NEVADA TEST SITE - OVER 1,000 N-TESTS - SHOSHONE DISMAY Nevada Test Site - Over 1,000 N-Tests - Shoshone Dismay

Pratap Chatterjee (investigative reporter based in Berkeley, California), "Bechtel's Nuclear Nightmares", CorpWatch, May 1, 2003

... the Nevada test site where the federal government has conducted over 1,000 nuclear tests. Although the massive underground explosions that drew thousands of protestors out to the desert town of Mercury, Nevada, are now over, Bechtel is now helping the government conduct sub-critical nuclear tests.

Native Americans from the surrounding communities continue to fight to shut down both the test site as well as the proposed Yucca Mountain dumpsite that will be located within the property that Bechtel manages. Corbyn Harney, a Western Shoshone elder who lives in the area, has been saying for years, "These tests are a direct threat to our water and thus to all life here in the desert."

So far, his complaints have fallen on deaf ears.

nuclear.com note: Mr. Chatterjee hosts the Terra Verde show on Friday afternoons on KPFA radio - Berkeley. Hear it live on the station's streaming MP3 broadcast over the net.