Radioactive Waste

On behalf of the millions of members our 437 organizations represent (31 Native American, 26 national, 366 regional/state/local, and 15 international organizations), we urge you not to approve the license application by Private Fuel Storage, LLC (PFS) to open an "interim storage site" for commercial irradiated nuclear fuel at the Skull Valley Goshute Indian Reservation in Utah. This letter was delivered to the NRC Commissioners on But on September 9, 2005, by a split 4 to 1 decision, the NRC Commissioners voted to issue PFS a construction and operating license.

NIRS and Public Citizen have compiled two timelines — one on the targeting of Native American tribes in general, and the other on the targeting of the Skull Valley Goshutes of Utah in particular, for high-level radioactive waste dumps — plus a backgrounder on why the Private Fuel Storage dump is all of a sudden on the fast track. The History of Targeting Native American Communities with High-Level Atomic Waste Dumps Skull Valley Goshutes/PFS Timeline Why is the Nuclear Industry Pushing for Private Fuel Storage (PFS)?