No Way Blogswarm Day: No Nuclear Waste Storage!

Last night I posted about today’s “No Way Blogswarm Day “
Here are the blogsters, so far, that are participating and who have posted about nuclear waste:

NO DAMN WAY Blogswarm Day – April 28, 2006

UTAH IS NOT A NUCLEAR WASTE DUMPING GROUND!

Nuclear Waste in Utah

Here are links to recent news articles about nuclear waste in Utah along with nuclear waste issue-related articles from elsewhere:

Salt Lake Tribune:
Political Leaders Gather Friday to Oppose N-waste
Feds: No charges against Yucca scientists
A waste proposal: DOE should not have sole say over Yucca shipments (Editorial)
Salt Lake City Weekly: What’s in a Name
Deseret News: Salt Lake-based firm touts recycling for nuclear waste disposal
Salt Lake County joins foes of nuclear waste: Council opposes the shipment of fuel rods to Goshute site
Tooele Transcript Bulletin: EnergySolutions predicts demise of Skull Valley N-waste storage
Oneworld.net, posted on Common Dreams: A Nuclear Waste: UN Condemned for Promoting ‘Peaceful’ Nuclear Technology
Energy Business Review, US: Sellafield Worries Cast Shadow Over UK Nuclear Industry
TMCnet, US: Radioactive Material Leaked at Nuclear Reprocessing Plant in Aomori
Australian Green Party: Global Responsibility for Uranium Ends with Waste
Reuters, posted on Common Dreams: Nuclear Waste: Bury It and Forget?

Reference
Shundahai Network
HEAL Utah

UTAH IS NOT A NUCLEAR WASTE DUMPING GROUND!

Utah Governor “blasts” the blast

The Salt Lake Tribune has published the news that Utah Governor Jon Huntsman wants the Divine Strake Test to be held somewhere else.

“We are downwind,” said Huntsman. “I believe that, obviously, we need a strong national security position, a strong defense position, and capabilities to protect us abroad. But do the testing somewhere else, where citizens aren’t downwind.”

Where would that be?

The remarks came the same day U.S. Rep. Jim Matheson and U.S. Sens. Orrin Hatch and Bob Bennett demanded, once again, that more basic safety data be made public. The mounting information requests also signal the possibility of a delay in the controversial experiment, an explosion of conventional explosives, not nuclear ones.

No matter where such a blast would be tested some form of life would be affected. Not to mention that fact that analysts say this is a precursor to developing more nuclear bombs – and c’mon……there is no such thing as a “safe” test!

Wake up people!

Other articles:
Deseret News: Huntsman opposes blast test: Governor worries it will stir up past radioactive dust

STOP THE DIVINE STRAKE!

Stop Genocide, Save Darfur: This weekend’s protests

This weekend there will be protests in Utah to demand a stop to the genocide that is occuring in Darfur:

  • Saturday in Provo
    Demonstration set against child soldiers

  • Sunday in Salt Lake

  • Today in history

    April 28

    1961
    Catholic workers refuse to leave park in Manhattan during nuclear civil defense drill
    1977
    Mothers hold first rally for the disappeared at Plaza de la Maya, Buenos Aires

    1978
    At the Rocky Flats nuclear weapons facility, near Denver, over 5,000 protested and 284 were arrested for blocking railroad tracks entering the plant.


    Criminal trespasser, Lynn Langford – Rocky Flats nuclear weapons facility, 1978

    Photo from the early 1980s, people circle the facility in protest.

    1996
    Sixty-one arrested for dismantling railroad tracks leading out of Gundremmingen nuclear power station, Bavaria, Germany.

    Blogswarms

    Utah Blogswarms
    Other Blogswarms

    My posts on nuclear waste issues

    Here are links to posts I’ve made on the nuclear waste issue in Utah:

    Series of posts on the Goshute Reservation and Private Fuel Storage and nuclear waste in general.

    Tell the BLM: no nuke waste across public lands

    From HEAL Utah:

    The Bureau of Land Management is accepting public comments until May 8th on whether or not Private Fuel Storage should be allowed a right-of-way to transport high-level nuclear waste across public lands into Skull Valley. Please take a minute to submit your comments (click here to take action), then forward this email to your friends and family.

    The recent creation of the Cedar Mountain Wilderness Area prevents PFS from building a rail-line into Skull Valley. The company is now proposing to construct a waste transfer station along I-80 to transfer high-level nuclear waste from train cars onto trucks. PFS needs approval from the BLM to go through with this plan, but the BLM wants to hear from you first!

    For more information and to send your comments, click here http://www.healutah.org/PFSalert.html.

    Thanks for taking action,

    John Urgo
    Outreach Director
    HEAL Utah
    68 S Main St, Suite 400
    SLC, UT 84101
    (801) 355-5055
    john@healutah.org

    NO DAMN WAY: UTAH IS NOT A NUCLEAR WASTE DUMPING GROUND!

    “No Way Blogswarm Day”- Friday, April 28

    Utah Policy has organized the first ever Utah “blogswarm” for Friday, April 28. The topic: Nuclear Waste Storage in Utah. All bloggers are encouraged to post on this topic today and tomorrow. There is a press conference on Friday which I will be unable to attend due to my public school teaching responsibilities, but I hope that many readers here will be able to.

    Here are things you can do TOMORROW, Friday, April 28:
    1. Attend the press conference Friday at noon in the State Office Building. Show your opposition to nuclear waste by showing up in person.
    2. Write a letter, or send an e-mail message to the BLM. Here’s a link to a sample letter. Here’s the address:

    Pam Schuller
    U.S. Bureau of Land Management
    Salt Lake Field Office
    2370 South 2300 West
    Salt Lake City, Utah 84119
    Email: pam_schuller@blm.gov

    3. If you belong to a business, association or any organization, send an e-mail blast to all members/employees encouraging them to attend the press conference and send a message to the BLM before May 8.
    4. Send a message to friends, family members, etc., encouraging them to do the same.

    Background info on the nuclear storage waste issue:

  • Dee’s Dotes1 and Dee’s Dotes2 posts on this topic
    Shundahai Network
    HEAL Utah

  • Salt Lake Chamber of Commerce
  • Orrin Hatch’s website

    NO DAMN WAY: UTAH IS NOT A NUCLEAR WASTE DUMPING GROUND!

  • Blogger featured in D-News

    SLCspin is featured in a Deseret News article from April 24.