Fukushima
Freeways: Shipping Nuclear Waste Across The Heartland!
An educational program presented by Beyond Nuclear’s
Kevin Kamps,
October 22 and 23, in Davenport, Iowa City, Des
Moines, and Omaha.
Nuclear Power Stations are
closing across the country including Illinois, Iowa and Nebraska. The problem
of what to do with the deadly nuclear waste remains. One of the proposed
solutions is to transport the nuclear garbage across I-80 and railways through
the 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 Road
North, Omaha, Nebraska. Refreshments will be served.
The
90-minute program will include:
·
An animation,
prepared by Scott
Portzline, Security Consultant, Three Mile Island Alert, about
radioactive waste transport risks in Iowa and Nebraska, will be shown. So too
will a 90-second aerial drone-captured video, featuring transport routes in
Pennsylvania.
·
A short informational video,
“Nuclear Transports – Eye-Witness to Rulebreaking,” also prepared by Portzline, will be shown.
·
Lessons learned
will be applied to Iowa and Nebraska.
·
The program will
be followed by plenty of time for questions and answers.
Background
Currently regulators are
considering “temporary” storage sites in Texas and New Mexico for highly
radioactive nuclear waste. Additionally,
pressure remains to create a permanent repository at Yucca Mountain in
Nevada.
3,066 rail-sized casks on
trains, and another 1,789 Legal Weight Truck-sized casks on the interstates,
would travel through Iowa, bound for Nevada, if the Yucca Mountain high-level
radioactive waste dump opens. In addition to all 4,855 casks entering from IA,
Nebraska would be burdened with another 3,673 rail-sized casks traveling
through.
The so-called “centralized
interim storage facilities” in New Mexico and/or Texas could well mean even
larger shipment numbers through Iowa and Nebraska.
Come learn more about the
risks, and how you can help prevent them.
Health, safety, security, and environmental risks include severe
accidents, or even terrorist attacks, releasing catastrophic amounts of
hazardous radioactivity, impacting an entire region; even routine, incident-free
shipments 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 Kamps
has worked as the Radioactive Waste Watchdog at Beyond Nuclear in Takoma Park,
Maryland, since July, 2007. Before that, he was the Radioactive Waste
Specialist 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, and
federal subsidies. Kevin has extensive knowledge about the risks of
radioactive waste generation, storage at reactor sites, and transportation
through communities across the country. In addition, Kevin focuses on
eliminating federal subsidies for new reactors and other wasteful nuclear
projects such as reprocessing. Kevin attended Earlham College, in
Richmond, Indiana, as well as Kalamazoo College in Kalamazoo, Michigan, where
he studied biology and chemistry.
Program Sponsors
These programs are
sponsored by the Iowa Chapter of the Sierra Club, Nuclear Free Campaign of the
Sierra Club, Beyond Nuclear, Iowa Physicians for Social Responsibility, WILPF,
Indigenous Iowa, Green State Solutions.