NIRS Action Alert- Comments on Yucca Mountain & High Level Radioactive
Waste due JanTHANK YOU, Donald !!!

----- Original Message ----- From: Donald Keesing To: lasurg@comcast.net
Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2008 11:25 AM Subject: NIRS Action
Alert- Comments on Yucca Mountain & High Level Radioactive Waste
due Jan. 10

NIRS Action Alert- Comments on Yucca Mountain & High Level Radioactive
Waste due Jan. 10

Friends -- Below is a Yucca Dump Action Alert from our friends at
Western Shoshone Defense Project -- Please Act!

DOE is moving ahead to make the sacred Shoshone Yucca Mountain that
is also leaky and geologically unstable the nation's high-level
nuclear waste dump (the vast majority of the waste that would go
there is from making electric power east of the Mississippi River).
This is categorically wrong since both the Western Shone Nation and
the State of Nevada oppose this dump. In addition all evidence
points to an active magma pocket below the site! Your comments are
needed now on a draft supplemental EIS designed to expedite the
dump license! THE DEADLINE IS JANUARY 10 -- instructions are given
in the WSDP Alert below.

While there are other schemes afoot (The Bush Global Nuclear Energy
Partnership -- featuring reprocessing) the fact that the nuclear
industry is staging a "come back" is driving DOE (a nuclear energy
promoter) to do ANYTHING -- including multiple "baits and switches"
-- to get irradiated fuel (high-level radioactive waste) OFF nuclear
power reactor sites and into the tax-payer's pocket (when DOE takes
the waste, it transfers off the balance sheet of the corporation
and on to the taxpayer's back). We have been fighting Yucca Mountain
for a long time -- please don't stop now!

An additional set of "talking points" that came via our friends at
Nevada Nuclear Waste Task Force are attached. If you live in a
state with nuclear power reactors -- or near the nuclear waste
transport routes please DO look at the attached talking points
(see:http://www.state.nv.us/nucwaste/maps2002/roadrail/index.htm
--scroll down the page to see links to state maps). DOE is now
planning to use a standardized waste container -- called a TAD --
(Transport and Disposal).

These containers are enormous -- and while they will reduce the
number of shipments of highly radioactive waste, the reactor-site
loading of these containers would be challenging, and accident
consequences would go up. Rail would likely be used more -- and
while rail may be preferred for a number of reasons -- rail bed
throughout the USA has been deteriorating to an alarmingly sad
state. Also: regulations allow a shipment to sit in a rail yard for
extended periods (up to 2 years) so security in urban transport
hubs may be more of an issue. (If you did not get the attachment,
send an email to nirs@main.nc.us or nirsnet@nirs.org and we will
send them again.)

If you want the whole 9 yards the DOE document is DOE/EIS-0250F-S1D
and is posted at:
http://www.eh.doe.gov/nepa/docs/deis/eis0250F-S1D/index.html NIRS
has a large body of basic information about high-level radioactive
waste posted at: http://www.nirs.org/radwaste/radwaste.htm See link
at left called Mobile Chernobyl to learn more about the problems
of transporting high-level waste and the Yucca Mountain dump-site
site itself.

We encourage you to go on record -- even short comments will
demonstrate that people DO still oppose Yucca Mountain and are
working to STOP MOBILE CHERNOBYL!

-- Mary Olson NIRS Southeast Regional Coordinator

Please forward widely!

URGENT ACTION ALERT!! DEADLINE APPROACHING!

YUCCA MOUNTAIN, SACRED TO THE SHOSHONE & MAJOR FAULT ZONE, IN
IMMINENT DANGER!

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY MOVES PLANS FORWARD TO TURN YUCCA MOUNTAIN
INTO NUCLEAR WASTE REPOSITORY.

PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD DEADLINE JANUARY 10, 2008.

Public hearings have not been well attended, statements mostly in
favor of the plan to put all of the nuclear waste in the country
in this one sacred place.

Activists were told that if we do not go on record with a statement,
we will have no legal recourse later on. Local papers & media spin
have recently stated that opposition to the nuke dump had dropped
off since the passing of Corbin Harney. The nuclear reps are confident
to the point of acting like it's a done deal. LETS PROVE THEM
WRONG! MAKE YOUR COMMENT NOW & TAKE ACTION!!

Yucca Mountain is sacred to the Shoshone as an herb gathering site,
for rituals, and as a part of their stories. Yucca Mountain is known
in Shoshone language as Snake Mountain. Indeed it looks like a
snake. It is said that the snake was headed north when it froze
where it is. Further more it is said that it will move again and
"flip around". Geologists say that there are thirteen different
fault lines running through it.

Citizens can make an oral statement at the scheduled public hearings
or fill out a form and mail it in to EIS Office U.S. Department of
Energy Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Mgmt, 1551 Hillshire
dr. Las Vegas, NV, 89195-7308 or by e-mail at EIS_Office@ymp.gov.

HERE ARE TALKING POINTS: http://www.h-o-m-e.org/Yucca/index.htm

Western Shoshone Defense Project

So-Ho-Bi (South Fork) office:

775-744-2565 (fax and phone)

Main office:

P.O. Box 211308 Crescent Valley, NV 89821 Newe Sogobi 775-468-0230
775-468-0237 (fax)

"The eyes of the elders are on us. The fate of the unborn is rolling
toward the cliff, the voice of Corbin Harney is ringing in my ears,
"It's on your shoulders now...". Info from Bear Dyken.
mdyken@goldrush.com.

YUCCA MOUNTAIN FACT SHEET, TALKING POINTS, & MORE INFO: Healing
Ourselves & Mother Earth http://www.h-o-m-e.org/

The DOE released two Draft Supplemental Environmen-tal Impact
Statements related to repository changes and rail transportation
of high-level waste in Nevada.

Inyo County CA- Excellent Draft Impacts Assessment Report Comments
due by 1/18/08