Stop Fukushima Freeways!
The Stop Fukushima Freeways Campaign shows the perils of the massive and unnecessary radioactive waste transportation that would occur across the U.S. if the moribund and scientifically-indefensible Yucca Mountain, Nevada waste dump were to be revived. Such large-scale transport would also occur if, as some in Congress advocate, a "centralized interim storage" site for high-level radioactive waste were created. In that case, the waste would either have to move twice (once to the interim site, and then to a permanent site), thus doubling the risks, or the "interim" site would become a de facto permanent waste dump--without going through the necessary scientific characterization.
The solution to the radioactive waste problem begins with ending its generation as quickly as possible. And we work non-stop to acheive that goal. But for the highly radioactive waste that exists and continues to be produced, putting it on trucks, train cars and barges and transporting it across the country to a scientifically-indefensible site solely for the benefit of the nuclear power industry is an unacceptable risk to our cities, our communities, our agricultural heartland, our entire nation.
Twenty years ago, the Stop Mobile Chernobyl Campaign was launched to defeat a similar Congressional effort to open Yucca Mountain and/or establish a "centralized interim storage" site and thus begin a national radioactive waste transportation program. That campaign ultimately led to a veto by President Bill Clinton of such legislation that was sustained in the Senate by one vote.
Yucca Mountain Transportation Issues. A presentation by Fred Dilger, PhD., a consultant to the State of Nevada, February 2015.
Appendix G: Transportation; from the Department of Energy’s 2002 Environmental Impact Statement on the proposal for a nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain. This appendix to the EIS is difficult to find online, so we have posted it here. Large file (250 pages, 11 mb).
Maps and Statistics
Road and Rails transport This link takes you to a publication from the State of Nevada, which includes transport maps for every state. We will post individual state maps separately when those are available.
Full-size national transportation map; to download, right click and choose "save image."
This sheet, excerpted from the State of Nevada report, shows the number of casks, by road and rail, that would be shipped from each state under a full-scale atomic waste transportation program. Here is the cover page of that report, for citation purposes.
Thank you to everyone who participated in the October 27 launch of the Stop Fukushima Freeways Campaign! The response was terrific, with articles appearing in media outlets across the country. Here is a partial list:
Chattanooga Free Press Editorial 
From Patrick Donnelly and Diane Lopez Hughes of the Armargosa Conservancy, article in the Pahrump Valley Times (close to Yucca Mt) http://pvtimes.com/news/amargosa-conservancy-voices-concerns-over-nuclear-waste-shipments.html?m
E & E News article on Reid and other Dems in Congress opposing “omnibus riders” including funds for nuclear waste: 
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