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Yucca Mountain: No Place for Nuclear Waste

Yucca Mountain, in the heart of the Western Shoshone Nation, is a place of deep spiritual significance to Shoshone and Pauite peoples. Despite this, the federal government plans to send there 98 percent of the radioactivity generated during the entire Nuclear Age, including the high-level nuclear waste generated at the U of M's research reactor. The Department of Energy (DOE) has already spent 5 billion dollars towards the project and wants to spend 50 billion more to complete it before the end of the decade. The government has no right to use Yucca Mountain this way. Newe Sogobia —the land guaranteed the Western Shoshone Nation by treaty — includes Yucca Mountain. Even the mere study of the site is a violation of the treaty. The Shoshone people have made their wishes clear: they want the DOE off their land and their mountain restored to them. Because of U.S. nuclear testing in Nevada, the Western Shoshone Nation is already the most bombed nation on earth. They suffer from widespread cancer, leukemia, and other diseases as a result of fallout from more than 1,000 atomic explosions on their territory.The article I have chosen to summarize is titled” Indian Housing: Obama Gives, But Congress May Take Away” and can be located at the following URL, http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2011/02/indian-housing-obama-gives-but-congress-may-take-away/.   As indicated by the title the article discusses the funding approved by President Obama for American Indian housing.   Obama’s proposed budget for fiscal 2012 included the amount of $700 million, but Congress may cut that amount to $500 million claiming that the funds are needed to keep the government going for fiscal year 2011.   The Housing and Urban Development (HUD) secretary Shaun Donovan commended the National American Indian Housing Council (NAIHC) for the job done in committing the stimulus funds, with 75 percent of the
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