Tell Congress: No more taxpayer $ for more nuclear power

April 13, 2011

The crisis at the Fukushima nuclear site in Japan continues, seemingly without end. The accident is now officially on the scale of Chernobyl. The "evacuation" zone has expanded, and in reality has become a permanent relocation zone. Radiation contamination has reached the food supply and seawater in the Pacific Ocean.

We are posting updates regularly on our website: www.nirs.org. Please check often for new information.

The lesson of this catastrophe is clear: we must end the use of nuclear power.

And that must start with the prevention of any new nuclear reactors. It is outrageous that the Obama Administration continues to say nuclear power will be part of its "clean energy" strategy and continues to seek $36 Billion MORE in taxpayer loans for new reactor construction. This funding must be stopped, and existing taxpayer subsidies for the nuclear industry withdrawn. How anyone can view the images coming from Japan and continue to claim nuclear power is somehow "clean" is beyond our ability to comprehend.

If ever there was a time for Congress to hear our voice, it is now.

We're asking you--and everyone you know--to act now. More than 40,000 letters have gone in over the past month, but we have never needed a larger public outpouring and more outreach than right now. Please use the handy icons above to post this page on Facebook, Twitter and other networking sites and e-mail it to your lists, your friends, your colleagues.

Please help us spread the word. Your contributions are urgently needed to enable us to do the kind of outreach so desperately needed right now. We need to be on every progressive blog and website in the country right now with ads that encourage people to act; please help with your contribution now or after you take action.

Note to our friends outside the U.S.: like all actions aimed at the U.S. Congress, you must have a U.S. address to participate.