To: President Donald Trump, The United States House of Representatives, and The United States Senate
Stop A Mobile Chernobyl
Congress is considering legislation that would establish "consolidated interim storage" sites for high-level radioactive waste. This would initiate the unnecessary transport of tens of thousands of casks of lethal radioactive waste on our roads and railways for the sole benefit of the nuclear power industry, while endangering the health and safety of millions of Americans. As long as nuclear reactors generate this waste, "interim" waste sites would not decrease the number of places that store radioactive waste; rather, there would simply be more contaminated sites.
Radioactive waste should be stored in dry hardened, secure on-site facilities until a permanent, scientifically-defensible and publicly-acceptable waste solution is implemented. This waste should be moved only once: to a permanent site. Ending the generation of radioactive waste would be the most effective single step toward addressing our radioactive waste dilemma.
Please vote against any legislation that would establish consolidated "interim" storage sites for radioactive waste.
Radioactive waste should be stored in dry hardened, secure on-site facilities until a permanent, scientifically-defensible and publicly-acceptable waste solution is implemented. This waste should be moved only once: to a permanent site. Ending the generation of radioactive waste would be the most effective single step toward addressing our radioactive waste dilemma.
Please vote against any legislation that would establish consolidated "interim" storage sites for radioactive waste.
Why is this important?
Here’s the nuclear power industry’s plan to deal with the ever-growing problem of deadly radioactive waste piling up at nuclear reactors: get it off their sites and send tens of thousands of hot casks on America’s highways and railways to one or more “temporary” unprotected sites located anywhere but on their property.
Sound like a serious plan? Of course not.
But some in Congress like the idea and are pushing to include that plan as part of an overhaul of the nation’s radioactive waste laws.
Please sign the petition to tell Congress that “centralized interim storage” of radioactive waste—and the accompanying and completely unnecessary risk of a Mobile Chernobyl—is unacceptable. We need a permanent solution, not Fukushima Freeways.
Nothing New
The nuclear industry’s plan is nothing new. In fact, it’s the same plan they came up with 20 years ago, when Nuclear Information and Resource Service (NIRS) first coined the term “Mobile Chernobyl.” The public rose in opposition, and President Clinton vetoed an “interim” storage bill passed by Congress. The Senate upheld his veto.
Now we have to show that opposition again.
Want more info? Go to NIRS website: www.nirs.org
Sound like a serious plan? Of course not.
But some in Congress like the idea and are pushing to include that plan as part of an overhaul of the nation’s radioactive waste laws.
Please sign the petition to tell Congress that “centralized interim storage” of radioactive waste—and the accompanying and completely unnecessary risk of a Mobile Chernobyl—is unacceptable. We need a permanent solution, not Fukushima Freeways.
Nothing New
The nuclear industry’s plan is nothing new. In fact, it’s the same plan they came up with 20 years ago, when Nuclear Information and Resource Service (NIRS) first coined the term “Mobile Chernobyl.” The public rose in opposition, and President Clinton vetoed an “interim” storage bill passed by Congress. The Senate upheld his veto.
Now we have to show that opposition again.
Want more info? Go to NIRS website: www.nirs.org