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a Decade of Resistance - Dedicated to Breaking the Nuclear Chain
Shundahai is a Newe (Western Shoshone) word meaning "Peace and Harmony with all Creation" |
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Nuclear Free Great Basin
The Nuclear Free Great Basin campaign fights the dumping and transportation of nuclear waste in the Great Basin bio-region by linking communities, businesses and activists in a common strategy to stop the construction of nuclear waste dumps. Mission Statement for the Nuclear Free Great Basin Campaign Shundahai Network's Nuclear Free Great Basin Campaign (NFGBC) will work to help develop a strong alliance between native and non-native communities, activists and grassroots organizations within the Great Basin that are effected by or active in nuclear issues.NFGBC will network with other regional Nuclear Free campaigns around the U.S. and world, sharing information and participating in coordinated strategic actions. NFGBC will create educational material and action alerts on nuclear issues regarding the nuclear weapons complex as well as high and low level nuclear waste. NFGBC will offer workshops, presentations and training's to help activists in community organizing and the use of nonviolent direct action to generate public awareness and apply political pressure on nuclear issues. NFGBC will strive to insure that Native American voices are heard in the movement to influence U.S. nuclear and environmental policies. NFGBC will put much of our resources and efforts into working with grassroots organizations and activists in Utah who are struggling hard to stop the planned Private Fuel Storage nuclear waste dump. The Great Basin bio-region stretches through five states and is home to strong indigenous people and cultures, high mountainous alpine lakes and forests, deep winding canyons and rivers, as well as many endangered and threatened plants and wildlife. Sadly, this land has already experienced the deadly effects of nuclear weapons testing as well as the disposal of radioactive and toxic wastes in leaking dumps threatening precious land, air and water. Besides the ongoing active nuclear waste dumps in Nevada, Utah and Idaho, and the nuclear weapons design, testing and production facilities at the Nevada Test Site and Idaho National Engineering Laboratories, the nuclear industry has targeted two sites on Native American land for high-level nuclear waste dumps. Together these nuclear dumps would begin over 40,000 deadly shipments of radioactive waste through 43 states, 109 cities with populations of over 100,000 and thousands of small rural communities, as they make their way across the country to Utah and Nevada.
Accidents will occur. Even the Department of Energy predicts that between 70-350 accidents and over 1000 incidents involving will happen during the decades of shipments to the Great Basin. Current reports show that even the release of a small fraction of the contents of a nuclear waste cask during an accident could contaminate 42 square miles and if it occurs in a city (which is the greatest likelihood) require over $9.5 billion per square mile to clean up. Knowing this, the nuclear industry has lobbied to create laws exempting them from any liability once the nuclear waste has left the reactor. It will be the U.S. taxpayers who will be paying the huge cleanup costs.Over 1/3 of our nation's populations lives near these radioactive highway routes threatened by these accidents waiting to happen. For cities like Las Vegas and Salt Lake City the danger is even greater, as all of these shipments would pass close to schools, businesses and homes with hundreds of thousands exposed to the potential radioactive disaster waiting to happen.It is time to stand up for Environmental Justice and a sound nuclear waste policy. Indigenous People - from the thousands of native uranium miners to tribal communities suffering from radioactive contamination from nuclear weapons and energy testing and development - have borne the brunt of the entire nuclear chain.It is time to end the nuclear racism of our government and nuclear energy industry. It is time for a NUCLEAR FREE GREAT BASIN! Nuclear Free Great Basin Fall Gathering Oct 8-10th 2004:
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Nuclear Free Great Basin Gathering, October 6th-7th 2001 Skull
Valley Goshute Reservation, Utah.
Nuclear Free Great Basin Gathering October 6-9, 2000 Turning the West Desert Into a Radioactive Black Hole Fallout Hit N. Utah In the '50s Skull Valley Goshutes - Media articles Shundahai Network's comments to the NRC on the proposal from Molycorp and International Uramium Corporation to ship 17,750 tons of radioactive uranium sludge from Southern California, through Nevada to a uranium reprocessing mill next to the White Mesa Ute Reservation near Blanding in Southern Utah. Private Fuel Storage (PFS), a limited liability commercial consortium of nuclear utilities wants to site a "temporary" above ground nuclear dump for 40,000 metric tons of nuclear waste on the Skull Valley Goshute Reservation near Salt Lake City, Utah.
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