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Native America Calling: Where to store nuclear waste?
Wednesday, March 23, 2022
Where to store nuclear waste?
After decades of legal and political battles have pushed Nevada’s Yucca Mountain out of discussion as the permanent nuclear waste repository.
But that means tribes like the Prairie Island Indian Community in Minnesota and the Yakama Nation in Washington will have to endure waste storage at temporary holding sites nearby.
Guests on Native America Calling
Mike Childs Jr., treasurer for the Prairie Island Indian Community
Rose Ferri, project tracking, resource analyst, and cultural resource lead for the Yakama Nation’s Environmental Restoration Waste Management Program
Jonathan Perry, director of the Eastern Navajo Diné Against Uranium Mining and president of the Becenti Chapter on the Navajo Nation
Jesse Deer In Water, community organizer for Citizens’ Resistance At Fermi Two, or “CRAFT”
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