FukushimaFreeways: Shipping Nuclear Waste Across The Heartland!
 
An educational program presented by Beyond Nuclear’sKevin Kamps,
October 22 and 23, in Davenport, Iowa City, DesMoines, and Omaha.
 
Nuclear Power Stations areclosing across the country including Illinois, Iowa and Nebraska. The problemof what to do with the deadly nuclear waste remains. One of the proposedsolutions is to transport the nuclear garbage across I-80 and railways throughthe Midwest on its way to nuclear waste dumps in New Mexico, Texas, and Nevada. Please come to learn and discuss the issue, the problem and some solutions.
Monday,October 22, 2018 at 12:30 PM – 2 PM.  Davenport Public Library, 6000 Eastern Ave, Davenport, Iowa. Refreshments will be served.
Monday,October 22, 2018 at 6:30 PM – 8 PM.  Johnson County Ambulance, 808 S Dubuque St, Iowa City, Iowa. Refreshments will be served.
Tuesday,October 23, 2018 at 12:30 PM – 2 PM.  Des Moines Public Library (Central), 1000 Grand Avenue, Des Moines, Iowa. Refreshments will be served.
Tuesday,October 23, 6:30 to 8pm. UNO Barbara Weitz Community Engagement Center, 6400 South, University Drive RoadNorth, Omaha, Nebraska.  Refreshments will be served.
 
The90-minute program will include:
 
·        A presentation byKevin Kamps, Radioactive Waste Specialist for Beyond Nuclear, addressing the safety andsecurity risks of transporting highly radioactive irradiated nuclear fuel onthe roads and rails, as proposed in legislationcurrently before the U.S. Congress. He will alsodiscuss the risks of wet storage pool fires, and the interim alternative of HardenedOn-Site Storage (HOSS), as well as the need to stopgenerating high-level radioactive waste.
 
·        An animation,prepared by ScottPortzline, Security Consultant, Three Mile Island Alert, aboutradioactive waste transport risks in Iowa and Nebraska, will be shown. So toowill a 90-second aerial drone-captured video, featuring transport routes inPennsylvania. 
 
·        A short informational video,“Nuclear Transports – Eye-Witness to Rulebreaking,” also prepared by Portzline, will be shown. 
 
·        Lessons learnedwill be applied to Iowa and Nebraska.
 
·        The program willbe followed by plenty of time for questions and answers.
 
 
Background
Currently regulators areconsidering “temporary” storage sites in Texas and New Mexico for highlyradioactive nuclear waste.  Additionally,pressure remains to create a permanent repository at Yucca Mountain inNevada.  
 
Iowa and Nebraska freewaysand railroads will be a major shipping route for that waste.  Bargeshipments into the Port of Omaha are alsoproposed.  
 
3,066 rail-sized casks ontrains, and another 1,789 Legal Weight Truck-sized casks on the interstates,would travel through Iowa, bound for Nevada, if the Yucca Mountain high-levelradioactive waste dump opens. In addition to all 4,855 casks entering from IA,Nebraska would be burdened with another 3,673 rail-sized casks travelingthrough. 
 
The so-called “centralizedinterim storage facilities” in New Mexico and/or Texas could well mean evenlarger shipment numbers through Iowa and Nebraska. 
 
Come learn more about therisks, and how you can help prevent them. Health, safety, security, and environmental risks include severeaccidents, or even terrorist attacks, releasing catastrophic amounts ofhazardous radioactivity, impacting an entire region; even routine, incident-freeshipments would be like “mobile X-ray machines that can’t be turned off,”delivering a harmful dose at close range as they pass by. 
 
Biography of Keven Kamps
Kevin Kampshas worked as the Radioactive Waste Watchdog at Beyond Nuclear in Takoma Park,Maryland, since July, 2007.  Before that, he was the Radioactive WasteSpecialist at Nuclear Information & Resource Service in Washington,D.C.  Kevin specializes in high-level waste management and transportation,new and existing reactors, decommissioning, Congress watch, climate change, andfederal subsidies.  Kevin has extensive knowledge about the risks ofradioactive waste generation, storage at reactor sites, and transportationthrough communities across the country.  In addition, Kevin focuses oneliminating federal subsidies for new reactors and other wasteful nuclearprojects such as reprocessing.  Kevin attended Earlham College, inRichmond, Indiana, as well as Kalamazoo College in Kalamazoo, Michigan, wherehe studied biology and chemistry.
 
Program Sponsors
These programs aresponsored by the Iowa Chapter of the Sierra Club, Nuclear Free Campaign of theSierra Club, Beyond Nuclear, Iowa Physicians for Social Responsibility, WILPF,Indigenous Iowa, Green State Solutions.

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