Get your "No more nukes" on
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That’s right, break out the picket signs -- your favorite apocalypse is on the reprise. Irvine Rep. Assemblyman Chuck DeVore has introduced legislation to repeal the 31-year ban on new nuclear power plants and launched a ballot initiative. On Sept. 12, the state’s Republican party unanimously voted to support the bill for more nuclear power, which is being touted as safe, clean, reliable, and affordable -- all adjectives the industry has yet to merit.
It's also being called “emissions-free,” a handy moniker for a power source in our globally-warmed future. It's being promoted by pro-clearcutting, pro-GMO "environmentalists" that happen to pull paychecks from the nuclear industry.
Pro-nukes fans are now gathering the 433,000 signatures needed to put the bill on California's June 2008 ballot.
A 1976 California state law banned new nuclear plants until a permanent storage facility for the radioactive waste was established. Meanwhile, said permanent facility – Nevada’s Yucca Mt. -- suffered another setback on Sept. 4 when a federal judge ruled the state could suspend water permits for drilling at the site – further delaying a project that is already seven years overdue.
Spent-fuel nuclear waste is currently stored on the sites of nuclear power plants – which has raised concerns about safety from terrorist attacks. CA Attorney General Jerry Brown recently filed a petition with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, arguing that its waste confidence ruling is inadequate – meaning, we don’t have much faith in your determination that the pools of water where used up nuclear fuel rods bob like swimming pool toys are safe.
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And guess what, you can start this 7:30 PM at the Herbst Theater in SF where Stewart Brand is holding an a pron-nuclear event to kick off the SF wing of Nukes R Us, with a woman who's gonna tell you that only a few firemen died at Chernobyl.
Posted by AA Guy | September 13, 2007 12:54 AM
Here are the details on that event with a nuclear "switcher," as they're calling themselves.
"Power to Save the World," Gwyneth Cravens with Rip Anderson, Herbst Theater, San Francisco, 7pm, Friday, September 17. The lecture starts promptly at 7:30pm. Admission is free (a $10 donation is always welcome, not required). One questioner for the speakers will be Richard Rhodes (author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb and a future SALT speaker.) Abundant time will be left for questions, since there are plenty on this subject.
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September 13, 2007 02:05 PM
hey y'all
I came all the way from South Dakota to help...If an uneducated Hunkpapa can see that something is very wrong with the system, then you educated, more progressive Californians should be able to see the same.
My purpose is the same here as it is in east coast with NIRS, Beyond Nuclear, Greenpeace, Public Citizen, and Earthworks...if we stop the uranium mining on Indian land, we stop the whole nuclear renaissance!!!
Posted by igmuska | September 18, 2007 08:24 AM
Hey, Igmuska... you forgot to mention the most important and vulnerable old nuke of'em all... Indian Point... and it's newly formed coalition... FUSE USA! California anti-nukers must also understand, that there cannot be a nuclear renaissance unless the NRC rubber stamps ALL the old reactors, crumbling, rusting, falling apart like Vermont Yankee!
Posted by Remy Chevalier | September 18, 2007 09:25 AM
Yeah I know, Remy, I knew you'd post it...we have to wake up this lumbering west coast giant to the truth of the nuclear renaissance...the nuclear industry doesn't give a hoot-in-nanny about human health, nuclear waste, and the environment, they just want to build them for the money, they don't even care if the plant goes on-line!!!
CLOSE INDIAN POINT...California style
WAKE UP CALIFORNIA
Posted by igmuska | September 18, 2007 09:54 AM
NO MORE NUKES!!!!!
We taxpaying citizens want a healthy California!!!
Indian land belongs to the Indian people!
Respect the U.N.Declaration!!!!!!
Posted by *t* | September 18, 2007 11:06 AM