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With the recent deal between the Gov and Cali legislature re: reducing greenhouse gas emissions, proponents of nuclear power are sure to push for more nuke plants as a 'solution' to global warming. Nuclear power is a taxpayer subsidized, carcinogen-producing, dangerous and wasteful scam. For alternatives that are really wothwhile, check the Nuclear Information and Resource Center's website and fight to shut down the nukes.
From a post on 'new west notes' blog:
RE: “With big moves in store against global warming, what do you all think these days about nuclear power?”
Nuclear Power is not a solution until there are safe ways to store or dispose of the toxic radioactive waste. In addition, nuclear plants release high levels of carcinogens into the water and air, including tritium, during their routine operation.
If nuclear power is so safe, then why do taxpayers sunsidize their insurance through the Anderson Act? In the event of a meltdown, we’ll pay for the clean up, not the toxic polluters General Electric, Westinghouse, Entergy, et al.
The nuclear industry writes the rules governing their ‘regulation’ through the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. It is engaged in a PR campaign to cover up the history of radioactive pollution, taxpayer subsidies, and leaking plants with embrittled reactor domes (or tombs). Now they want to ship the poison across the US in unmarked trucks with casks (caskets) filled with radioactive waste. As long as Nevada politicians stand in the way of turning their state into more of a dump than it already is, we’ll avoid the risky transport of the nuke trash through our cities. Meanwhile the waste remains onsite at old, unsecure plants, vulnerable to a terrorist attack.
An attack on San Onofre or Indian Point in New York would kill tens of thousands of people and make a huge portion of the western or northeastern U.S. uninhabitable.
NO NUKES!
Whatever happened to CONSERVATION!?!??!
For real information on nuclear power, check Citizens Awareness Network at http://www.nukebusters.org
or the Nuclear Information Resource Service,
http://www.nirs.org
Alternatives to Nuclear:
http://www.nirs.org/alternatives/alternativeshome.htm
RE: “With big moves in store against global warming, what do you all think these days about nuclear power?”
Nuclear Power is not a solution until there are safe ways to store or dispose of the toxic radioactive waste. In addition, nuclear plants release high levels of carcinogens into the water and air, including tritium, during their routine operation.
If nuclear power is so safe, then why do taxpayers sunsidize their insurance through the Anderson Act? In the event of a meltdown, we’ll pay for the clean up, not the toxic polluters General Electric, Westinghouse, Entergy, et al.
The nuclear industry writes the rules governing their ‘regulation’ through the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. It is engaged in a PR campaign to cover up the history of radioactive pollution, taxpayer subsidies, and leaking plants with embrittled reactor domes (or tombs). Now they want to ship the poison across the US in unmarked trucks with casks (caskets) filled with radioactive waste. As long as Nevada politicians stand in the way of turning their state into more of a dump than it already is, we’ll avoid the risky transport of the nuke trash through our cities. Meanwhile the waste remains onsite at old, unsecure plants, vulnerable to a terrorist attack.
An attack on San Onofre or Indian Point in New York would kill tens of thousands of people and make a huge portion of the western or northeastern U.S. uninhabitable.
NO NUKES!
Whatever happened to CONSERVATION!?!??!
For real information on nuclear power, check Citizens Awareness Network at http://www.nukebusters.org
or the Nuclear Information Resource Service,
http://www.nirs.org
Alternatives to Nuclear:
http://www.nirs.org/alternatives/alternativeshome.htm
For more information:
http://www.nirs.org/alternatives/alternati...
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The nuclear power industry and its governmental allies are spending tens of millions of dollars annually to promote atomic power as a “clean air” energy source and to encourage the construction of new nuclear reactors in the U.S. and worldwide. With Russia’s ratification of the Kyoto Protocol, thereby putting this important agreement into effect, this industry initiative is expected to increase. If successful, we can expect to see a revival—we would call it a “relapse”-- of reactor construction across the globe. There already are numerous proposals for new reactors on nearly every continent.
Yet nuclear power is not only ineffective at addressing climate change, when the entire fuel chain is examined, nuclear power is found to be a producer of greenhouse gases. Adding enough nuclear power to make a meaningful reduction in greenhouse gas emissions would cost trillions of dollars, create tens of thousands of tons of lethal high-level radioactive waste, contribute to further proliferation of nuclear weapons materials, result in a Chernobyl-scale accident once every decade or so, and, perhaps most significantly, squander the resources necessary to implement meaningful climate change mitigation policies.
In November 2000 the world recognized nuclear power as a dirty, dangerous and unnecessary technology by refusing to give it greenhouse gas credits during the UN Climate Change talks in the Hague. The world dealt nuclear power a further blow when a UN Sustainable Development Conference refused to label nuclear a sustainable technology in April 2001.
This section includes background information on nuclear power and climate change, documents from the COP 6 meeting of the Kyoto Protocol held in the Hague and other materials. This issue is a high priority for the international NIRS/WISE network, and you can expect to see more materials added here in the coming months.
http://www.nirs.org/