People's Alliance For Clean Energy

Picture yourself as a control room operator at a nuclear plant like Oyster Creek in Lacey during a severe accident and being faced with a decision as difficult as that in “Sophie’s Choice,” when the mother had to choose which of her two children to save from the concentration camps.
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November 13, 2012

During the summer, a federal court threw out the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s “waste confidence” rule. That rule states that the NRC has confidence that radioactive waste can be stored safely essentially forever. But the court said that the lack of progress toward a permanent waste storage site and the NRC’s own lack of assessment of the environmental impacts of long-term onsite storage add up to a complete lack of waste confidence.

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Renewable energy sources are booming in Germany, and electric utilities exported more power in 2012 than ever before. But energy experts warn that what sounds like progress has its downsides.

Germany began turning off its nuclear power plants 18 months ago, following the Fukushima disaster in Japan. Since then, many in the business and industrial communities and the general public have feared that the country would soon be facing energy shortages and even blackouts due to a lack of electricity.

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Thursday, October 25, 2012 at 5:30pm
Senior Center

Would the job opportunities and tax revenue in the state of Virginia
be worth the risks associated with uranium mining and milling in
Virginia? Take a closer look at a forum later this month.
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As you may know, BREDL is hosting mining engineer, Val Green, for a
workshop on the evening of September 13 from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Olde
Dominion Agricultural Foundation in Chatham.

The workshop will be titled, “Local and Site-Specific Factors: mining
and milling uranium at Coles Hill”.

Val has asked me to contact mining opponents to find out what
questions you would like answered in the workshop.
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Two leading conservative political organizations say they are stepping up coordinated efforts to repeal state-level renewable energy targets.

The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) — a “stealth business lobbyist” that works with corporate interests to help them write and implement “model” legislation — says it may soon start crafting laws designed to kill or weaken state targets for renewable electricity, heating and fuels.
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March 30, 2012

This is big. The $8.3 Billion taxpayer loan for construction of two new reactors at the Vogtle site in Georgia, the centerpiece of the Obama Administration’s support for the “nuclear renaissance,” may be blocked–by the Obama Administration. You can help make this happen.

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While traveling in Japan several weeks ago, Fairewinds’ Arnie Gundersen took soil samples in Tokyo public parks, playgrounds, and rooftop gardens. All the samples would be considered nuclear waste if found here in the US. This level of contamination is currently being discovered throughout Japan. At the US NRC Regulatory Information Conference in Washington, DC March 13 to March 15, the NRC’s Chairman, Dr. Gregory Jaczko emphasized his concern that the NRC and the nuclear industry presently do not consider the costs of mass evacuations and radioactive contamination in their cost benefit analysis used to license nuclear power plants. Furthermore, Fairewinds believes that evacuation costs near a US nuclear plant could easily exceed one trillion dollars and contaminated land would be uninhabitable for generations.
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A 93-year-old anti-nuclear activist was among scores of protesters arrested at the corporate headquarters of the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant Thursday, the first day of the plant’s operation after the expiration of its 40-year license.
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March 27, 2012

On March 19, 2012, the Indian government gave approval for operation of two Russian-designed nuclear reactors at Kudankulam in southern India. These dangerous reactors have been under construction since 1988 and are obsolete before they even start up. Three million people live within 30 kilometers (18) miles of these reactors, some less than a half-mile away.

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