DoomsdaysCW<p>This from 2021. And yes, it's still sitting there. The alternatives? Desecrating <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/YuccaMountain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>YuccaMountain</span></a>? Polluting the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GreatLakes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GreatLakes</span></a>? Or maybe burying it underneath Congress? But until we figure out how to transport and permanently store nuclear waste, it is being stored on site. And not just in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Maine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Maine</span></a> -- everywhere there was a <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearPowerPlant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearPowerPlant</span></a>! </p><p>Armed Guards Protect Tons Of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearWaste" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearWaste</span></a> That Maine Can’t Get Rid Of</p><p>By Abigail Curtis, BDN<br>Published July 19, 2021</p><p>"In the summertime, the picturesque village of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WiscassetME" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WiscassetME</span></a> is infamous for its long lines of people hungry to try a lobster roll at Red’s Eats and cars that crawl through town on the often-clogged <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/USRouteOne" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USRouteOne</span></a>.</p><p>"But just a few miles south of downtown is a different kind of roadblock: 550 metric tons of nuclear waste stored on a coastal peninsula at the now-decommissioned <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MaineYankee" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MaineYankee</span></a> atomic energy plant that have nowhere to go.</p><p>"The change in presidential administrations means another chance for the federal government to make good on its promise to remove the waste, so the site can be closed for good. The Biden administration’s Department of Energy seems to be picking up where the Obama administration left off, creating a process for communities to volunteer to host the waste.</p><p>" 'What worries me is that there really isn’t any national leadership right now on this stuff. There isn’t an agency that has a mission and has developed a strategy, that has goals and is willing to act on it,' Don Hudson, the chairman of the Maine Yankee Community Advisory Panel, said. 'We’re currently in this limbo.'</p><p>"That’s a problem because the waste — 1,400 spent nuclear fuel rods housed in 60 cement and steel canisters, plus four canisters of irradiated steel removed from the nuclear reactor when it was taken down — is safe for now, but can’t stay in Wiscasset forever.</p><p>"The situation in Wiscasset underscores a thorny issue facing more than 100 communities across the U.S.: close to a hundred thousand tons of nuclear waste that has no place to go.</p><p>"Securing these remnants of nuclear energy generation is an ongoing task that requires armed guards around the clock and costs Maine Yankee’s owners some $10 million per year, which is being paid for with money from the government.</p><p>"After the government failed to remove the spent fuel, Maine Yankee and the other two decommissioned nuclear power plants in New England — Connecticut Yankee in East Hampton, Connecticut, and Yankee Atomic in Rowe, Massachusetts — took it to court. So far, they have been awarded a total of $575.5 million in damages during four rounds of litigation, money that has been paid out of the U.S. Judgment fund. A fifth round is happening now, and the lawsuits are likely to continue until the fuel is removed.</p><p>"All told, the country’s many abandoned nuclear facilities — including Maine Yankee — have cost the federal government billions of dollars, a sum that increases by about $2 million each day, according to Eric Howes, the spokesperson for Maine Yankee and two other decommissioned plants in New England.</p><p>" 'All the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/taxpayers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>taxpayers</span></a> in the United States are paying for the government’s failure to meet its obligations,' he said.</p><p>"But as the years pass, it seems that fewer and fewer people even realize that there are tons of nuclear waste on the secured site behind a chain-link fence on Bailey Point. Hudson and others worry that for many, it’s too easy not to think about it, diminishing the drive to find a better solution.</p><p>" 'Nobody ever travels by it. Nobody ever sees it,' Hudson said. 'It’s the classic out of sight, out of mind.' "</p><p><a href="https://www.mainepublic.org/environment-and-outdoors/2021-07-19/armed-guards-protect-tons-of-nuclear-waste-that-maine-cant-get-rid-of" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">mainepublic.org/environment-an</span><span class="invisible">d-outdoors/2021-07-19/armed-guards-protect-tons-of-nuclear-waste-that-maine-cant-get-rid-of</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/nuclear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nuclear</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/nuclearwaste" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nuclearwaste</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WaterIsLife</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/OceansAreLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OceansAreLife</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoNukes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoNukes</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoNewNukes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoNewNukes</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearWaste" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearWaste</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RethinkNotRestart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RethinkNotRestart</span></a></p>
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DoomsdaysCW<p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/KleeBenally" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>KleeBenally</span></a>'s on his cover of the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TomWaits" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TomWaits</span></a> song "Earth Died Screaming."</p><p>"<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Climatechange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Climatechange</span></a> is a consequence of the war against <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MotherEarth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MotherEarth</span></a>.<br>The <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/greenwashing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>greenwashing</span></a> of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>capitalism</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/colonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>colonialism</span></a> perpetuates the nightmare of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ecocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ecocide</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/genocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>genocide</span></a> of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndigenousPeoples" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IndigenousPeoples</span></a>.</p><p>"<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LithiumMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LithiumMining</span></a> is intensifying to meet demand of 'green' <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EV" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EV</span></a> cars. This means further targeting and destruction of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Indigenous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Indigenous</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SacredLands" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SacredLands</span></a> and water. Support <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Hualapai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Hualapai</span></a> & <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Shoshone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Shoshone</span></a> (and beyond!) resistance to lithium mining. </p><p>From mining, transport, milling, and waste, 'clean/green' <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Nuclear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Nuclear</span></a> energy is a deadly lie. There are more than 10,000 abandoned uranium throughout the so-called US that have been left to permanently contaminate our communities with deadly <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/radioactive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>radioactive</span></a> pollution. There is also no permanent plan to deal with the highly radioactive waste from nuclear power generation. <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/YuccaMountain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>YuccaMountain</span></a>, a sacred site for <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WesternShoshone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WesternShoshone</span></a>, is still being considered for a national nuclear waste repository.