Sandy Mush NC - NO! to nuclear waste dump!

Now that Yucca Mountain is considered unsafe for the nation's high-level nuclear waste, the "Blue Ribbon Commission on America's Nuclear Future" is considering, among other granite sites, the pristine farmland of the mountains of North Carolina, where pure water and safe food are produced in one of the world's most beautiful places. Please email BRC@nuclear.energy.gov and insist that they not choose Sandy Mush as the substitute for Yucca Mountain, and for that matter that they not transport nuclear waste across the nation's highways, mountains, rivers, creeks and streams, but instead keep it where it has been produced until a truly safe and permanent solution has been found. The money would be much better spent ensuring the onsite security of the radioactive waste produced by nuclear power plants (including weapons-grade plutonium and uranium). Transportation through the still-unpolluted mountains is a criminal risk. See the comments made at the Asheville, NC SE Energy and Environment Expo (8/2010) at http://www.youtube.com/user/nucnews#p/u/4/yrp_q-c39Bk

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