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Final Push Towards Victory! Your Voice Needed Now! Take action!
Make a difference in the challenge to confront global warming and prevent nuclear war and the development and use of nuclear weapons.
The future of the disarmament agenda is on the line now as New START ratification moves forward in the US Senate.
Putting another $25 billion into costly, economically risky and polluting new reactors will be at the expense of solving climate change with clean, renewable energy and efficiency. Call or email your Representatives today and tell them that these subsidies are unacceptable.
Even as the consequences of lax regulation and lax oversight are washing oil onto the Gulf coast, proposed climate legislation in the Senate would cut regulatory corners in licensing new nuclear reactors.
Contact your federal legislators and urge them to oppose increasing nuclear loan guarantees.
Please contact Energy Secretary Stephen Chu and the managers of the Title XVII Loan Guarantee program to tell them that issuing conditional loan guarantees would risk billions of taxpayer funds on unlicensed and uneconomical new reactors.
Tell your Senators to take action to prevent nuclear subsidies in the Senate climate bill. A climate bill with nuclear subsidies would not be a climate bill at all; we need the fastest, cleanest, safest and cheapest means of reducing carbon emissions, and nuclear power does not fit the bill.
Please contact your Senators today and tell them that reprocessing is not a solution for spent fuel and does not belong in a climate bill.
Please contact President Obama today and tell him no more subsidies for the nuclear industry. It is essential that we address climate change by pursuing the fastest, cheapest, and cleanest alternatives first. Nuclear power does not meet these criteria. A bill with more giveaways for the nuclear industry is no solution to climate change.
Putting another $25 billion into costly, economically risky and polluting new reactors will be at the expense of solving climate change with clean, renewable energy and efficiency. Call or email your Representatives today and tell them that these subsidies are unacceptable.
Even as the consequences of lax regulation and lax oversight are washing oil onto the Gulf coast, proposed climate legislation in the Senate would cut regulatory corners in licensing new nuclear reactors.
The nuclear industry seeks to revitalize itself by manipulating the public’s concerns about global warming and energy insecurity to promote nuclear power as a clean and safe way to curb emissions of greenhouse gases and reduce dependence on foreign energy resources. Read more »
A government-sponsored study of childhood cancer in the proximity of German nuclear power plants (German acronym KiKK) found that children < 5 years living < 5 km from plant exhaust stacks had twice the risk for contracting leukemia as those residing > 5 km. Read more »
A fact sheet on the current subsidies and incentives for new nuclear reactors. Read more »