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For Immediate Release...Oscar-Nominated Actor James Cromwell Joins Fight Against Dangerous Nuclear Waste Programs
Nuclear Nightmare...
Coming to Your Backyard!
Salt Lake City is only 45 miles downwind from the proposed Skull Valley “temporary?high-level nuclear waste storage facility. | There is far more to the nuclear waste issue than simply deciding to move extremely toxic high-level nuclear waste from densely populated Eastern states and California to a “temporary? storage facility at Skull Valley, Utah. Department of Energy ’s previous commitment to maximize use of rail transport is not part of the current proposal. A recent report finds that the current capabilities of reactor sites to transport are heavily dependent upon trucks.
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Therefore it is highly probable that more than 4,000 trucks will haul the 40,000 metric tons of high-level nuclear waste to Utah’s Skull Valley Reservation. This is not just Utah’s problem. People along the nation’s highways will be coming face to face with this highly toxic radioactive waste as it travels through their communities. Many uncertainties surrounding the transportation of high-level nuclear waste makes it extremely difficult to assess potential impacts and contingency plans in case of an accident. The distances over which the high-level nuclear waste must travel are much greater, since in the past, it was shipped mainly between reactor sites. Each shipment increases the risk of severe accidents in any of the cities and towns along the proposed routes shown. (See map)
As the current trend continues chances are that more than 70 percent of the Nation’s nuclear waste stockpile will be transported through Utah.
Utah and those states along the transportation corridors will be exposed to extremely intense negative publicity to the detriment of any attempt to attract new residents, tourists, and conventions -- as well as, new businesses and industries. Putting thousands of tons of high-level nuclear waste on the nation’s highways and railroads, in close contact with individuals and communities, without having thoroughly thought out the implications of such a decision will create a sustained intense negative response by the American public.
Is the State of Utah or the nation prepared for the risks and ramifications associated with the increased transportation of deadly high-level nuclear waste shipments?
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