3-day Yucca protest planned
Wednesday, May 8, 2002 | 10:12 a.m.
Indians, peace groups and international environmental activists announced a three-day demonstration in the Nevada desert against a plan to bury the nation's nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain.
The Western Shoshone and Citizen Alert leaders said the Mother's Day weekend protest begins Friday. Kalynda Tilges, nuclear issues coordinator for Citizen Alert, predicted up to 300 people would attend.
Activists will gather in a peace camp across U.S. Highway 95 from the Nevada Test Site, where the nation tested nuclear weapons from 1951 until 1992. The Energy Department is planning a high-level nuclear waste repository at nearby Yucca Mountain, 90 miles northwest of Las Vegas, to bury 77,000 tons of radioactive wastes.
The Western Shoshone people are prepared to walk around the Test Site to reach the peace camp on Saturday.
On Sunday at noon mothers will lead a procession to the main gates of the Test Site.
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