Diane D'Arrigo, NIRS Radioactive Waste Project Director, talks about the mounting risks from radioactive waste and the many reasons that the claim that a new generation of nuclear power plants is a necessary response to global climate change is a dangerous fallacy. She summarizes the findings in a NIRS report she recently co-authored with Mary Olson, OUT OF CONTROL...ON PURPOSE: DOE's Dispersal of Radioactive Waste Into Landfills and Consumer Products.
Musicians Act to Stop New Atomic Reactors
Bonnie Raitt, Jackson Browne, Graham Nash, Keb Mo, and Ben Harper have re-made the classic song For What It’s Worth into an anti-nuclear anthem. Watch the video of the performance, and go to www.nukefree.org to sign the petition to stop $50 billion in taxpayer loan guarantees for new atomic reactors! Do it today!
Mary Olson, NIRS Southeast Director
On October 23, Nukefree.org joined with three key U.S. Representatives and speakers from the core of the environmental movement to denounce an attempt to guarantee some $50 billion for building new nuclear power plants. Spearheaded by musicians Bonnie Raitt, Jackson Browne and Graham Nash, the group delivered some 120,000 signatures to Congress asking that there be no government funding for new atomic reactors.
Michael Mariotte, NIRS Executive Director, talks about the many reasons that the claim - made by such pundits as James Lovelock and Stewart Brand - that a crash buildout of a new generation of nuclear power plants is a rational and necessary response to global climate change is a dangerous fallacy. He ticks off the list of counter-arguements - including waste storage, cost overruns, terrorism and nuclear weapons proliferation - and builds the cast for using our dwindling resources to develop renewable energy sources, rather than squander them on a 'nuclear power renaissance' which is doomed to fail.