</p><p>"For wind turbines, solar panels, and electric vehicles, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ResolutionCopper" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ResolutionCopper</span></a> proclaims that they desperately need to mine the copper beneath <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/OakFlat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OakFlat</span></a>, a sacred site for <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SanCarlosApache" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SanCarlosApache</span></a>.</p><p>"We can't ignore the brutal impacts associated with the sourcing of necessary metals and minerals needed to <br>'sustain' unsustainable ways of life. </p><p>"<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GreenCapitalists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GreenCapitalists</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/colonizers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>colonizers</span></a> dream, while the Earth dies screaming."</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMrBYnKo9v4" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=iMrBYnKo9v</span><span class="invisible">4</span></a></p><p><a href="http://www.the-ciej.org" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">http://www.</span><span class="">the-ciej.org</span><span class="invisible"></span></a><br><a href="http://www.indigenousaction.org" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">http://www.</span><span class="">indigenousaction.org</span><span class="invisible"></span></a><br><a href="http://www.HaulNo.com" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">http://www.</span><span class="">HaulNo.com</span><span class="invisible"></span></a><br><a href="http://www.dinenonukes.org" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">http://www.</span><span class="">dinenonukes.org</span><span class="invisible"></span></a><br><a href="http://www.cleanupthemines.org" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">http://www.</span><span class="">cleanupthemines.org</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DefendTheSacred" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DefendTheSacred</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DefendMotherEarth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DefendMotherEarth</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateChange</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoNukes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoNukes</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoNewNukes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoNewNukes</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RethinkNotRestart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RethinkNotRestart</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoUraniumMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoUraniumMining</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoMiningWithoutConsent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoMiningWithoutConsent</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CulturalGenocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CulturalGenocide</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Genocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Genocide</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RestInPowerKleeBenally" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RestInPowerKleeBenally</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FridayNightMusicVideos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FridayNightMusicVideos</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FridayNightMusic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FridayNightMusic</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MusicForActivism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MusicForActivism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MusicForResistance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MusicForResistance</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>So yeah, I'm pretty sure the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RockyMountains" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RockyMountains</span></a> are more geologically stable than <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/YuccaMountain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>YuccaMountain</span></a> or <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WIPP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WIPP</span></a> in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NewMexico" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NewMexico</span></a>. And with <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateChange</span></a> trashing coastlines, it's probably NOT a good idea to keep storing used <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearFuel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearFuel</span></a> next to the plants (which are usually situated near water sources). However, we should only use <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearPower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearPower</span></a> to get us through until <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/renewables" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>renewables</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BatteryStorage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BatteryStorage</span></a> becomes efficient and non-toxic -- and NOT poison the future for garbled recipes or greedy CEOs (any more than we already have)!<br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearWaste" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearWaste</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoNukesForAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoNukesForAI</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearWasteRepository" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearWasteRepository</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>Unfortunately, the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ShundahaiNetwork" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ShundahaiNetwork</span></a>'s website is no longer maintained by the group. <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CorbinHarney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CorbinHarney</span></a> founded the group years ago. I managed to find it on the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/InternetArchive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>InternetArchive</span></a>. Here's a snapshot from 2002. I had a link to their website from the now-defunct What? Magazine Online back when I first heard about Shundahai back in 1998/1999.</p><p>"Shundahai Network was formed at the Nevada Nuclear Test Site in 1994, by a council of long-term nuclear disarmament activists, at the request of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CorbinHarney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CorbinHarney</span></a>, a <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WesternShoshone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WesternShoshone</span></a> Spiritual Leader. We have evolved into an international network of activists and organizations bridging the gap between the environmental, peace and justice and indigenous land rights communities.</p><p>"Shundahai Network opposes all nuclear weapons research, development, testing and production. We actively seek to close down the Nevada Test Site to all nuclear weapons programs except for radioactive contamination containment and cleanup. Shundahai Network also opposes all nuclear waste dumping on indigenous peoples lands. We are fighting to halt the proposed high-level nuclear waste dumps at <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/YuccaMountain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>YuccaMountain</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SkullValleyReservation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SkullValleyReservation</span></a>. We work to educate about the dangers of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RadioactiveWaste" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RadioactiveWaste</span></a> transportation and promote a safe and sane energy policy based on conservation and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/renewable" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>renewable</span></a> resources. To this end, Shundahai Network organizes and participates in nonviolent direct actions, demonstrations, workshops and conferences.