100 Reasons to Get Involved

Reason # 88: Reconsider N-Waste Transport

Transportating high-level radioactive waste to the Yucca Mountain repository, located 90 miles outside Las Vegas, would involve truck or rail shipments through 43 states and passing within one-half mile of the homes of tens of millions of people. To deposit the country's accrued nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain would require multiple daily shipments lasting 38 years. Is it worth the risks?