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RESOLUTION NO. 7637-01 <br /> <br />BYi Corrigan, Dunn, FitzGerald, <br />George, Roth, Seelie, Skindell~ <br /> <br /> A RESOLUTION opposing Yucca Mountain, Nevada being selected as <br />the high-level nuclear waste repository and the transportation of high-level radioactive <br />waste threugh Lakewood, Ohio. <br /> <br /> WHEREAS, transportation of high-level nuclear waste to Yucca Mountain, <br />Nevada will pas through 43 states within half a mile of 50 million Americans pu~ting <br />them at risk for exposure to potential high levels of radiation due to terrorist attacks, <br />sabotage, or when inevitable accidents occur, as well as for lower levels of exposure <br />during normal transportation; and <br /> <br /> WHEREAS, high level nuclear wastes will most likely move through Ohio <br />on 1-90, 1-480, the Ohio Turnpike, 1-70 and major rail lines through major Ohio urban <br />and farmland areas; and <br /> <br /> WHEREAS, between 35,000 and 100,000 shipments will be required <br />during the 25-year emplacement phase of Yucca Mountain, and most of these <br />shipments would be routed through the most heavily populated areas of major <br />U S.cities; and <br /> <br /> WHEREAS, the Ohio Turnpike workers passed a resolution saying, "One <br />of the routes that the DOE has designated to carry this deadly cargo is the Ohio <br />Turnpike One thousand workers on the Ohio Turnpike - toll collectors and <br />maintenance workers represented by UE Local 791 - would be placed on the "front <br />lines" of nuclear danger. In addition, thousands of people travel the turnpike every day. <br />Miltions of people live along the path of the Turnpike, including the metropolitan areas <br />of Youngstown, Cleveland, Akron and Toledo. Ail of them may be in harms way'; and <br /> <br /> WHEREAS, in October 200'i, the U S Department of Energy (DOE) <br />suspended a single rail shipment of high-level nuclear waste realizing that radiological <br />shipments are potential terrorist targets after September '11 Yet, the most likely plan to <br />ship high-level nuclear waste to Yucca Mountain will impact Ohioans (especially <br />northern Ohioans) for the next 25 years providing unacceptable ongoing security <br />concerns from terrorist threats; and <br /> <br /> WHEREAS, according to DOE's own data, between 70 and 310 <br />accidents, and over 1,000 "incidents" would occur during a program of moving nuclear <br />waste by truck DOE estimates that a shipping accident with highly radioactive waste <br />would impact public health and safety within a 50 mile radius; and <br /> <br /> WHEREAS, a person standing one yard away from an unshielded, 10 <br />year old fuel assembly would receive a lethal dose of radioactivity in less than three <br />minutes. The high-level nuclear waste containers that will hold this waste during <br />shipment have been tested only in computer simulations and have never been <br />physically tested for ability to withstand an accident; and <br /> <br /> WHEREAS, the transportation of high level nuclear waste will likely <br />significantly decrease the property values of properties along the targeted <br />transportation route; and <br /> <br /> <br />