</p><p>"Shundahai Network Mission Statement</p><p>"Shundahai Network, is a nonprofit organization dedicated to breaking the nuclear chain by building alliances with <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/indigenous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>indigenous</span></a> communities and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/environmental" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>environmental</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/peace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>peace</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HumanRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HumanRights</span></a> movements. We seek to abolish all <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearWeapons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearWeapons</span></a> and an end to <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearTesting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearTesting</span></a>. We advocate phasing out <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearEnergy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearEnergy</span></a> and ending the transportation and dumping of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearWaste" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearWaste</span></a>. We promote the principles of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnvironmentalJustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EnvironmentalJustice</span></a> and strive to insure that indigenous voices are heard in the movement to influence U.S. Nuclear and environmental policies. All of our campaigns and events incorporate the values of community building, education, spiritual ceremonies and nonviolent <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DirectAction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DirectAction</span></a>.</p><p>"Our staff and volunteers work on a wide range of community outreach, education and public action campaigns. Through our events and campaigns, Shundahai Network helps train activists in community organizing and the use of nonviolent direct action to generate public awareness and apply political pressure on nuclear and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndigenousRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IndigenousRights</span></a> issues."</p><p>Here's the URL:<br><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20021122082933/http://www.shundahai.org/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">web.archive.org/web/2002112208</span><span class="invisible">2933/http://www.shundahai.org/</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>So, many years ago, I created a meme with the late <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CorbinHarney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CorbinHarney</span></a>, spiritual leader of the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WesternShoshone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WesternShoshone</span></a>, and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndigenousActivist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IndigenousActivist</span></a> against <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/YuccaMountain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>YuccaMountain</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearDisarmament" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearDisarmament</span></a>. The only copies of the meme are very low resolution, so I decided to re-do the meme with a new image and type at a higher resolution. </p><p>“It’s in our backyard… It’s in our front yard. This <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/nuclear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nuclear</span></a> contamination is shortening all life. We’re going to have to unite as a people and say no more! We, the people, are going to have to put our thoughts together to save our planet here. We only have One Water… One Air… One <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MotherEarth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MotherEarth</span></a>.”</p><p>- Corbin Harney (1920 - 2007),
Western Shoshone Spiritual Leader.</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ShundahaiNetwork" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ShundahaiNetwork</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearColonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearColonialism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WaterIsLife</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AirIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AirIsLife</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Shoshone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Shoshone</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearWaste" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearWaste</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Pauite" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Pauite</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoNukes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoNukes</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoWar</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoDumping" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoDumping</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnvironmentalRacism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EnvironmentalRacism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoMiningWithoutConsent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoMiningWithoutConsent</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoDumpingWithoutConsent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoDumpingWithoutConsent</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ProtectTheSacred" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ProtectTheSacred</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>[Thread] The next installment from <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/KleeBenally" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>KleeBenally</span></a> 's book, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoSpiritualSurrender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoSpiritualSurrender</span></a> </p><p>“The devastation of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearColonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearColonialism</span></a>, which permanently destroys <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Indigenous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Indigenous</span></a> communities throughout the world, is outright ignored by some of the most devout <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateJustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateJustice</span></a> advocates. They claim <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearEnergy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearEnergy</span></a> production is also a <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GreenSolution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GreenSolution</span></a> to the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateCrisis</span></a>. More than 15,000 abandoned <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/UraniumMines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UraniumMines</span></a> are located within the so-called US, mostly in and around Indigenous communities, permanently poisoning <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SacredLands" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SacredLands</span></a> and waters with little to no action being taken to clean up their deadly toxic legacy. There are currently 93 operating <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearReactors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearReactors</span></a> in the so-called US that supply 20% of the country’s electricity. There are 60,000 tons of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HighlyRadioactive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HighlyRadioactive</span></a> spent waste store in concrete dams at <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearPowerPlants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearPowerPlants</span></a> throughout the country with the waste increasing at a rate of 2,000 tons per year.