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Gov. Kathy Hochul insists that nuclear power is the future for New York. We at the American Indian Law Alliance strongly oppose this view and call for caution.

Nuclear reactors are fundamentally dangerous and harmful to the environment and all living beings. Nuclear power is a controlled explosion until it becomes uncontrolled, at which point it turns deadly. Humans cannot control what is inherently uncontrollable.

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Incidents such as Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania and Church Rock in New Mexico in 1979, Chernobyl in 1986, Fukushima in Japan in 2011 — just a few of the most infamous nuclear disasters — highlight this danger.

The second and still unsolved problem of nuclear power is waste storage and disposal. There are no viable political, economic or environmental solutions to safely storing waste for at least 100,000 years.

Even if the state is trying to keep nuclear waste safe, there are no safeguards to stop the federal government from superseding the wishes of the state. New York unanimously passed the “Save the Hudson Act” in August 2023 to prevent toxic waste from being dumped into the Hudson. But U.S.........

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