Do you know that you live along a nuclear waste transportation route?

The poster reads: 'Do You Know That You Live Along a Nuclear Waste Transportation Route? Danger: Hazardous Radioactive Material! PGE Siping, Price St., Pismo Beach; Frontage Rd., Shell Beach, Avila Rd. Fact: If and when Diablo Canyon begins operation there will be between 10 and 20 large shipments of radioactive waste in the form of Spent Fuel Rods every year, travelling by your home. Fact: In less than 5 years there have been more than 340 accidents involving the transportation of radioactive materials, 1 out of 3 releasing radioactivity into the environment. Fact: According to the Department of Transportation, there is an average of 2 accidents per week involving the transportation of radioactive materials in the US. Fact: Sandia Laboratories, a large government contractor, has calculated that a major spent fuel release in an urban area could result in over $700 million in decontamination costs and loss of income, hundreds of early fatalities and radiation illnesses, in addition to thousands of latent cancers. Fact: Federal Regulations for the transportation of radioactive materials have many shortcomings they-- don't require notification to local or state agencies, --don't require emergency response plans along routes, -- provide inadequate monitoring of the nuclear shipments. Fact: In the event of an accident en route local towns and municipalities have the burden of immediate response, supervision and clean up. Fact: over 60 local towns, cities, and counties have enacted restrictive or prohibitive legislation to protect their communities from the deadly that presented by the transportation of nuclear waste. What can we do? Support an ordinance to ban the transportation of this deadly nuclear waste through Pismo Beach. Mon. June 23, 8 PM. Pismo City Council Chambers, 1000 Bello Ave. 1980.'