</p><p>“In 1987 the ‘US’ Congress initiated a controversial project to transport and store almost all of the US’s <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ToxicWaste" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ToxicWaste</span></a> at <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/YuccaMountain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>YuccaMountain</span></a> located about 100 miles northwest of so-called <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LasVegas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LasVegas</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Nevada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Nevada</span></a>. Yucca Mountan has been held holy to the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Paiute" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Paiute</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WesternShoshone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WesternShoshone</span></a> Nations since time immemorial. In January 2010 the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ObamaAdminstration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ObamaAdminstration</span></a> approved a $54 billion taxpayer loan in a guarantee program for new nuclear reactor construction, three times what Bush previously promised in 2005. In April 2022, the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BidenAdministration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BidenAdministration</span></a> government bailout to ‘rescue’ nuclear power plants at risk for closing. A <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Colonial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Colonial</span></a> government representative stated, ‘US nuclear power contributes more than half of our <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CarbonFree" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CarbonFree</span></a> electricity, and President Biden is committed to keeping these plants active to reach our <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CleanEnergy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CleanEnergy</span></a> goals.’ </p><p>“They, along with Climate Justice activiists, cite nuclear energy as necessary to combat <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GlobalWarming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GlobalWarming</span></a>, all while ignoring the devastating percent impacts <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndigenousPeoples" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IndigenousPeoples</span></a> have faced. There is nothing clean about energy produced from nuclear colonialism. From its weapons (including <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DepletedUranium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DepletedUranium</span></a>) to its <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Mining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mining</span></a> and its waste; Indigenous bodies, lands, and waters continue to be sacrificed to heat water with radioactive materials which creates steam that moves generators to change batteries made from <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Lithium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Lithium</span></a> extracted from other Indigenous sacred lands so <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Teslas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Teslas</span></a> can mo you forward into a ‘just’ climate future.</p><p>“A green economy sustains and advances colonial progress, which means mitigated selective and ongoing destruction of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MotherEarth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MotherEarth</span></a>.”</p><p>Pages 139-140</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndigenousAnarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IndigenousAnarchy</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Ecosystem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Ecosystem</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HaulNo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HaulNo</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DefendTheSacred" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DefendTheSacred</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CorporateColonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CorporateColonialism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoDAPL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoDAPL</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CriminalizingDissent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CriminalizingDissent</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WaterIsLife</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateDefenders" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateDefenders</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoCopperMiningWithoutConsent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoCopperMiningWithoutConsent</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoLithiumMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoLithiumMining</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CorporateColonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CorporateColonialism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoMiningWithoutConsent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoMiningWithoutConsent</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LithiumMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LithiumMining</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CopperMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CopperMining</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Greenwashng" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Greenwashng</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearWeapons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearWeapons</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RestInPowerKleeBenally" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RestInPowerKleeBenally</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RIPKleeBenally" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RIPKleeBenally</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/StopCanyonMine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StopCanyonMine</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/YuccaMountain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>YuccaMountain</span></a> Is Possibly More Seismically Active Than Once Believed, Geologists Discover</p><p>March 26, 1998 </p><p>PASADENA—"Recent geodetic measurements using Global Positioning System (GPS) satellites show that the Yucca Mountain area in southern Nevada is straining roughly 10 to 100 times faster than expected on the basis of the geologic history of the area. And for the moment at least, geologists are at a loss to explain the anomaly.</p><p>"In the March 28 issue of the journal Science, Brian Wernicke of the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and his colleagues at the [Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory] in Cambridge, Massachusetts, report on Global Positioning System surveys they conducted from 1991 to 1997. Those surveys show that the Yucca Mountain area is stretching apart at about one millimeter per year east-southeastward.</p><p>"'The question is, why are the predicted geological rates of stretching so much lower than what we are measuring?' asks Wernicke. 'That's something we need to think through and understand."</p><p>"The answer is likely to be of interest to quite a few people, because Yucca Mountain has been proposed as a site for the permanent disposal of high-level <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/radioactive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>radioactive</span></a> waste. Experts believe that the waste-disposal site can accommodate a certain amount of seismic activity, but they nonetheless would like for any site to have a certain amount of stability over the next 10,000 to 100,000 years.</p><p>"Yucca Mountain was already known to have both seismic and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/volcanic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>volcanic</span></a> activity, Wernicke says. An example of the former is the 5.4-magnitude '<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LittleSkullMountain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LittleSkullMountain</span></a>' earthquake that occurred in 1992. And an example of the latter is the 80,000-year-old volcano to the south of the mountain. The volcano is inactive, but still must be studied according to Department of Energy regulations.</p><p>"The problem the new study poses is that the strain is building up in the crust at a rate about one-fourth that of the most rapidly straining areas of the earth's crust, such as near the San Andreas fault, Wernicke says. But there could be other factors at work."