1
2	West Texas Has Defeated 6 Nuclear Dumps Over the Last 2 Decades
3	What’s So Bad About New Radioactive Waste Dumps?
4
5	Low Level Radioactive Waste Will Be Deadly for a LONG Time Common medical waste elements:
6	What IS Low Level Waste? Poison curtains Resins, sludges, filters, and evaporator bottoms Irradiated piping Control rods Entire nuclear power plants
7	No Place to Put High Level Waste January 10, 2002—Sec. of Energy recommended that Yucca Mountain become the country’s official high-level radioactive waste dump Yucca Mountain is in an active earthquake zone Waste will leak into the drinking water supply below.
8	Pressure for New Dumps is Building Nationally
9	More Pressure--Energy Bill Subsidizes New Nuclear Plants $1.3 billion over 4 years for building new reactors and extending the licenses of old reactors. $1 billion+ in tax breaks through 2012 for decommissioning (to encourage investment in dangerous new designs like PBMR) Price Anderson insurance subsidy for all nuke plants, including Pebble Bed Modular reactors “Streamlines” the regulatory process for building new nuclear reactors
10	Additional Nuclear Perks in the Energy Bill $1.4 billion for three additional years of the "Fusion Energy Sciences Program". DOE to carry out "Nuclear Power 2010 Program": to facilitate the construction of new nuclear plants by 2010. Establishes the Office of Spent Nuclear Fuel Research at DOE--R& D for treatment, recycling and disposal of high-level nuclear waste. Directs the Secretary of Energy to study designs for a high temperature nuclear reactor capable of producing large-scale quantities of hydrogen using thermo-chemical processes.
11	New Reactors Not Good For Your Health Nuclear Regulatory Commission: 12 people are expected to die as a direct result of each commercial nuclear reactor that is relicensed and operates for its 20-year license extension period. The NRC expects as many as 100 reactors to apply for license extensions; this would result in some 1200 cancer deaths among the U.S. population. Source: Federal Register posting of July 30, 2001 by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
12	Even MORE Pressure— Nuclear Weapons Waste The DOE has identified 131 locations that generated waste or were contaminated by DOE activities. These sites are located in 31 states and one territory. So far, about half of these sites have been cleaned up. Over the next ten years, the DOE will generate over 93 million cubic feet of waste for disposal.
13	Pressure for a Texas-Only Waste Dump is Non-Existent Maine is set to pull out of the Texas-Maine-Vermont nuclear waste compact within days. There are only about 40 entities in Texas that produce radioactive waste on an annual basis. Of these, less than half (19) generate more waste than would fit into a box with 2 ½ foot sides. Only four radioactive waste generators account for 97% of all the waste generated in Texas on an annual basis.
14	Waste Control Specialists: Looming Threat to West Texas
15	Waste from Reactors in Texas & Vermont vs Waste from Nuclear Weapons Production “Hance said it was important to remember that just taking Compact waste alone was not economically feasible for a company because of the lack of volume.” Andrews County News, Dec. 27, 2002
16	Senator Duncan’s Statement at the WCS Luncheon in Andrews County:
17	Who Represents Potential WCS Dump Sites in Texas Rep. West and Sen. Bivins will represent Andrews County Rep. Gallego and Sen. Madla will represent Ward and Loving Counties
18	Solutions
19	"1." 1. Call for a phase-out of nuclear power and replace it with cleaner, safer sustainable energy, conservation, and efficiency
20
21	Texas #1 in Solar Potential Texas leads the nation in the ability to generate energy with solar power. Setting a goal of having 10% of our state’s energy coming from renewable energy by 2010 (instead of 3%) will put Texans to work—and create a new energy boom.
22	Save Money with Energy Efficiency Energy efficiency can save more energy that we import annually or will generate with new nuclear plants. By using energy more efficiently, we could save 25-30% of the energy we use in the average home or office. New energy efficiency standards for all appliances can save consumers over $22 billion and will eliminate the need for more than 170 new power plants.
23	If Nuke Plants Are Shut Down, Fatalities Are Less in the Event of a Terrorist Attack “At twenty days after shutdown, a severe accident with containment failure will result in approximately 50% fewer latent cancer fatalities within 50 miles of the plant, and approximately 81% fewer acute fatalities within 10 miles of the plant…”
24	2. Stop WCS or other private companies from passing legislation to open private, and therefore unlimited, nuclear waste dumps in (west) Texas.
25	3. Advocate for nuclear plants to keep their radioactive waste on-site if suitability requirements are met.
26	Come to the “Beyond Nuclear Power” Conference and Day of Action! April 27-28 Lake Whitney State Park near Ft. Worth Sponsored by the Lone Star Sierra Club and others
27