Environmental Justice and Nuclear Waste:
The Road from Vermont Yankee to Texas
When: Friday, May 6
Where: Brattleboro Coop Comunity Room, 7 Canal Street
What: Forum on high-level nuclear waste (HLNW), federal waste policy and environmental racism of the nuclear waste industry.
Speakers: Rose Gardner, an Andrews Co., Texas resident impacted by both a Texas low-level waste dump and a proposed Centralized Interim Storage site for HLNW;
Kevin Kamps with Beyond Nuclear, will address the vulnerabilities of on-site storage of HLNW and federal policy;
Deb Katz with Citizens Awareness Network will address the issues of NorthStar (the corporation decommissioning VT Yankee), decommissioning, and hardened onsite storage at nuclear reactors.
Do you know where our Vermont Yankee nuclear waste goes? Although the nuclear industry and federal government committed to create a solution for high-level nuclear waste disposal, no acceptable solution exists. The sites targeted for “disposal”, like Andrews County, Texas (interim storage site) and Yucca Mountain (permanent storage site), are routinely low-income, rural, people of color and Native American communities. It is essential that reactor and waste communities work together to create effective strategies and actions to defeat industry initiatives to target vulnerable communities and provide protections for reactor communities forced to be guardians of the world’s most toxic and long-lasting waste.
Organized by Citizens Awareness Network, the Safe and Green Campaign and the VT Yankee Decommissioning Alliance.
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