</p><p>Read more:<br><a href="https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/yucca-mountain-possibly-more-seismically-active-once-believed-geologists-discover-234" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">caltech.edu/about/news/yucca-m</span><span class="invisible">ountain-possibly-more-seismically-active-once-believed-geologists-discover-234</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/nuclear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nuclear</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearWaste" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearWaste</span></a> <br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WaterIsLife</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoNukes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoNukes</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoDumping" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoDumping</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RethinkNotRestart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RethinkNotRestart</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>So, I found this article that talks about other possible <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearWaste" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearWaste</span></a> repositories (Pantex in Texas, and Hanford in Washington state). There have been problems with <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Pantex" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Pantex</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Hanford" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Hanford</span></a> because of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateChange</span></a>, and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/YuccaMountain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>YuccaMountain</span></a> is more seismically active than previously thought! Where to bury the waste is a HUGE problem that I brought up when touring the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SeabrookNuclearPlant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SeabrookNuclearPlant</span></a> before it was operational. Back then I was told, "Oh, we'll figure out that problem when we get to it. Don't worry about it!" Ummmm...</p><p>Western Shoshone Nation Opposes Yucca Mountain Nuclear Repository</p><p>"From our perspective the processes employed by the DOE is environmental racism designed to systematically dismantle the living lifeways of the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WesternShoshone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WesternShoshone</span></a> people in relation to our land . . . It’s not about the amount of radioactivity that would permeate the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/groundwater" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>groundwater</span></a> . . . The <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnvironmentalRacism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EnvironmentalRacism</span></a> lies in the very notion that it would be okay to put any radioactive material there at all."</p><p>Commodities, Conflict, and Cooperation</p><p>Fall 2016 & Winter 2017</p><p>"In 1986, the list was narrowed to three sites in the Western U.S. – Hanford in eastern Washington State, a site in the Texas panhandle [<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Pantex" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Pantex</span></a>] southwest of Amarillo, and Yucca Mountain in southwestern Nevada about 80 miles north of Las Vegas (see photo below)."</p><p>Source:<br><a href="https://sites.evergreen.edu/ccc/warnuclear/shoshone-tribe-opposes-yucca-mountain-nuclear-repository/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">sites.evergreen.edu/ccc/warnuc</span><span class="invisible">lear/shoshone-tribe-opposes-yucca-mountain-nuclear-repository/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Pauite" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Pauite</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PauiteShoshone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PauiteShoshone</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CulturalGenocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CulturalGenocide</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NativeAmericans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NativeAmericans</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/nuclear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nuclear</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WaterIsLife</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RespectTheTreaties" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RespectTheTreaties</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoNukes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoNukes</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoDumping" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoDumping</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/InformedConsent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>InformedConsent</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FutureGenerations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FutureGenerations</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/YuccaMountain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>YuccaMountain</span></a></p><p>via <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SacredLandFilmProject" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SacredLandFilmProject</span></a></p><p>Report By Amy Corbin<br>Posted October 1, 2004<br>Updated April 1, 2010</p><p>"For more than two decades, the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Shoshone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Shoshone</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Paiute" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Paiute</span></a> peoples, scientists, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/environmentalists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>environmentalists</span></a>, the federal government, Nevada citizens and politicians have wrestled over the fate of Yucca Mountain. The federal government had selected the mountain to become the nation’s primary dumping ground for deadly, high-level <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearWaste" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearWaste</span></a>, but the long-contested project is at last on its way to being closed. Meanwhile, the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WesternShoshone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WesternShoshone</span></a> fight off federal efforts to sell their land in order to give multinational <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/corporations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>corporations</span></a> access to its <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/mineral" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mineral</span></a> resources. But the Western Shoshone stand firm. Raymond Yowell, Chief of the Western Shoshone National Council, said, 'Western Shoshone title is still intact… We’ve never accepted their money and never will — our land, the earth mother is not for sale and we will protect her and continue our responsibilities as caretakers under the Creator’s law.'</p><p>The Land and Its People</p><p>"Yucca Mountain is located within the Western Shoshone Nation and has long been a place of powerful spiritual energy for the Shoshone and the Paiute. To the Western Shoshone it is <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SnakeMountain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SnakeMountain</span></a>, a place with rock rings that transmit prayers to the Great Spirit and messages back to the people. The late Shoshone spiritual leader Corbin Harney told a traditional story that Snake Mountain will one day be awakened and split open, spewing out poison. This prophecy may predict the potential disaster of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/volcanic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>volcanic</span></a> activity and nuclear waste leakage. Shoshone ancestors are buried in the mountain and the water in the area is sacred, as it is with many desert peoples.</p><p>"The 60 million acres of Western Shoshone territory in Nevada, Idaho, Utah and California, which includes Yucca Mountain, was never deeded to the U.S. government. According to the 1863 <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RubyValleyTreaty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RubyValleyTreaty</span></a> that the Shoshone signed with the government, most of the area now used by the U.S. military for <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearWeapons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearWeapons</span></a> testing and the proposed waste storage site was explicitly recognized as Shoshone land. However, the U.S. government now claims 80 to 90 percent of it, meaning that the Shoshone are unable to control what happens on their ancestral land. Legislators continue to try to persuade the Shoshone to accept financial compensation for this land, which most view as a way to extinguish aboriginal title and preclude future land claims, easing the way for renewed nuclear weapons testing and waste storage, as well as resource <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/extraction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>extraction</span></a>.</p><p>"In the late 1970s government scientists began to study Yucca Mountain as a possible repository for nuclear waste, and since 1987 it has been the only site considered for 77,000 metric tons of spent nuclear fuel and radioactive waste. While the Yucca Mountain Project has been debated, the amount of nuclear waste needing burial has already surpassed what the repository was designed to hold. In the meantime, nuclear waste continues to sit in steel-lined pools or casks near power plants throughout the country that produce 2,000 tons of high-level waste per year. The waste is lethal for 10,000 years and dangerous for 250,000 years."