Yucca Mountain Licensing& Energy Bill-Nuclear Subsidies-contact Senators

[Guest guest]

Attend important Yucca Mountain/Mobile Chernobyl licensing proceeding

meeting Wed., June 15 at 10 a.m. The dial-in number for the meeting is 888-333

0879

and the passcode is 301292 followed by the " # " sign. RSVP in advance with

Belinda at DOE’s law firm, telephone 804-788-8581, e-mail --

_bwright@..._ (mailto:bwright@...) .

Dear friends and colleagues concerned about radioactive waste and its

transportation through your communities:

According to the U.S. Dept. of Energy's Feb. 2002 Final Environmental Impact

Statement for Yucca Mountain, 45 states plus the District of Columbia have

high-level radioactive waste truck, train, and barge routes targeted to run

through them. Despite this, the federal government has kept these communities

almost entirely in the dark about the potential impacts of this transport.

Presently, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, despite the lack of

applicable EPA regulations for Yucca Mountain and the recent revelations of

falsified data, is rushing full steam ahead to set in stone the ground rules

that

will apply to the 3- to 4-year long Yucca Mountain licensing proceeding. DOE

hopes to certify its full document collection in the near future, and then

apply for a license to NRC early next year. This could have a major effect on

cities and communities along the proposed waste transportation routes! The

rules being set now could effectively limit the ability of many communities and

public interest organizations to become involved in the licensing process and

have their concerns addressed.

Facing this possibility, we need to strongly remind DOE and NRC that

communities and organizations around the country are as concerned as ever about

the

problems with the Yucca Mountain site, the transportation of highly

radioactive waste that will result if this dump opens, and the present push to

relicense old--and build new--nuclear reactors, which will only make these

problems

worse. An important meeting is taking place this week on Wednesday, June 15

at 10 a.m. EDT, at the law firm of Hunton & (DOE's law firm), 1900 K

Street NW., 12th Floor Washington, DC. To keep rules from being set up that

would effectively preclude meaningful public and city-county involvement,

people expressing concern need to be present at this meeting!

If you cannot attend in person, please attend this meeting by phone. Please

also spread the word to other concerned groups and communities across the US.

It's important that we not only have the DC based groups present in the

room, but as many as possible of our community and grassroots allies present on

the phone!

To attend in person, or to take part by phone, please RSVP as soon as

possible to counsel for DOE via Ms. Belinda , telephone 804-788-8581,

e-mail

-- bwright@... Please include: (a) Name of person desiring to

attend; ( organizational affiliation, if any; © daytime phone number; (d)

e-mail address; (e) mailing address; and (f) statement as to whether the

person intends to participate in person, or desires to participate remotely in

the

event that electronic facilities can be made available [we have requested

more than once that phone lines be made available for those unable to attend in

person]. The dial-in number for the meeting is 888-333 0879 and the passcode

is 301292 followed by the " # " sign.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us. We'll be pulling

together talking points for the meeting in advance, which we will share with

everyone via email.

Thanks.

and

Kemp

Policy Analyst, Nuclear Energy and Waste Critical Mass Energy and

Environment Program Public Citizen

p: 202.454.5176

f: 202.547.7392

mkemp@...

_www.citizen.org/cmep_ (mip://03177a88/www.citizen.org/cmep)

Kamps

Nuclear Waste Specialist

Nuclear Information and Resource Service

p: 202.328.0002

f: 202.462.2183

kevin@...

_www.nirs.org_ (mip://03177a88/www.nirs.org)

Energy Bill Reaches Senate Floor—Act NOW!!

The Senate will be taking up the energy bill this week: it’s time to turn up

the pressure!

The exact sequence of events is unknown, and, in fact, so are the amounts

and types of subsidies for nuclear power that will be in the bill. The

McCain-Lieberman climate change bill has one set of subsidies, and that bill

likely

will be voted on as an amendment to the full energy bill. (An analysis of

these subsidies, prepared by US PIRG, is available on NIRS’ website,

_www.nirs.org_ (http://www.nirs.org/) ). In addition, the Senate Finance

Committee will

consider nuclear subsidies as well, and these are likely to be added to the

energy bill.

While the legislative process is complex, the message for you is simple:

Please call your Senators and tell them No Subsidies for Nuclear Power. Capitol

Switchboard is 202-224-3121. Two toll-free numbers that seem to work are:

1-888-355-3588 or 1-877-762-8762.

When you’ve finished calling, please ask your friends and colleagues to call

as well. It will really take the combined voices of all of us to defeat the

nuclear industry.

Then, you can send an e-mail to your Senators by going to

_http://www.nuke.retro.com_ (http://www.nuke.retro.com/) . Enjoy the Mark Fiore

animation, and

then click on the link to the action page.

Finally, if you haven’t yet signed the Petition for a Sustainable Energy

Future, please do so now, at _http://www.nirs.org_ (http://www.nirs.org/) and

forward it to your friends too.

Thank you for all of your help and activism!

tte

Executive Director

Nuclear Information and Resource Service

_nirsnet@..._ (mailto:nirsnet@...)