Nuclear Power

In June of 2012, Oregon PSR and Washington PSR formed an official joint Nuclear Power Task Force to coordinate efforts around regional nuclear power issues. Chuck Johnson, a long-time nuclear power activist, was hired to head up the task force. Current goals for the task force include closing the Columbia Generating Station, the Northwest's only remaining nuclear power plant, and to block construction of new nuclear power plants in our region. Please check out the articles below to learn more about this work. For more information or to get involved in this work, please contact Chuck Johnson at 503-777-2794.

Oregon and Washington PSR Join Forces to Shut NW Nuke Plant (PDF of an article by Chuck Johnson in the Summer 2012 issue ofThe Folded Crane)

Columbia Generating Station: Why relicense a nuclear power plant 10 years early? (Commentary by John Pearson, MD in The Oregonian)

Shut down the Northwest's only nuclear power plant (Commentary by John Howieson, MD in The Oregonian)

Chuck Johnson on the problems of the Columbia Generating Station (Populist Dialogues video with Chuck Johnson)

Small Modular Reactors: No Solution for the Cost, Safety, and Waste Problems of Nuclear Power (PDF of a fact sheet from National PSR)

Small Modular Reactors: Safety and Security Concerns (a slideshow presentation by Edwin Lyman, Senior Scientist at Union of Concerned Scientists)

Nuclear Power Proposed for Nuclear Clean-up at Hanford: The Irony is Unmistakable (blog posting from Columbia Riverkeeper)

International Physicians' Recommendations for Protecting Health After the Fukushima Disaster (PDF from International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, or IPPNW)

Waste Land: Native American Leaders Speak Out Against Proposals to Store Radioactive Waste on Tribal Lands (video produced and directed by Bob Saar for The Nuclear Free Indian Lands Project)

Costs and Consequences of the Fukushima Daiichi Disaster (an article by Steven Starr, PSR National)

Does DOE's Funding Announcement Mark the End of its Irrational Exuberance for SMRs? (an article by Ed Lyman, Union of Concerned Scientists)

It's Not Just Alternative Energy Versus Fossil Fuels or Nuclear - Energy Has to Become Decentralized (an article from Washington's Blog)

"New" Nuclear Reactors: Same Old Story (a fact sheet from the Nuclear Information and Resource Service)