</p><p>[...]</p><p>"The Yucca Mountain Project calls for the highly radioactive nuclear waste to be encased in steel containers and buried deep in the mountain. Since the canisters will last for 1,000 years at most, the dryness of the mountain will have to guarantee against leakage and migration — an assumption that environmentalists and many scientists say is flawed and dangerous. Surface water percolating into the mountain will carry radioactive particles into the water table and render it toxic. This water table currently supplies water to local communities and farming regions that produce food products for the entire country.</p><p>"In 2005, Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman confirmed that internal department e-mails allude to the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/falsification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>falsification</span></a> of data on how quickly water flows through Yucca Mountain. This revelation caused a federal investigation, and condemnation from Congress triggered the Department of Energy to completely reorganize the project and lay off 500 employees. Robert Hager, attorney for the Western Shoshone, said that the Yucca site would have been disqualified years ago if the true nature of the subterranean water flow was known.</p><p>"With several local <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FaultLines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FaultLines</span></a> and a <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/volcano" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>volcano</span></a> nearby, earthquakes make it likely that the mountain will fracture the repository and send even more water to the waste. There are also grave concerns about the safety of transporting nuclear waste over long distances through several U.S. states, particularly in an era of terrorist threats. During the later Bush years, as environmental concerns mounted and citizens from other states grew more leery, the project began to look more and more unlikely." </p><p>Read more:<br><a href="https://sacredland.org/yucca-mountain-united-states/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">sacredland.org/yucca-mountain-</span><span class="invisible">united-states/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnvironmentalRacism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EnvironmentalRacism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Pauite" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Pauite</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PauiteShoshone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PauiteShoshone</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CulturalGenocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CulturalGenocide</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NativeAmericans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NativeAmericans</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/nuclear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nuclear</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/nuclearwaste" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nuclearwaste</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WaterIsLife</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RespectTheTreaties" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RespectTheTreaties</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoNukes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoNukes</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoDumping" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoDumping</span></a></p>
Peter Riley<p><a href="https://beyondnuclearinternational.org/2023/11/06/the-dann-sisters-blazed-a-trail/#more-12166" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">beyondnuclearinternational.org</span><span class="invisible">/2023/11/06/the-dann-sisters-blazed-a-trail/#more-12166</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FirstNations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FirstNations</span></a> Western <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Shoshone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Shoshone</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/YuccaMountain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>YuccaMountain</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BeyondNuclear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BeyondNuclear</span></a></p><p>2023 <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NuclearFreeFuture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearFreeFuture</span></a> Awards <a href="https://beyondnuclearinternational.org/2023/10/22/2023-nuclear-free-future-awards-event-and-winners-announced/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">beyondnuclearinternational.org</span><span class="invisible">/2023/10/22/2023-nuclear-free-future-awards-event-and-winners-announced/</span></a></p>
Paria sans portefeuille<p>The <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/BaajNwaavjoItahKukveni" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BaajNwaavjoItahKukveni</span></a> and the Legacy of <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/NuclearColonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearColonialism</span></a> across Mother Earth</p><p>"Guest: Ian Zabarte (Newe Sogobia [Western Shoshone] Nation), is a long-time <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/Indigenous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Indigenous</span></a> activist who worked tirelessly to stop the <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/YuccaMountain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>YuccaMountain</span></a> high-level <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/NuclearWaste" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearWaste</span></a> repository in Western Shoshone Treaty lands (also known as the state of Nevada)" </p><p><a href="https://soundcloud.com/burntswamp/the-baaj-nwaavjo-itah-kukveni-and-the-legacy-of-nuclear-colonialism-across-mother-earth" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">soundcloud.com/burntswamp/the-</span><span class="invisible">baaj-nwaavjo-itah-kukveni-and-the-legacy-of-nuclear-colonialism-across-mother-earth</span></a></p><p><a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/NativeAmericans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NativeAmericans</span></a> <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/FirstNations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FirstNations</span></a> <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/uranium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>uranium</span></a> <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/UraniumMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UraniumMining</span></a> <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/UraniumPoisoning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UraniumPoisoning</span></a> <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/NuclearIndustry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearIndustry</span></a> <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/GrandCanyon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GrandCanyon</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/AmericanIndianAirwaves" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AmericanIndianAirwaves</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>Hey <span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.energy/@frederick" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>frederick</span></a></span>, did you read this? I can't believe you're pro-<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/nuclear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nuclear</span></a> now. After all, you were there with me at the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Seabrook" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Seabrook</span></a> protest in 1977, and you wrote this in 2018: "When the nuclear industry demonstrates it can build safe and economic power stations and manage the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ToxicWaste" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ToxicWaste</span></a> they produce, there will be a role for nuclear energy. Until then, we should base our future energy policy on existing <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/renewable" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>renewable</span></a> options."</p><p>Do you have some inside information on how the nuclear industry has figured out what to do with the waste? I guess just dump it into the ocean, like <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TEPCO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TEPCO</span></a>? Or bury it in geologically unstable areas, preferably on <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NativeAmerican" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NativeAmerican</span></a> lands (like <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/YuccaMountain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>YuccaMountain</span></a>)? Please, enlighten us!