Native American Tribe Claims Nuclear Waste Can't be Stored on its Land

摘要

To the Western Shoshone, most of Nevada isn't Nevada. At least not in the current sense. More than 150 years after the first treaty between the Western Shoshone and the federal government was signed, the two nations disagree on the outcome—the Shoshone say they never turned over their land. The majority of the land in Nevada falls under the Shoshone's historical claim. It includes the Nevada National Security Site (formerly Nevada Test Site), which has released hundreds of tons of fallout in its operational history. It also includes Yucca Mountain, which has been the center of a decades-long argument centered on the long-term storage of the nation's nuclear waste.