Watch out for revived drive for parking lot dumps!

While the court ruling on July 1st against the Yucca dump is a major environmental justice victory for the Western Shoshone Indian Nation, President Obama's Blue Ribbon Commission for America's Nuclear Future is advocating "centralized interim storage" for commercial high-level radioactive waste -- de facto permanent parking lot dumps. In 2006, NRC (does it stand for Nuclear Racism Commission?!) approved a license for a parking lot dump for 40,000 metric tons of irradiated nuclear fuel on the tiny Skull Valley Goshutes Indian Reservation in Utah. Expect that fight to heat up big time as the Yucca dump's prospects fade!