*[Enwl-eng] Tell US Senators: No False Solutions for Nuclear Waste--NO to Yucca, CIS and hot cargos

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                  Dear Friend,


                  Bad nuclear bills could be introduced soon in the US Senate--to push dangerous nuclear waste dumps that cannot isolate the waste and that will put us all at risk for decades, from radioactive transport. These false solutions only make the nuclear waste problems worse. 



                  Take Action now.





                  Without bringing us any closer to isolating nuclear waste permanently, both Yucca and Consolidated “Interim” Storage sites, expected to be in the upcoming bills, would trigger decades of potentially deadly radioactive waste transport through nearly 90% of Congressional districts including cities, farmland and waterways.






                  Tell your Senators:





                  NO nuclear transport back and forth across the country to inadequate or "interim" sites! 




                  NO Yucca Mountain funding--take it off the table!*





                  NO funding or authorization for Consolidated “Interim” Storage (CIS or MRS) Nuke Dumps.




                  Consolidated "Interim" Storage sites would be supposedly temporary, but are very likely to become permanent. These sites are not designed for long term isolation, threaten major water sources, nearby communities, and local economies as well as residents and travelers along transport routes across the country.


                  *NO funding to restart licensing of the proposed and previously-cancelled Yucca Mountain site, near volcanoes, seismic fault lines and precious water, on sacred Native American land whose indigenous rights and treaty rights would be violated. The State of Nevada remains steadfastly opposed in order to protect Nevada’s water rights and other rights that the Yucca Mountain project would violate.




                  Be sure your US Senators know of your opposition to Yucca Mountain and Consolidated “Interim” Storage Dumps and urge them to support Hardened On-Site Storage HOSS in monitored, inspectable storage systems, hardened against attacks or natural disasters.




                  At the end of the March 27, 2019 Appropriations Hearing on Department of Energy Appropriations, Senator Alexander, R, TN, stated that the Senate committee and subcommittee leaders in committees with jurisdiction over nuclear waste (Senators Feinstein D-CA, Alexander R-TN, Murkowski  R-AK, and Manchin D-WV) would meet with DOE Secretary Perry in the next two weeks to develop legislation to resolve the stalemate over nuclear waste and Yucca Mountain, to cancel it or decide to proceed with it. 





                  Let your Senators know NOW how you feel about huge amounts of high level radioactive waste being shipped throughout the country for decades to “temporary” sites such as in New Mexico and Texas and to the unsuitable, inadequate Yucca Mountain site that will not isolate nuclear waste permanently or even long term.


                  Thanks for all you do!

                  Diane D'Arrigo
                  Nuclear Information and Resource Service
                  Radioactive Waste Project Director


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Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2019 4:22 AM
Subject: Tell US Senators: No False Solutions for Nuclear Waste--NO to Yucca, CIS and hot cargos

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