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November 29 - INL CHOSEN AS POSSIBLE SITE FOR NUCLEAR SPENT FUEL REPROCESSING

November 28 - DOE SUSPENDS INL WASTE SHIPMENTS TO NEW MEXICO

Repeal the Nuclear Waste Policy Act
Eileen McCabe, Associate Director, Shundahai Network

As the prices for fuel oil and natural gas rise, and concerns about global warming take hold, supporters of nuclear power are taking the political opportunity to push for licensing of more power plants, and the implementation of new, and largely unproven reactor technologies.  State legislatures, Utah’s among them, are considering legislation to encourage the development of nuclear power plants.

A spate of new nuclear power plants, and the relicensing of existing nuclear power plants will greatly increase the size of the waste problem, the risks to the environment and human population, and the threat of nuclear proliferation. On this page we will focus on the developing issues of waste storage, transportation and existing and developing methods of reprocessing.

October 17, 2006 Shundahai Network responds to residents near the Dairyland Power Cooperative in Genoa WI, regarding a LaCrosse Tribune article mentioning PFS and other waste options.

October 10, 2006 Shundahai Network responds to Kennebec Journal article. Ratepayers in Maine are happy that a judge has awarded compensation to the owner of Maine Yankee, because the Federal Government has not taken title of the waste stored there. We respond with an alternative plan to the Nuclear Waste Policy Act.

Pete Litster joins an NPR discussion

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June 19, 2006
NIRS Press Release: Safety and Security Concerns about Derailment of Train Hauling Atomic Waste: Inconsistencies Raise Questions about Emergency Preparedness
We have just learned from Kevin Kamps of Nuclear Information and Resource Service, that a train bound for an EnergySolutions facility has derailed in Michigan. Disturbingly. no one seems to know what the actual contents of the rail cars is. Please read the press release above. We will keep you informed about when this train will be traveling through Utah, and what we will be doing about it. We will be posting articles shortly about the derailment.

Here is more information from Kevin Kamps:

At the Environmental Working Group website, is a link that shows the U.S. Dept. of Energy route map for rail and truck shipments of irradiated nuclear fuel (high-level radioactive waste) shipments if the Yucca Mountain dump in Nevada ever opens: http://www.ewg.org/reports_content/NuclearWaste/pdf/eis_j_IN-MI-OH.pdf.

And check out this incredible website from EWG – you type in any address in the Lower 48, and it shows you how close that address is to a Yucca-bound road or rail route for high-level atomic waste trucks and trains: http://www.ewg.org/reports/nuclearwaste/find_address.php

Here's a link to a NIRS fact sheet containing barge routes on Lake Michigan from reactors in WI and MI: http://www.nirs.org/factsheets/mibargefactsheet92804.pdf.

And this Public Citizen fact sheet shows why severe accidents (or terrorist attacks, for that matter) involving such shipments are potentially catastrophic: http://www.nirs.org/radwaste/hlwtransport/caskfactsheet.pdf.

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