2025 #UraniumFilmFestival - To Use a Mountain

USA, 2025, Director Casey Carter, Producers: Colleen Cassingham, Jonna McKone, Documentary, 99 min.

"In 1982, the United States began their search for a landfill site for their most dangerous #NuclearWaste. The Department for Energy at the time preselected six sites across the country. Each of these areas were studied and documented in detail, and their residents consulted. The film, which adopts an observational yet sensitive tone, offers us a topography of these sites and their residents. In #Texas, #Utah, #Mississippi, #Nevada, the communities excavate memories of their confrontations with the administration, as well as the distress and outcry that these caused. The film travels across America goes back in time, reminding us that these lands were originally stolen from their first occupants, as we rediscover the intimate links between nuclear, civil and military powers."

FMI - https://beyondnuclear.org/to-use-a-mountain-yucca-nts-doc-film/

#YuccaMountain #NuclearWaste #NoNukes #NoNuclearWeapons #Shoshone #Paiute #WesternShoshone #RethinkNotRestart #NuclearColonialism #WIPP #NuclearWasteRepository #Hanford #Pantex #InternationalUraniumFilmFestival

Why not store it in #NuclearMissleSilos?!! But seriously. I suppose putting nuclear waste in the Rocky Mountains, maybe near Cherry Hills (the whitest city in Colorado) wouldn't be a bad idea...😉

Many states have resisted #NuclearWaste storage plans. Northwest #Colorado is quietly opening the door.

By Scott Franz. Published January 14, 2025 at 6:00 AM MST

"A nuclear future for Colorado?

"In northwest Colorado, Solomon and AGNC’s leaders stress that their talks about importing nuclear waste are preliminary, conceptual and non-binding. But they’re also speaking favorably about the idea of building a storage facility somewhere in rural Colorado.

"In October, in between his meetings with elected officials, Solomon went on a podcast called Fire2Fission and said that nuclear waste has wrongfully earned a bad reputation. He said a lack of public education is responsible for the opposition to taking it in.

"'Let’s be a little more accurate in how we communicate these things so that we can work on correcting the course of this bad rap,' he said. “Let’s communicate better. Let’s communicate more accurately.'

"Solomon said that includes telling the public that the places where nuclear waste is currently being stored, including one near Crystal River, Florida, have been hit by hurricanes and other natural disasters without suffering any radiation leaks.

"Solomon said the idea of potentially storing nuclear waste in Colorado was also sparked by surveys indicating strong support for nuclear energy in the region.

"He tells KUNC that helping to solve the nation’s nuclear waste storage problem could eventually land Colorado an entire industry of nuclear power and clean energy.

"With the nation vowing to triple its nuclear power production by 2050, the stakes are high."

https://www.kunc.org/news/2025-01-14/many-states-have-resisted-nuclear-waste-storage-plans-northwest-colorado-is-quietly-opening-the-door
#NuclearWaste #NuclearWasteRepository #Colorado

Interesting article issued by @TheConversationUS about strategies how to manage nuclear waste and, in particular, about the challenges of communicating memory of nuclear waste repositories into the future.

https://theconversation.com/100-000-years-and-counting-how-do-we-tell-future-generations-about-highly-radioactive-nuclear-waste-repositories-199441

#NuclearWaste #NuclearPower #Nuclear #RadioactiveWaste #NuclearWasteRepository #Radioactive