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A nuke power bailout must NOT be part of the hundreds of billions of
federal dollars about to pour out of Washington to revive our
Bush-whacked economy.
If the huge Obama stimulus package we all know is coming
includes money to build new reactors, the whole venture could turn to
radioactive dust.
This is the last gasp both for American prosperity and atomic
energy. Nuke promoters are lobbying frantically to get some of that
cash for a dying business in which Wall Street would not invest even
before the last crash.
In 2007 a national grassroots campaign, led in part by Nukefree.org,
helped get a proposed $50 billion loan guarantee boondoggle removed
from the Energy Bill. In 2008 a blank check was on its way just as Wall
Street tanked.
Now, with renewables booming ahead, this may be the last gasp
for a desperate industry. Cut off from Wall Street, hordes of nuke
lobbyists will descend like radioactive locusts on this gargantuan
stimulus package. They must be stopped.
Here are some basic realities:
For these and many more reasons, any stimulus money spent on nuclear
plants would be a major negative to our economy, ecology and public
health.
Recent talk of a "fourth generation" of atomic reactors is pure
pie-in-the-sky speculation. There are no proven nuclear technologies
that can compete with wind, solar, increased efficiencies or other
Solartopian sources.
It is critical that any proposed funding for new reactor construction
that might be slipped into the stimulus package be entirely eliminated.
This massive new investment about to be made in the future of
our economy must not be corrupted to bail out the very worst of the
20th Century's failed technologies.
Renewables and efficiency work. If we fund them now, the payback will be exponential.
Various petitions are circulating from Physicians for Social
Responsibility (PSR.org), the Sustainable Energy Network and others. Or
just call and write the White House, Senate, Congress and local
officials where reactors are proposed and demand a halt to this
suicidal madness.
Let's kill this so-called nuclear revival once and for all, so we can
finally win a world powered by truly green technologies that actually
work.
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A nuke power bailout must NOT be part of the hundreds of billions of
federal dollars about to pour out of Washington to revive our
Bush-whacked economy.
If the huge Obama stimulus package we all know is coming
includes money to build new reactors, the whole venture could turn to
radioactive dust.
This is the last gasp both for American prosperity and atomic
energy. Nuke promoters are lobbying frantically to get some of that
cash for a dying business in which Wall Street would not invest even
before the last crash.
In 2007 a national grassroots campaign, led in part by Nukefree.org,
helped get a proposed $50 billion loan guarantee boondoggle removed
from the Energy Bill. In 2008 a blank check was on its way just as Wall
Street tanked.
Now, with renewables booming ahead, this may be the last gasp
for a desperate industry. Cut off from Wall Street, hordes of nuke
lobbyists will descend like radioactive locusts on this gargantuan
stimulus package. They must be stopped.
Here are some basic realities:
For these and many more reasons, any stimulus money spent on nuclear
plants would be a major negative to our economy, ecology and public
health.
Recent talk of a "fourth generation" of atomic reactors is pure
pie-in-the-sky speculation. There are no proven nuclear technologies
that can compete with wind, solar, increased efficiencies or other
Solartopian sources.
It is critical that any proposed funding for new reactor construction
that might be slipped into the stimulus package be entirely eliminated.
This massive new investment about to be made in the future of
our economy must not be corrupted to bail out the very worst of the
20th Century's failed technologies.
Renewables and efficiency work. If we fund them now, the payback will be exponential.
Various petitions are circulating from Physicians for Social
Responsibility (PSR.org), the Sustainable Energy Network and others. Or
just call and write the White House, Senate, Congress and local
officials where reactors are proposed and demand a halt to this
suicidal madness.
Let's kill this so-called nuclear revival once and for all, so we can
finally win a world powered by truly green technologies that actually
work.
A nuke power bailout must NOT be part of the hundreds of billions of
federal dollars about to pour out of Washington to revive our
Bush-whacked economy.
If the huge Obama stimulus package we all know is coming
includes money to build new reactors, the whole venture could turn to
radioactive dust.
This is the last gasp both for American prosperity and atomic
energy. Nuke promoters are lobbying frantically to get some of that
cash for a dying business in which Wall Street would not invest even
before the last crash.
In 2007 a national grassroots campaign, led in part by Nukefree.org,
helped get a proposed $50 billion loan guarantee boondoggle removed
from the Energy Bill. In 2008 a blank check was on its way just as Wall
Street tanked.
Now, with renewables booming ahead, this may be the last gasp
for a desperate industry. Cut off from Wall Street, hordes of nuke
lobbyists will descend like radioactive locusts on this gargantuan
stimulus package. They must be stopped.
Here are some basic realities:
For these and many more reasons, any stimulus money spent on nuclear
plants would be a major negative to our economy, ecology and public
health.
Recent talk of a "fourth generation" of atomic reactors is pure
pie-in-the-sky speculation. There are no proven nuclear technologies
that can compete with wind, solar, increased efficiencies or other
Solartopian sources.
It is critical that any proposed funding for new reactor construction
that might be slipped into the stimulus package be entirely eliminated.
This massive new investment about to be made in the future of
our economy must not be corrupted to bail out the very worst of the
20th Century's failed technologies.
Renewables and efficiency work. If we fund them now, the payback will be exponential.
Various petitions are circulating from Physicians for Social
Responsibility (PSR.org), the Sustainable Energy Network and others. Or
just call and write the White House, Senate, Congress and local
officials where reactors are proposed and demand a halt to this
suicidal madness.
Let's kill this so-called nuclear revival once and for all, so we can
finally win a world powered by truly green technologies that actually
work.