After decades of failed policy, there exists no environmentally safe, just, and equitable solution to the storage of high level radioactive waste.
The Nuclear Fuel Chain
encompasses the various activities associated with the production of electricity from nuclear reactors. All steps in the chain generate radioactive waste. #1 Mining and Milling Uranium mining scars the landscape and devastates the environment. It is commonly done on indigenous and tribal peoples’ lands, destroying their communities. The byproduct of uranium mining is dangerous dirt…
Guiding Principles for Humane and Equitable Nuclear Waste Policy
1. Stop Making Nuclear Waste Nuclear Energy has created a vast Nuclear Waste Legacy which has contaminated and continues to contaminate our environment, threatening public health now and for many generations into the future. After more than 70 years, the nuclear industry and the government still have not developed a…
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Mothers for Peace Advocates for Hardened On-Site Storage of High Level Radioactive Waste
High level radioactive waste must be stored and isolated from the environment for a million years. Such a storage facility does not currently exist. Mothers for Peace asserts that keeping this waste on-site is the least risky option. The waste should be transported only once – from the reactor sites to an environmentally just and…
Mothers for Peace Opposes Yucca Mountain as a Permanent Site for Storing High Level Radioactive Waste
Yucca Mountain is strongly opposed by the State of Nevada: Yucca Mountain is a singularly bad site to house the nation’s high-level nuclear waste and spent nuclear fuel. “The Fight Against Yucca Mountain” The Yucca Mountain site should be disqualified for the following reasons: Violates Environmental Justice Mothers for Peace supports the sovereign Western Shoshone Nation…
Mothers for Peace is Opposed to Consolidated Interim Storage (CIS)
Keeping radioactive waste on-site is the least risky option. The waste should be transported only once – from the reactor sites to an environmentally just and scientifically sound site for permanent isolation. Over 80,000 metric tons of radioactive waste have piled up at nuclear power plants across the United States, and there is still no responsible solution…
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