Yucca is a racist intentionally picked place to dump nuclear waste on Native reservations. This is nuclear colonialism.

<Now, with over 60 years of uranium mining, nuclear weapons production and nuclear power, we face a high-level nuclear waste crisis. Once again, power brokers have looked to exploit American Indian lands, resources and peoples. In the twenty year process of researching and authorizing a federal high-level nuclear waste repository site, only sites on American Indian land were seriously considered. In addition to the Yucca Mountain site, American Indian nations were also targeted for temporary waste storage through the now-defunct Monitored Retrievable Storage (MRS) program.17 And recently, a proposal by Private Fuel Storage (PFS) and the Skull Valley Goshutes to temporarily store nuclear waste at Skull Valley Goshute reservation was defeated by Skull Valley activists working with the State of Utah against the Skull Valley government and PFS.18 The struggle over the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste site is, as Kuletz pointed out, a continuation of struggles against nuclear colonialism: ‘‘Indian protests over the use of Yucca Mountain as a high-level nuclear waste dump cannot be seen as an anomaly. Rather, they are a part of a persistent pattern of resistance to military occupation and nuclear activity.’’19 Although we do not yet know the health and environmental effects of permanent nuclear waste storage, nuclear colonialism is not just about health and environmental devastation. It also intersects with sovereignty, nuclearism and colonialism, to which I now turn.>