Centralized Storage
With the scientifically unsound proposed Yucca Mountain radioactive waste dump now canceled, the danger of "interim" storage threatens. This means that radioactive waste could be "temporarily" parked in open air lots, vulnerable to accident and attack, while a new repository site is sought.
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| Document Title: | MOU Between the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Office of Nuclear material Safety and Safeguards, and New Mexico Environment Department of Environmental Review |
| Document Type: | Legal-Memorandum of Agreement/Understanding |
| Document Date: |
07/24/2019
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That's the headline on the Bloomberg article.
But it's not exactly accurate, as reflected by the sub-headine:
Kevin Kamps, an official with Takoma Park, Maryland-based group Beyond Nuclear, who drove to Midland for the hearing, said in an interview that high-level nuclear waste bound for Andrews would travel through major cities.
“The transport risks are for the entire country and they haven’t even been alerted,” Kamps said.
The article also quotes several other opponents to the proposed dump, including:
Tommy Taylor, director of oil and gas development for Fasken Oil and Ranch Ltd. of Midland, Texas;
Local Andrews County, TX residents, including Elizabeth Padilla (whose elegant quote is featured in the sub-headline above), a member of SEED Coalition, a legal standing declarant for a seven-group grassroots environmental coalition, Don't Waste Michigan et al., represented by legal counsel Terry Lodge of Toledo, Ohio;
(You can hear Rose Gardner interviewed, along with Beyond Nuclear's Kevin Kamps, on Sputnik Radio's "Loud & Clear" on May 22, 2019; you can also hear her "Voice from the Frontlines of Nuclear Waste" on a NIRS telebriefing dated July 19, 2019, alongside Diane D'Arrigo of NIRS, David Rosen of Midland TX, and Don Hancock of SRIC in ABQ NM.)
An op-ed in the New York Times by Deb Haaland, a Democratic U.S. representative from New Mexico, one of the first two Native American women ever elected to Congress, just last November.
U.S. Rep. Haaland spoke out strongly against the Holtec/ELEA CISF last month. The dump is targeted at Hispanic communities, on traditional Native American land, near the Mescalero Apache Indian Reservation in southeaster New Mexico.
As announced by Diane D'Arrigo of NIRS:
Posted July 19, 2019
NIRS Tele-Briefing
Residents of Texas and New Mexico are facing down the nation’s radioactive waste corporations and Congressional leaders who want to put massive, new nuclear dumps in their communities.
In this national briefing recorded on July 18, 2019, you will hear from frontline organizers about the steps they are taking to STOP NUCLEAR WASTE DUMPS in TEXAS and NEW MEXICO and the “Mobile Chernobyl” shipments they would trigger, as well as next steps needed to stop the US Congress from changing the law to make these dangerous plans legal.
Speakers:
Audio Player https://www.nirs.org/voices-from-the-frontlines-of-nuclear-waste/
NIRS hosts these quarterly national telebriefings to provide an opportunity for our supporters and the general public to share an evening with people confronting nuclear energy and environmental problems and to learn more.
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See the July 16, 2019 Motion filed by environmental watch-dog organization Pilgrim Watch, in the context of Holtec International/SNC-Lavalin's takeover of the permanently shutdown Pilgrim atomic reactor license for decommissioning and irradiated nuclear fuel management purposes.
July 24, 2019