Join the Beyond Nuclear I Have A Scream Rally at Energy Department!
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Does the continued promotion of nuclear power by the Obama administration – even after Fukushima – make you want to scream? If so, you are not alone. Join like-minded activists at the Beyond Nuclear I Have A Scream rally on Hallowe’en at 12 noon, October 31 outside DOE headquarters (see flyer for details).
On October 31, an aptly chosen date, the US Energy Department’s Blue Ribbon Commission on America’s Nuclear Future will finally close its supposedly open doors to any further public comment on its mandate to “solve” this country’s radioactive waste problem. Using millions of our taxpayer dollars, and after junkets to France and Finland, the commission has come up with nothing new at all! To wit: it recommends that a new search should be made for a geologic repository; reactor waste should be transported to centralized interim storage sites; and that research, development, and demonstration dollars from taxpayers should continue to be wasted on reprocessing.
The Commission has ignored our years of advocacy for, at the very least, emptying the pools and hardening the radioactive waste storage casks at the reactor sites while a better – and still elusive – alternative continues to be sought. And of course, it ignores the most fundamental Step One: to stop making any more of it!
Please download and distribute our flyer. Tell your colleagues and friends. Wear a costume, make a sign, and be there at noon on Hallowe’en!
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North Anna reactor at epicenter is on known fault line
The powerful August 23 earthquake whose epicenter was just a few miles from the North Anna nuclear power plant caused the two reactors there to shut down and resort to back-up diesel power. But the jolt should not have come as a surprise. In 1975, the then North Anna owners were fined $60,000 for building the plant on a known earthquake fault line while denying the existence of the fault. Despite this, (even the Nuclear Regulatory Commission had ranked North Anna the 7th most likely nuclear plant to be at risk of an earthquake), the facility had removed its seismographic sensors in the 1990s due to budget cuts. Current owners Dominion still expect to build a third reactor on the site. Twelve other nuclear plant sites (a total of 19 reactors) also reported "unusual events" during the quake although none lost power. At press time, Hurricane Irene was bearing down on the east coast again threatening nuclear reactors. See the Beyond Nuclear press statement and our website for more information.
Please consider making a donation to Beyond Nuclear today. Your support will help us build a grassroots movement to close dangerous nuclear plants and create a safe energy future for our children.
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Thank you for working with us for a nuclear-free world.
The Beyond Nuclear Team
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