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2025 #UraniumFilmFestival - To Use a Mountain

USA, 2025, Director Casey Carter, Producers: Colleen Cassingham, Jonna McKone, Documentary, 99 min.

"In 1982, the United States began their search for a landfill site for their most dangerous #NuclearWaste. The Department for Energy at the time preselected six sites across the country. Each of these areas were studied and documented in detail, and their residents consulted. The film, which adopts an observational yet sensitive tone, offers us a topography of these sites and their residents. In #Texas, #Utah, #Mississippi, #Nevada, the communities excavate memories of their confrontations with the administration, as well as the distress and outcry that these caused. The film travels across America goes back in time, reminding us that these lands were originally stolen from their first occupants, as we rediscover the intimate links between nuclear, civil and military powers."

FMI - https://beyondnuclear.org/to-use-a-mountain-yucca-nts-doc-film/

#YuccaMountain #NuclearWaste #NoNukes #NoNuclearWeapons #Shoshone #Paiute #WesternShoshone #RethinkNotRestart #NuclearColonialism #WIPP #NuclearWasteRepository #Hanford #Pantex #InternationalUraniumFilmFestival

So yeah, I'm pretty sure the #RockyMountains are more geologically stable than #YuccaMountain or #WIPP in #NewMexico. And with #ClimateChange trashing coastlines, it's probably NOT a good idea to keep storing used #NuclearFuel next to the plants (which are usually situated near water sources). However, we should only use #NuclearPower to get us through until #renewables and #BatteryStorage becomes efficient and non-toxic -- and NOT poison the future for garbled recipes or greedy CEOs (any more than we already have)!
#NuclearWaste #NoNukesForAI #NuclearWasteRepository

Why not store it in #NuclearMissleSilos?!! But seriously. I suppose putting nuclear waste in the Rocky Mountains, maybe near Cherry Hills (the whitest city in Colorado) wouldn't be a bad idea...😉

Many states have resisted #NuclearWaste storage plans. Northwest #Colorado is quietly opening the door.

By Scott Franz. Published January 14, 2025 at 6:00 AM MST

"A nuclear future for Colorado?

"In northwest Colorado, Solomon and AGNC’s leaders stress that their talks about importing nuclear waste are preliminary, conceptual and non-binding. But they’re also speaking favorably about the idea of building a storage facility somewhere in rural Colorado.

"In October, in between his meetings with elected officials, Solomon went on a podcast called Fire2Fission and said that nuclear waste has wrongfully earned a bad reputation. He said a lack of public education is responsible for the opposition to taking it in.

"'Let’s be a little more accurate in how we communicate these things so that we can work on correcting the course of this bad rap,' he said. “Let’s communicate better. Let’s communicate more accurately.'

"Solomon said that includes telling the public that the places where nuclear waste is currently being stored, including one near Crystal River, Florida, have been hit by hurricanes and other natural disasters without suffering any radiation leaks.

"Solomon said the idea of potentially storing nuclear waste in Colorado was also sparked by surveys indicating strong support for nuclear energy in the region.

"He tells KUNC that helping to solve the nation’s nuclear waste storage problem could eventually land Colorado an entire industry of nuclear power and clean energy.

"With the nation vowing to triple its nuclear power production by 2050, the stakes are high."

https://www.kunc.org/news/2025-01-14/many-states-have-resisted-nuclear-waste-storage-plans-northwest-colorado-is-quietly-opening-the-door
#NuclearWaste #NuclearWasteRepository #Colorado

'Not realistic': #SaugeenOjibwayNation may not vote on #NuclearWaste plan in 2024

By Scott Miller
Published: May 24, 2024 at 4:46PM EDT

"In January 2020, members of the Saugeen Ojibway Nation voted overwhelmingly against plans to bury #Ontario’s low and intermediate level nuclear waste within two kilometres of #LakeHuron.

"Nadjiwon said while this project is different, the biggest question facing SON voters will be whether containing the radioactive waste in underground containers is the safest thing to do.

'“You’ve got to ask yourself the question: if they do break down, what is the risk of that un-contained radioactive waste getting to the surface, where it could have an impact?' asked Nadjiwon."

Read more:
https://www.ctvnews.ca/london/article/not-realistic-saugeen-ojibway-nation-may-not-vote-on-nuclear-waste-plan-in-2024/
#FirstNations #NuclearWasteRepository

Interesting article issued by @TheConversationUS about strategies how to manage nuclear waste and, in particular, about the challenges of communicating memory of nuclear waste repositories into the future.

https://theconversation.com/100-000-years-and-counting-how-do-we-tell-future-generations-about-highly-radioactive-nuclear-waste-repositories-199441

#NuclearWaste #NuclearPower #Nuclear #RadioactiveWaste #NuclearWasteRepository #Radioactive