Nuclear Waste On Indian Reservations

Riddled by bullets a utah state sign stands along the highway leading to the goshute indian tribe reservation where some want to store waste from nuclear power plants.

Nuclear power plant beirut lebanon which xiaomi phone has the best camera. Society and often have few if any options for generating income. In the quest to dispose of nuclear waste the government. Both the federal government and the commercial nuclear power industry have targeted native american reservations for such dumps for many years.

The question of the storage of nuclear waste on the reservation is one that divided the tribe for many years. In 1987 the united states congress created the office of nuclear waste negotiator in order to facilitate land deals with states counties and native american tribes. Nuclear waste storage debate.

In february 2009 the us. Significantly few if any of the current waste sites are maintained in a manner con. Nuclear waste negotiator an agency established by congress to solicit interest by states and indian reservations to open their doors to nuclear waste because of.

Native american advocates argue that siting such waste on or near reservations is an environmental justice problem given that twice as many native families live below the poverty line than other sectors of us. The skull valley band of goshute indians reservation in utah had been sited as the new neighbors to a large temporary nuclear waste dump. Private fuel storage pfs a corporation that represents multiple other nuclear companies wants to store 40000 tons of commercial high level radioactive waste at this site in skull valley.

Department of energy doe announced intentions to scale back efforts to make yucca mountain the nations sole repository of radioactive nuclear waste and to look into. In the words of the grace thorpe an activist against the dumping of nuclear waste on native reservations and a member of the sac and fox tribe the real irony is that after years of trying to destroy it the united states is promoting indian national sovereignty just so they can dump their waste on native land. Riddled by bullets a utah state sign stands along the highway leading to the goshute indian tribe reservation where some want to store waste from nuclear power plants.

Congress created the office of the nuclear waste negotiator in an effort to open a federal monitored retrievable storage site for high level nuclear waste. Department of energy to study the possibility of hosting nuclear waste sites4 there are currently more than 650 sites where solid waste is stored on indian lands5 and proposals to construct hazardous waste facilities on those reservations are under way.