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Posted: 4th July 2022
Posted on July 4, 2022 by beyondnuclearinternational
Indian community will go net zero using radioactive waste funds
By Linda Pentz Gunter
What do you do if you are the decades-long reluctant custodians of high-level radioactive waste from reactors that don’t even provide your electricity?
That is the situation the Prairie Island Indian Community of Minnesota has lived with since the 1970s. But even as the tribe continues to agitate for the reactors to close and the waste to be removed from their land (*see editor’s note, 7th paragraph), they have a plan that truly exemplifies atoms for peace.