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Oct242019

The most radioactive state

Who will be the ultimate bearer of the nation’s nuclear waste?

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See the article here.

It reports:

Though New Mexico will resist, and may prevail. “Folks in New Mexico are not going to take it,” said Albuquerque resident Don Hancock, who is the director of the Nuclear Waste Safety program at the Southwest Research and Information Center, an advocacy group focused on environmental and social justice. “We’ll stop this.”

SRIC is an Alliance for Nuclear Accountability member group, as is Beyond Nuclear.

While the article begins with a focus on the consolidated interim storage facility targeted at New Mexico, it ends with a focus on the proposed Yucca Mountain dump in Nevada, located on Western Shoshone Indian Nation land.