WHATS WRONG WITH YUCCA MOUNTAIN?
• It’s a bad site. After 24 years of study, the Department of Energy (DOE) acknowledges the site will leak. It is riddled with earthquake faults and sits above a locally-used aquifer. • It does not consolidate nuclear waste into one location. Even if Yucca Mountain opens, existing sites will still contain waste because it has to cool several years before it can be shipped. And U.S. reactors will now produce more than 88,000 tons of waste and Yucca Mountain can handle only 77,000 tons of it. • It poses unnecessary transportation risks. There is no immediate need to move nuclear waste. Transporting it (estimated at tens of thousands of shipments through 44 states over 24 years) puts millions at risk and creates an inviting terrorist target on public roads and railways. TAKE ACTION!
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- WHATS WRONG WITH YUCCA MOUNTAIN?
