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APRIL 27, 2001

A group of protesters held a rally in Salt Lake City on Thursday to express their opposition to a proposal to store nuclear waste on the Skull Valley Goshute Reservation in Utah.

The tribe has signed a lease agreement with Private Fuel Storage (PFS) to store high-level nuclear waste on its 18,000-acre reservation in northwestern Utah. The federal government has to approve the facility.

A number of state politicans, including Governor Mike Leavitt, oppose the facility. The state enacted a number of laws aimed at stopping it, to which the tribe and its partners filed suit.

Get the Story:
Opponents of Nuclear Waste Rally in Salt Lake City (The Salt Lake Tribune 4/27)

Relevant Links:
Utah Office of High Level Nuclear Waste Opposition - http://www.eq.state.ut.us/HLW/Hlw_opp.htm
Private Fuel Storage Facility Application, Nuclear Regulatory Commission - http://www.nrc.gov/OPA/reports/pfs.htm
Private Fuel Storage - http://www.privatefuelstorage.com
The Skull Valley Goshutes - http://www.skullvalleygoshutes.org

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