Beyond Nuclear aims to educate
and activate the public about the connections between nuclear
power and nuclear weapons and the need to abandon both to
safeguard our future. Beyond Nuclear advocates for an energy
future that is sustainable, benign and democratic.
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Act Now to Stop Latest Nuke Industry Subsidy Scam: Help Block $166 Billion Atomic Money Grab! .jpg) Exploiting public concern over high gasoline prices, the nuclear power industry and its friends in Congress are attempting to attach massive taxpayer subsidies for new reactors and radioactive waste reprocessing onto offshore oil drilling bills set to be voted on as early as next week!
Read Beyond Nuclear's Sept. 4, 2008 action alert here. Read Physicians for Social Responsibility's Aug. 2008 analysis of the bills here. Nuclear Plant Company in Idaho Facing Bankruptcy
A mandatory audit of Alternate Energy Holdings (AEHI), Inc., the company hoping to build more nuclear power in Idaho, shows that the company has suffered losses of 3.4 million dollars, leaving it in danger of bankruptcy. Despite its financial woes, the company still plans to forge ahead on the reactor. AEHI is publicly traded and started the building process last year, but has since only filed a Letter of Intent with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. The NRC says the process should be further along. AEHI is planning on receiving funding from a Texas-based company to fund the project, although this company was not named. A spokesperson for Snake River Alliance, a group opposing the plant, says AEHI has little progress to show since it moved from Virginia to Idaho a year ago. Click here for more information. Ten Reasons to say No to Nuclear. Read and print our handy tip sheet on why nuclear power cannot address climate change, plus our 10 brighter ideas, here. Every U.S. nuclear reactor releases radioactivity into the air and water during routine operation. But virtually every U.S. reactor has been leaking radioactivity into the surface and ground water and even beyond the reactor boundaries. In some cases, the reactor owners never told the public about the leaks. When the leaks were made public, the utilities downplayed their potential for harm. Yet scientists agree there is no “safe” level for exposure to radiation and chronic exposure can even increase health risks, especially to children (including in-utero) and to pregnant women. Our petition demands that utilities identify all off-site pathways of radioactive water from reactors; that the public be immediately informed about all radioactive leaks from nuclear reactors; and that more protective and precautionary radiation standards be developed, implemented and enforced. Sign our petition today! We will submit it to the U.S. Congress. And please download and copy our blank petition page to use in your communities and with your city and state officials. Please act today to make communities safer tomorrow. Sign our petition |
