to defend ourselves against the feds and the nuclear power industry……..http://www.nevadaappeal.com/news/opinion/9789363-113/nuclear-yucca-waste-mountain

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