What weighs thirty tons, has as much radiation as 200 Hiroshima bombs, and is projected to pass within a half mile of your home? That would be a canister of high level radioactive waste, traveling from one of the 109 aging nuclear power plants in this country to Yucca Mountain, Nevada, the proposed "final resting place" for America's most deadly garbage.
The Department of Energy (DOE) released its draft Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for a proposed Nuclear Waste Repository at Yucca Mountain in August, 1999. It is to this mountain, at the heart of the Western Shoshone Nation, a place of deep spiritual significance to Shoshone and Pauite peoples, that the federal government hopes to send 98% of the burden of radioactivity generated during the entire Nuclear Age.
