Activists in Georgia Protest Plan to Transport Waste to Yucca

摘要

Anti-nuclear activists gathered in Decatur, GA to protest what they believe is a potentially disastrous plan to transport more than 1,500 shipments of nuclear waste across the state on the way to a federal disposal site in Nevada. The event by Nuclear Watch South is part of a coordinated national campaign protesting a plan under consideration in Congress to transport nuclear waste across the country to a disposal site at Yucca Mountain in Nevada. The Yucca Mountain plan has been on the books for years but tied up in litigation and political debate. President Obama shelved the plan after his election 2008, but some Republicans in Congress have tried to revive it.