Today I received this email from the Nuclear Information and Resource Service.
ACT NOW! COMMENTS DUE OCTOBER 31, 2011
TELL THE BRC TO PROTECT PEOPLE, NOT THE NUCLEAR INDUSTRY
October 27, 2011
Dear Friends,
The Blue Ribbon Commission on America's Nuclear Future (BRC) was formed by President Obama and Energy Secretary Steven Chu in the wake of the administration's sensible decision to end the proposed Yucca Mountain, Nevada radioactive waste project.
The BRC was not charged with finding a new site for the nation's high-level radioactive waste; rather, it was charged with examining the potential options for coping with the massive waste problem now on our hands.
Unfortunately, the BRC was stacked with nuclear industry interests and its final draft report, which relies heavily on the long-discredited notion of establishing new "interim" storage sites for radioactive waste, seems much more interested in assuring continued generation of radioactive waste than addressing its fundamental problems. Establishment of new "interim" storage sites, with no permanent solution for radioactive waste storage in site, would simply result in mass waste transportation campaigns that would needlessly endanger millions of Americans--a concept that in the 1990s correctly led to the coining of the phrase "Mobile Chernobyl." In addition, the BRC draft report does not explicitly reject the dangerous and dirty practice of reprocessing nuclear waste, as it should.
The Blue Ribbon Commission on America's Nuclear Future (BRC) was formed by President Obama and Energy Secretary Steven Chu in the wake of the administration's sensible decision to end the proposed Yucca Mountain, Nevada radioactive waste project.
The BRC was not charged with finding a new site for the nation's high-level radioactive waste; rather, it was charged with examining the potential options for coping with the massive waste problem now on our hands.
Unfortunately, the BRC was stacked with nuclear industry interests and its final draft report, which relies heavily on the long-discredited notion of establishing new "interim" storage sites for radioactive waste, seems much more interested in assuring continued generation of radioactive waste than addressing its fundamental problems. Establishment of new "interim" storage sites, with no permanent solution for radioactive waste storage in site, would simply result in mass waste transportation campaigns that would needlessly endanger millions of Americans--a concept that in the 1990s correctly led to the coining of the phrase "Mobile Chernobyl." In addition, the BRC draft report does not explicitly reject the dangerous and dirty practice of reprocessing nuclear waste, as it should.
Please tell the BRC to protect people and our planet, not the nuclear industry. Submit your comments here.
Public comments on the BRC's final draft report are due by October 31, 2011. You can read the full draft report here.
Public comments on the BRC's final draft report are due by October 31, 2011. You can read the full draft report here.
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The time to act is now, let your voices be heard. Nuclear waste is not a joke, it is serious business, we can no longer ignore the negative impact this has, don't let the big nuclear power industry continue to play with a stacked deck. All you need to do is submit your comments, no tent required. What you do today WILL make a difference tomorrow.
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