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Please sign onto our letter to the White House, calling for the prompt release of health-protective coal ash disposal standards.
You might be. One-third of Americans live within 50 miles of a nuclear reactor. Check out our new mapping tool to see if you fall within an evacuation zone and are at risk.
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) mandates that nuclear operators have plans for a 10-mile radius in the event of an accident. However, in the ongoing Fukushima nuclear crisis, the NRC recommended a 50-mile evacuation zone for Americans. Should an accident of the same scale occur in the United States, we have no plans to orderly, quickly, and safely evacuate people within 50 miles of a reactor.
This new PSR tool can show you both 10-mile and 50-mile evacuation zones as well as the number of individuals that would have to be evacuated, based on current population data. Imagine evacuating 17 million people from New York City in the event of an accident at Indian Point. Imagine the economic impact of individuals never being able to return because of long-lived radioactive contamination.
People are living closer and closer to reactors than they did when the reactors were first constructed. In the event of a Fukushima-type accident, people could be permanently displaced from their homes and lose their property and possessions.
We are clearly not prepared for an accident on the scale that we witnessed at Chernobyl nor the scale that we are currently witnessing at Fukushima.
Tell President Obama to abolish the Nuclear Loan Guarantee Program.
Tell President Obama and Congress: No more subsidies for the dangerous and polluting nuclear industry.
(December 2011). A factsheet detailing the various delays, cost overruns, credit downgrades and design problems since January 2008 facing the supposed ‘nuclear renaissance.’ Read more »
Interview with Marco Kaltofen, PE, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, about his research studying airborne radioactive particles from Fukushima and the Hanford Nuclear Reservation. Read more »
PSR Main Points on Blue Ribbon Commission Draft Report
In 2010, after ending the failed Yucca Mountain project, President Obama convened a commission to make recommendations for managing US high-level radioactive waste and spent fuel. The following points are an overview of PSR's position on their conclusions. Read more »
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