The #BaajNwaavjoItahKukveni and the Legacy of #NuclearColonialism across Mother Earth

"Guest: Ian Zabarte (Newe Sogobia [Western Shoshone] Nation), is a long-time #Indigenous activist who worked tirelessly to stop the #YuccaMountain high-level #NuclearWaste repository in Western Shoshone Treaty lands (also known as the state of Nevada)"

https://soundcloud.com/burntswamp/the-baaj-nwaavjo-itah-kukveni-and-the-legacy-of-nuclear-colonialism-across-mother-earth

#NativeAmericans #FirstNations #uranium #UraniumMining #UraniumPoisoning #NuclearIndustry #GrandCanyon

#AmericanIndianAirwaves

NIRS: Stop Nuclear Waste Transport

"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.

"[If a long-term nuclear waste disposal site like #YuccaMountain 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."

#Trains #TrainDerailment #Safety #NoMoreNukes #NoNukes #WaterIsLife #NuclearWaste

Read more:
https://www.nirs.org/campaigns/dont-waste-america/stop-nuclear-waste-transport/

Toxic train wreck in #Ohio hits close to home in #Nevada

John L. Smith. February 26th, 2023

"In Nevada, those who have devoted decades to the fight against the Department of Energy’s proposed #NuclearWaste repository at #YuccaMountain viewed the Ohio #derailment through a different lens. The recent #toxic event was the sort of #accident they had feared might happen during the transportation of high-level radioactive material across the country had the dump project moved forward.

"'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.'

#NoNukes #WaterIsLife #EnvironmentalRacism #Shoshone

https://thenevadaindependent.com/article/toxic-train-wreck-in-ohio-hits-close-to-home-in-nevada

The water contains "radioactive chlorine-36, a chemical leftover of nuclear weapons the United States government had exploded in tests nearby starting in the 1950s." That could EAT through the steel containers!
#NoNukes #Nuclear #YuccaMountain

#YuccaMountain: Faster Water Flow Undermines Project Safety, UNR #Geologist Says

By Trina Kleist, Published July 12, 2020

"The scientists concluded the risk of a worst-case scenario — radiation released somehow into the air or getting into #groundwater — 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.

"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.

"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.

"'Yucca Mountain could easily show some contamination in a very short period of time,' added Tyler, perhaps within 100 years.

"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.

"'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.'"

#Shoshone #EnvironmentalRacism #WaterIsLife #NoNukes #Nuclear #NuclearWaste #NativeAmericans

https://www.kunr.org/energy-and-environment/2020-07-12/yucca-mountain-faster-water-flow-undermines-project-safety-unr-geologist-says

Rosen Joins #Nevada Delegation in Effort to Prevent #Nuclear Waste Storage at Yucca Mountain

February 14, 2023

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:

- Governor of the host state;
- Affected units of local government;
- Each contiguous unit of local government primarily affected by the repository; and
- Affected Indian tribes.

#YuccaMountain #NativeAmericans #WaterIsLife #NoNukes #NuclearWaste

https://www.rosen.senate.gov/2023/02/14/rosen-joins-nevada-delegation-in-effort-to-prevent-nuclear-waste-storage-at-yucca-mountain/

'It will poison everything.' #NativeAmericans protest #YuccaMountain #Nuclear Waste site

by Ed Komenda, May 22, 2019

"“Those transportation routes go through any number of sensitive habitats where a derailment 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.

"The office of #Nevada 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 environment and people. Other concerns include national security (waste shipments as terrorist targets) and geology (Yucca's aquifer drains to the #AmargosaValley – home to more than 1,400 people and several #endangered species). [And is seismically unstable]

"'#Contamination from Yucca Mountain could very easily contaminate the #aquifer,' Donnelly said, 'and thus contaminate all sorts of springs that harbor some kind of endemic life.'"

#NoNukes #WaterIsLife #EnvironmentalRacism

https://www.rgj.com/story/news/2019/05/22/yucca-mountain-nuclear-waste-nevada-test-site/3694806002/

Background: Environmental Justice Case Study: The #YuccaMountain High-Level #Nuclear Waste Repository and the Western #Shoshone

"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.

"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.

"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 #sovereignty. "

#NativeAmericans #RespectTheTreaties #NoNukes #NoDumping #EnvironmentalRacism

http://websites.umich.edu/~snre492/kendziuk.html

#YuccaMountain

The U.S. #nuclear 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.

#EnvironmentalRacism #Shoshone #CulturalGenocide #NativeAmericans #nuclear #nuclearwaste
https://www.nirs.org/radioactive-waste/yucca/

> [#Finland's] #Onkalo is the first in the world – after #YuccaMountain failed technologically as well as politically in the #USA – and the only project to create a permanent storage for waste from nuclear power plants... For the next hundred years the multiple tunnels and chambers of Onkalo, which stretch to a depth of fifteen hundred feet [500 metres], will house all of Finland’s nuclear waste, until it is filled and sealed with cement in 2120.
https://ratical.org/radiation/IntoEternity/OnkaloTUCradio.html
#NuclearWaste

This tweet about the White House Christmas decorations is the funniest damn thing I've seen this month. But it's a deep cut. Google the text if you don't already know it. #whitehouse #xmas #yuccamountain

https://mobile.twitter.com/unormal/status/935614731561381888