Claire V. Watkins

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479 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Aug 2026 last heard 12 Sep

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Yes.

I was painfully aware of it.

I don't remember a time when I ever didn't know about Yucca Mountain, that nuclear repository that you're referring to.

I mean, and that's another win, you know.

There's a lot of very gnarly waste going into that mountain today, but not nuclear waste because people stood up and said no, you know.

So, yeah, my parents were involved in activism against nuclear testing and against Yucca Mountain and against water projects.

And I remember feeling really hurt by it as a kid, feeling like, so they think that's okay to do to me?

Like, I'm just a kid, you know?

It made me feel like,

we were expendable people or that we didn't matter.

I mean, that's the story usually of this type of exploitation is like there's no one there anyway.

It's an empty place, you know, and that it's already dead.

And that's a really confusing thing to be told when you're a lively kid who, you know, I understood that that was wrong and I didn't

I didn't deserve it.

And I know no one does.

And yeah, I had a sense of clarity about it that I don't really think has gone away.

So by the time I came along, the detonations were underground.

They were happening in a subterranean way, which was ostensibly better because it wouldn't be, you know, releasing... Directly into the atmosphere.

Exactly.

Yeah.

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