Get your local government to pass a resolution opposing nuclear waste transportation through your community!
WHEREAS, according to documentation provided by the U.S. Department of Energy which indicates that high-level radioactive waste may be transported through [this jurisdiction] as early as 2010 should the national repository be opened at Yucca Mountain, Nevada;
and WHEREAS, high-level nuclear waste shipments could pass through this jurisdiction as early as 2007 should the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission approve a private, nuclear industry initiated “interim storage site” for high-level atomic waste on the Skull Valley Goshutes Indian Reservation in Utah;
and WHEREAS federal studies have shown that Yucca Mountain, Nevada and Skull Valley, Utah are not suitable geologic locations for high-level nuclear waste storage or burial due to earthquake activity, water infiltration, environmental justice, and other scientific and societal reasons;
and WHEREAS, [this jurisdiction] does not have adequately trained emergency response personnel or equipment to cope with a radiological disaster that could occur as a result of high-level radioactive waste transportation through [this jurisdiction];
and WHEREAS, the federal government, under the Yucca Mountain Project, would limit funding to [this jurisdiction] for training of emergency response personnel and for purchase of necessary equipment to cope with a radiological emergency, and under the Private Fuel Storage plan no such funding whatsoever is required;
and WHEREAS, property values are likely to fall, attraction of new business is likely to decrease, and improvement of our community [or communities] may become difficult if not impossible should high-level radioactive waste be transported through [this jurisdiction];
and WHEREAS, nuclear reactors across the nation will continue to generate and store high-level nuclear waste on-site for decades into the future, and the Yucca Mountain transportation program would take 25 to 40 years to complete, providing no near-term relief from accident or terrorist risks at reactor sites nationwide;
and WHEREAS, each shipment of high-level nuclear waste through urban population centers and agricultural areas would be at risk of terrorist attack or severe accident;
and WHEREAS, we generally oppose radioactive waste transportation through [this jurisdiction];
so BE IT RESOLVED, that [this jurisdiction] is on record as opposing any and all radioactive waste transportation near or through [this jurisdiction] bound for Yucca Mountain, Nevada or Skull Valley, Utah;
and BE IT RESOLVED, that [this jurisdiction] supports the re-examination of our nation’s radioactive waste policy;
and BE IT RESOLVED, that [this jurisdiction] will carry this resolution to all of our elected local, state, and federal officials, and to the President of the United States.