</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoNukes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoNukes</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TEPCOLies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TEPCOLies</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnvironmentalRacism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EnvironmentalRacism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/UraniumMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UraniumMining</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WaterIsLife</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>NIRS: Stop Nuclear Waste Transport</p><p>"Commercial high level radioactive waste has been stored at more than 100 nuclear reactors across the country since the first commercial nuclear reactor began operating in Shippingport, Pennsylvania in 1957. This intensely radioactive waste is first cooled underwater in 40 foot deep water-cooled pools that are rapidly filling beyond capacity.</p><p>"[If a long-term nuclear waste disposal site like <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/YuccaMountain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>YuccaMountain</span></a> is approved], thousands of shipments of containers of the most concentrated commercial radioactive waste by way of roads, rails, and waterways would be triggered. These hazardous shipments would impact every local community through which they pass."</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Trains" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trains</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TrainDerailment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TrainDerailment</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Safety" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Safety</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoMoreNukes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoMoreNukes</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoNukes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoNukes</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WaterIsLife</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearWaste" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearWaste</span></a></p><p>Read more:<br><a href="https://www.nirs.org/campaigns/dont-waste-america/stop-nuclear-waste-transport/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nirs.org/campaigns/dont-waste-</span><span class="invisible">america/stop-nuclear-waste-transport/</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>Toxic train wreck in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Ohio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Ohio</span></a> hits close to home in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Nevada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Nevada</span></a></p><p>John L. Smith. February 26th, 2023</p><p>"In Nevada, those who have devoted decades to the fight against the Department of Energy’s proposed <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearWaste" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearWaste</span></a> repository at <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/YuccaMountain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>YuccaMountain</span></a> viewed the Ohio <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/derailment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>derailment</span></a> through a different lens. The recent <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/toxic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>toxic</span></a> event was the sort of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/accident" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>accident</span></a> they had feared might happen during the transportation of high-level radioactive material across the country had the dump project moved forward.</p><p>"'Groups across the country, the people who think about nuclear waste are really worked up about [the recent derailment],' longtime Yucca Mountain opponent Judy Treichel says. 'The email is just rocketing back and forth.'</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoNukes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoNukes</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WaterIsLife</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnvironmentalRacism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EnvironmentalRacism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Shoshone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Shoshone</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://thenevadaindependent.com/article/toxic-train-wreck-in-ohio-hits-close-to-home-in-nevada" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">thenevadaindependent.com/artic</span><span class="invisible">le/toxic-train-wreck-in-ohio-hits-close-to-home-in-nevada</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/YuccaMountain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>YuccaMountain</span></a>: Faster Water Flow Undermines Project Safety, UNR <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Geologist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Geologist</span></a> Says </p><p>By Trina Kleist, Published July 12, 2020 </p><p>"The scientists concluded the risk of a worst-case scenario — radiation released somehow into the air or getting into <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/groundwater" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>groundwater</span></a> — was on the order of a million-to-one. That's the figure in the licensing application now before the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission.</p><p>"Such an event likely would take thousands of years to occur, said licensed nuclear engineer Charlotta Sanders. She is an associate research professor at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and formerly an engineering specialist and group supervisor on the project.</p><p>"But this latest paper calls that early research on risk into question. The author, geologist Scott Tyler of the University of Nevada, Reno, said water movement models used to calculate those risks are out of date. Measurements taken since then show water is moving much faster than earlier estimates had calculated. The public deserves to feel confident the project would work as designed, he added.</p><p>"'Yucca Mountain could easily show some contamination in a very short period of time,' added Tyler, perhaps within 100 years.</p><p>"Tyler reviewed research by dozens of scientists published over the past 25 years. He found that many surprises have popped up regarding water movement within Yucca Mountain. His conclusions were published in January in the journal Geosciences.</p><p>"'There are so many loose threads,' Tyler said of research at the site. 'You pull any one and it stops the repository because there are enough uncertainties and questions.'"</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Shoshone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Shoshone</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnvironmentalRacism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EnvironmentalRacism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WaterIsLife</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoNukes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoNukes</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Nuclear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Nuclear</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearWaste" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearWaste</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NativeAmericans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NativeAmericans</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.kunr.org/energy-and-environment/2020-07-12/yucca-mountain-faster-water-flow-undermines-project-safety-unr-geologist-says" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">kunr.org/energy-and-environmen</span><span class="invisible">t/2020-07-12/yucca-mountain-faster-water-flow-undermines-project-safety-unr-geologist-says</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>Rosen Joins <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Nevada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Nevada</span></a> Delegation in Effort to Prevent <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Nuclear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Nuclear</span></a> Waste Storage at Yucca Mountain</p><p>February 14, 2023</p><p>The Nuclear Waste Informed Consent Act is based on recommendations from DOE’s 2012 Blue Ribbon Commission on America’s Nuclear Future and DOE’s 2017 consent-based siting report. Accordingly, this bill would require that the Secretary of Energy secure written consent from the following entities before moving forward with a nuclear waste repository:</p><p>- Governor