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Tell President Obama to cancel the Vogtle Loan Guarantee! We don’t want or need new nuclear reactors and we don’t think that taxpayers should be on the hook to support a mature industry.
Oregon and Washington PSR have commissioned an economic study by noted economist Robert McCullough on the possibility of shutting down the Columbia Generating Station nuclear power plant.
Please read the articles below for more information:
Northwest Physicians Group Hires Economist to Evaluate Hanford Nuclear Plant (Source: The Wall Street Journal)
Studies mull impact of closing nuclear power plant near Richland (Source: Annette Cary, Tri-City Herald)
Nuclear power plant shutdown worth analysis, says doctors group (Source: Suzanne Stevens, Portland Business Journal)
Radioactivity and Human Health
A look at the implications for human health of an accident at a nuclear power reactor, using the 2011 nuclear reactor accident in Fukushima, Japan as a frame of reference. Read more »