Although Andrew Blowers in his book didn’t include Yucca Mountain in Nevada in his four peripheral sites, it qualifies. The choice of Yucca Mountain for the geologic disposal of U.S. nuclear waste started with forcing it into peripherality—declaring it an arid, empty wasteland, despite the presence of the Shoshone Indians.
Yucca Mountain
Resistance to nuclear waste in Bure, France
October 4, 2017Police raids in Bure, France, attempted to disrupt resistance to a deep geologic repository for nuclear waste.
Nuclear waste traveling to your neighborhood
September 17, 2016Anti-nuclear activists expose the dangers of high-level radioactive waste (HLRW) being shipped around the country, the conundrum of what to do with it and the lies the U.S. Department of Energy tells to make HLRW appear safe.