of the host state;<br>- Affected units of local government;<br>- Each contiguous unit of local government primarily affected by the repository; and<br>- Affected Indian tribes. </p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/YuccaMountain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>YuccaMountain</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NativeAmericans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NativeAmericans</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WaterIsLife</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoNukes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoNukes</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearWaste" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearWaste</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.rosen.senate.gov/2023/02/14/rosen-joins-nevada-delegation-in-effort-to-prevent-nuclear-waste-storage-at-yucca-mountain/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">rosen.senate.gov/2023/02/14/ro</span><span class="invisible">sen-joins-nevada-delegation-in-effort-to-prevent-nuclear-waste-storage-at-yucca-mountain/</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>'It will poison everything.' <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NativeAmericans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NativeAmericans</span></a> protest <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/YuccaMountain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>YuccaMountain</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Nuclear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Nuclear</span></a> Waste site</p><p>by Ed Komenda, May 22, 2019</p><p>"“Those transportation routes go through any number of sensitive habitats where a <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/derailment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>derailment</span></a> or a truck accident could cause significant impacts on water or on wildlife that live along those transportation corridors,' Donnelly [Nevada state director for the Center for Biological Diversity] said. </p><p>"The office of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Nevada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Nevada</span></a> Attorney General Aaron Ford identified the complexity of waste transport as one of many reasons storing nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain does little to protect the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/environment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>environment</span></a> and people. Other concerns include national security (waste shipments as terrorist targets) and geology (Yucca's aquifer drains to the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AmargosaValley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AmargosaValley</span></a> – home to more than 1,400 people and several <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/endangered" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>endangered</span></a> species). [And is seismically unstable]</p><p>"'<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Contamination" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Contamination</span></a> from Yucca Mountain could very easily contaminate the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/aquifer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>aquifer</span></a>,' Donnelly said, 'and thus contaminate all sorts of springs that harbor some kind of endemic life.'" </p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoNukes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoNukes</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WaterIsLife</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnvironmentalRacism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EnvironmentalRacism</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.rgj.com/story/news/2019/05/22/yucca-mountain-nuclear-waste-nevada-test-site/3694806002/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">rgj.com/story/news/2019/05/22/</span><span class="invisible">yucca-mountain-nuclear-waste-nevada-test-site/3694806002/</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>Background: Environmental Justice Case Study: The <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/YuccaMountain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>YuccaMountain</span></a> High-Level <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Nuclear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Nuclear</span></a> Waste Repository and the Western <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Shoshone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Shoshone</span></a></p><p>"The U.S. government has set aside an area of the Western Shoshone Nation, Yucca Mountain, as a final repository for high level nuclear waste from the U.S. nuclear industry. At present, the Department of Energy (DOE) is conducting a scientific investigation of the site that will cost $63 billion and will allow for the repository to be opened by the year 2010. </p><p>"Although they are still investigating the area, the DOE is no longer looking for a site elsewhere. The tribe is extremely concerned about observed health and environmental effects on its members, but currently the federal government has not initiated or implemented any official health studies, remedies to the environmental pollution, programs for early detection of environmental disease, or disease surveillance programs.</p><p>"Authorities such as the Bureau of Land Management, Forest and Park Services, Fish and Wildlife, Atomic Energy Commission, Department of Defense, and Department of Transportation, now have control over 90% of Shoshone land. This is in direct violation of the 1863 Treaty of Ruby Valley, ratified by the U.S. Senate in 1866, and later upheld by President Grant in 1869, that recognizes Shoshone territorial <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/sovereignty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sovereignty</span></a>. "</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NativeAmericans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NativeAmericans</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RespectTheTreaties" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RespectTheTreaties</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoNukes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoNukes</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoDumping" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoDumping</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnvironmentalRacism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EnvironmentalRacism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WesternShoshone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WesternShoshone</span></a> </p><p><a href="http://websites.umich.edu/~snre492/kendziuk.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">http://</span><span class="ellipsis">websites.umich.edu/~snre492/ke</span><span class="invisible">ndziuk.html</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/YuccaMountain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>YuccaMountain</span></a></p><p>The U.S. <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/nuclear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nuclear</span></a> establishment in industry and government has, since 1987, focused on geologically unsuitable Western Shoshone Indian land in Nevada for opening the world’s first permanent burial dump for highly radioactive nuclear waste. Yucca’s rock, fractured by earthquake activity – not to mention nuclear weapons blasts at the nearby Nevada Test Site – would allow radioactivity to massively leak out into the underground drinking water supply over time. Only by undermining public health and safety protections and weakening scientific guidelines and environmental regulations, again and again, has the nuclear establishment managed to keep the proposed Yucca dump from being disqualified from any further consideration.</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnvironmentalRacism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EnvironmentalRacism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Shoshone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Shoshone</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CulturalGenocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CulturalGenocide</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NativeAmericans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NativeAmericans</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/nuclear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nuclear</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/nuclearwaste" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nuclearwaste</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WaterIsLife</span></a><br><a href="https://www.nirs.org/radioactive-waste/yucca/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nirs.org/radioactive-waste/yuc</span><span class="invisible">ca/</span></a></p>
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