*[Enwl-eng] Tell Your US Representative NOW-No to Decades of Massive Nuclear Waste Shipments

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                        Tell Your House Rep NOW

                        NO Nuclear Waste at Yucca Mountain

                        NO Radioactive Roads, Rails, and Waterways
                  Dear Friend,


                  We must act now to stop Congress from funding a dangerous 
nuclear waste project. The US House of Representatives Energy and Water 
Appropriations Bill could come to the floor for a full house vote the week 
of June 10, 2019.

                  Tell your House Rep: NO YUCCA MOUNTAIN FUNDING Amendment 
to the Appropriations Bill!

                  There could be a Yucca Mountain amendment to fund 
restarting the licensing of Yucca Mountain as a nuclear waste repository. 
Licensing of this failed project was rightly cancelled in 2010. The full 
Appropriations Committee voted NO against a Yucca funding amendment, but it 
could be brought up again on the House floor.

                  Let your US Representative know by email or phone--vote NO 
on Yucca Amendment(s) to the House Energy and Water Appropriations bill.

                  A vote to fund Yucca Mountain hurts all of us. It is a 
vote to send many thousands of high-level radioactive waste shipments to an 
unsuitable dump site—over 40-50 years of transports, traveling regularly 
through our towns, cities, farms, waterways, putting everyone along those 
routes at radioactive risk. Nuclear waste transport is dangerous—NO 
insurance covers the damages (check your policy for nuclear exclusions)!

                  Each of the thousands of containers that would move daily 
or weekly on our roads, rails, rivers, and waterways has more radioactive 
cesium than released from the Hiroshima bomb and more plutonium than the 
Nagasaki bomb. There will be accidents. There could be deliberate foul play.

                  Just say NO to Yucca Mountain: DON'T fund it, DON'T send 
nuclear waste there.

                  Reviving the licensing of the proposed Yucca Mountain 
site, in the high-risk volcanic and earthquake-prone area of Western 
Shoshone land in Nevada, throws good money after bad, violates a treaty, 
environmental justice and consent principles, and threatens the water 
supply. It wastes more time pretending Yucca can work, when we know Yucca 
will fail to isolate the waste.

                  Over 200 legal objections from state and Native American 
interveners have been filed against Yucca which will take many years to 
address, if the contested licensing process ever resumes.

                  Ask Your Representative to VOTE NO on funding for the 
cancelled Yucca Mountain Project licensing process! No Yucca funding now, or 
ever.


                  Thanks for all you do!

                  Diane D'Arrigo

                  Radioactive Waste Project Director

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From: NIRS - Radioactive Waste Project Director
Sent: Saturday, June 08, 2019 4:33 PM
Subject: Tell Your US Representative NOW-No to Decades of Massive Nuclear 
Waste Shipments

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