Prairie Island Indians seek removal of nuclear waste.(NEWS)

Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN) | November 1, 2007| | Copyright

Byline: Nina Petersen-Perlman; Staff Writer

Washington, D.C. -- A representative from the Prairie Island Indian Community was on Capitol Hill on Wednesday urging legislators to make Nevada's Yucca Mountain a permanent nuclear waste repository.

Prairie Island, about 50 miles downstream from Minneapolis on the Mississippi River, is situated 600 yards away from a nuclear waste storage site owned by Xcel Energy. Tribal Council member Ron Johnson said the waste needs to be moved to a safe facility that can be monitored.

Currently, no one from the ...

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