Nuclear Waste!!!!

Nuclear waste could be traveling through our backyard (1/2 mile from campus) within the next few years if we don't do something about it. Private Fuel Storage L.L.C. (includes Xcel Energy!) is proposing (and was recently granted a license) to build a nuclear waste facility on the Goshute Nation in Utah. IF this goes through, massive amounts of high-level nuclear waste will come from all corners of the states and be shipped on train. But what if the disaster is derailment of the nuclear waste train? Would anyone be safe...the routes (linked too below) clearly indicate that waste could travel through the City of La Crosse, through Rochester, Stoddard, and hundreds of cities from here to Utah. Are we prepared?

This conference may be one of the most important safety, environmental, and educational forums you have ever attended. Please consider coming!!

Saturday Nov 12 2005 1-5 PM
UW-L Cartwright Center

Radioactive Waste and Public Safety:
Municipalities, Counties, and Tribal Governments
free and open to the public


You can see some possible scenarios by visiting the state of Nevada's nuclear waste tranportation routes web site at:


http://www.state.nv.us/nucwaste/states/wiscon.htm

http://www.state.nv.us/nucwaste/states/minn.htm

Also Public Citizen has a nice factsheet on the PFS project and the concerns at: http://www.citizen.org/cmep/energy_enviro_nuclear/nuclear_power_plants/nukewaste/pfs/articles.cfm?ID=12740