News

• Reactor Sales Are Said to Endanger Accident Payments - August 6, 2002

• Nuclear Waste Makes Haste - The Hazardous Roads to Yucca Mountain - July 31, 2002

• How your Senators voted - July 9, 2002

• Senate Vote Does not Mean End to Yucca Mountain Fight; More Congressional Action, Legal Suits, Protests and Blockades Will Follow - July 9, 2002

• In Yucca Mountain Approval, Senators Bow to Nuclear Industry; Fight Will Continue - July 9, 2002

• Digging our Nuclear Grave - from the Hartford Courier

• Extension of Comment Period for Yucca Mountain - June 27, 2002

• Democrats, Republicans Clash Over Yucca Mountain - June 26, 2002

• Consolidating Nuclear Waste Won't End Spent Fuel Problem, Group Warns - June 24, 2002

• Go Slow on Yucca Mountain - June 23, 2002

• AFL-CIO Announces Opposition to Yucca Project - June 20, 2002

• Daschle Rejects Republican Nuke Waste Proposal - June 20, 2002

• NRC, Nuclear Industry Admit Yucca Mountain Not Necessary - June 19, 2002

• How Secure is a Nuclear Waste Truck? - June 19, 2002

• Mayors Oppose Dump in Nevada - June 15, 2002

• No damage, injuries in desert earthquake near Yucca Mountain, Nevada - June 14, 2002

• B-52's Band Members Visit Washington to Urge Senators to Reject Yucca Mountain Nuclear Dump - June 13, 2002

• Mock High-Level Radioactive Waste Transport Cask Sets Off Across America to Warn Citizens About 'Radioactive Roads and Rails" - June 6, 2002

• Science Magazine Article: "Yucca Mountain" by Rodney C. Ewing and Allison MacFarlane - June 2002

• Energy Committee Vote Results - June 5, 2002

• Taxpayer Burden from Yucca - June 5. 2002

• Convict Hops Nuclear Train, Spurs Critics Environmentalists, who Brought the Escapee's March Adventure to Light, Say it Proves it is Risky. The Industry Says is Proves it is Safe. - June 4, 2002

• IEER Recommends Alternative Nuclear Waste Plan - June 4, 2002

• Yucca Fight Gets Lift From Celebrities - June 4, 2002

• Nuke Accident on Road - June 4, 2002

• Colorado Senate Candidate Opposes Shipments - June 3, 2002

• Yucca Mountain Lurks on Senate Race Horizon - May 28, 2002

• NECONA Letter to the Editor - May 26, 2002

• Nuclear Waste Storage Still Presents a Mountain of Problems - May 26, 2002

• GAO Questions Yucca Data - May 24, 2002

• NRC Chief Backs Safety of Nuke Waste Shipments - May 23, 2002

• At Hearing, Experts Rip Safety of Waste Transport - May 22, 2002

• "Newspeak" from Nuclear Dump Supporters at May 16 Senate Hearing - May 22, 2002

• Cancer Researcher, Anderson will Warn Senators on Yucca - May 22, 2002

• DOE has no Nuclear Waste Transportation Plan, says Jim Hall, Former NTSB Chairman - May 21, 2002

• Energy Secretary Admits that Nuclear Waste will Pile Up Even After Yucca Mountain Opens - May 17, 2002
  

Action

• NATIONAL CALL-IN DAY TO STOP YUCCA MOUNTAIN

• Yucca Mt. National Tour: We Need Help!

• Endorsing the Statement Opposing Yucca Mountain Plan

• Critical Yucca Mountain Action

Information and Resources

• Citizen Alert- located in Las Vegas, Nevada. Visit their site to follow the progress of the Citizen Alert National Tour, featuring a life-size mock of waste cask that would be used to transport waste to Yucca Mountain.

• Public Citizen - a public policy group in Washington, D.C. working to stop the Yucca Mountain project.

• mapscience.org - calculate how close to your home, church, or school that shipments of high-level radioactive waste would travel.

• Fact Sheet: Nuclear Waste Transport Accidents in the U.S. - Produced by the United States Public Interest Research Group (PIRG) (PDF)