Yucca Mountain

NIRS statement at Department of Energy SEIS hearings on proposed Yucca Mountain waste site; in Washington DC.

DOE proposes doubling Yucca Mountain Capacity. DOE Press Release, NEPA Documents for Public Comment

NIRS expresses its deepest sympathy and condolences at the passing of Corbin Harney, Western Shoshone Indian spiritual leader, and leader of the resistance to nuclear weapons testing and radioactive waste dumping on Western Shoshone lands in Nevada. Link to public statement by Corbin’s immediate family. Photos of Western Shoshone spiritual leader Corbin Harney leading sacred ceremonies during the 2000 Nuclear-Free Great Lakes Action Camp

The State of Nevada’s comments on the U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s proposed licensing rule for a Yucca Mountain high-level radioactive waste repository.

NIRS Comments on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Draft Revisions to 40 CFR Part 197, “Public Health and Environmental Radiation Protection Standards for Yucca Mountain, Nevada.

NIRS petition to EPA re: revised Yucca Mountain radiation release regulations.

NIRS oral testimony before the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency public hearing in Washington, D.C. re: EPA’s Draft Revisions to 40 CFR Part 197, “Public Health and Environmental Radiation Protection Standards for Yucca Mountain, Nevada.”

Environmental group letter opposing funding for Yucca Mountain.