No Nukes! Nuclear Power Not Clean, Green or Safe

Aug. 31, 2007 - Energy Bill Aids the Expansion Plans of Atomic Power Plants - A one-sentence provision buried in the Senate's recently passed energy bill, inserted without debate at the urging of the nuclear power industry, could make builders of new nuclear plants eligible for tens of billions of dollars in government loan guarantees...
March 30, 2007 - Letter To Louisiana Public Service Commissioners - Re: Entergy's Request to Build a New Nuclear Power Plant in Louisiana. This is pursuant to previous email of March 25, 2007 concerning opposition by Save Our Wetlands Inc.(SOWL) and Save Louisiana Wetlands Inc. on Entergy's outrageous, absurd, reckless, and dangerous proposal to build a new nuclear power plant in Louisiana, and charge consumers in advance of construction...
March 26, 2007 - Report Queries Nuclear Role in Beating Global Warming - The surge in political popularity of nuclear power as a quick-fix, zero-carbon solution to global warming is misguided and potentially highly dangerous, a group of academics and scientists said on Monday...
March 25, 2007 - Letter To Louisiana Public Service Commissioners - Re: Rate-setters Look At Rules For Possible Nuclear Plant. It is with deep regret and horror that I read in March 22, 2007 Times Picayune that Entergy is appearing before you, requesting special economic favors to build another nuclear power plant in Louisiana. I as executive attorney for Save Our Wetlands Inc.(SOWL) am extremely knowledgeable about the lies of the nuclear industry and the Federal government it funds...
March 22, 2007 - Rate-setters Look At Rules For Possible Nuclear Plant - The proposed rules would turn the traditional regulatory process on its head by allowing a utility to earn money on a nuclear plant before it is in operation. The rules would also require the PSC to approve of the need for a nuclear plant before it is built and again at the beginning of each of three phases...
Jan. 8th, 2007 - Nuclear Power Not Clean, Green or Safe - Caldicott points out there are truly green and clean alternative energy sources to nuclear power. She refers to the American plains as “the Saudi Arabia of wind,” where readily available rural land in just several Dakota countires “could produce twice the amount of electricity that the United States currently consumes.”...
January 2004 - History of the Opposition of the New Orleans Community Against the Waterford III Nuclear Power Plant - This is a history of members in the New Orleans community that were against the construction and operation of the Waterford Nuclear Power Plant in Taft, LA., between 1972 and 1984. This power plant is a mere twenty four miles up river from the city of New Orleans...
January 2004 - The Nuclear Phoenix - Having a close working relationship with the nuclear industry well before taking office the Bush administration is pushing ahead with a full-scale revival of atomic power...
Nov. 2, 2003 - The Waterford Nuclear Power Plant, Cracks Found in Coolant Pipes - The discovery of similar cracks and an associated leak at FirstEnergy Corp.’s Davis-Besse plant near Toledo, Ohio in March of 2002 illustrate just how dangerous the situation can become. Water from the coolant system at this plant, which normally circulates through the reactor system at temperatures reaching up to 600 degrees, leaked through a crack and created a football size cavity on the outside of the reaction vessel. The thin stainless steel inner lining of the reactor vessel was all that remained to prevent the reaction vessel from bursting and the core from melting down...
Oct. 28, 2003 - Nuclear Power Isn’t the Way to Go - It effectively highlights why Entergy should reconsider its position on developing nuclear energy, taking into account the huge threat to the pubic due to the risk of nuclear plant disasters and the lack of viable, truly safe disposal method for nuclear waste...
May 21, 2003 - GOP Rebuffs Effort to Kill Some Nukes - The vote was 51-43, largely along party lines, in favor of a GOP proposal to lift a decade-old ban on research or other activities to develop the new battlefield weapons...
Interview with Ross Vincent of the Louisiana Ecology Center - These interviews occurred in 1984 during the time that SOWL, Oyster Shell Alliance and Citizens for Safe Energy (spearheaded by Gary Groesch, ex-director of the Alliance for Affordable Energy) intervened before the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission in Louisiana Power & Light Companies request for an operation permit for their Waterford III nuclear power plant...
April 9, 1982 - A Letter from Armand R. Howard District Commander, Federal Protective Services; re: NOPD and Corporate Police Surviellance - In reference to your letter of March 24, 1982 expressing your concern about intelligence gathering from the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals Building, let me assure you the staff nor Chief Judge Charles Clark knew the details of security measures to be taken for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission Hearing...
July 4, 1977 - Waterford Nuclear Power Plant New Orleans, LA Fact Sheet - Radioactive substances decay by giving off particles or rays which travel at enormous speeds. When this radiation passes through living tissue, it rips eletrons away from the stable atoms of the cell, leaving unstable, positively charged ions. These ions quickly undergo violent chemical reactions with surrounding molecules as they return to a neutral state. The result is massive non-specific disorganization and injury to cells and tissues...
After the Shock Wave Passes...Comes Leukemia - After the shock wave passed, the men were ordered to march up to within half a mile of the bombsite, and remained there for about five hours. Now, some 25 years later, an unusually high percentage of those men are afflicted with diseases - including cancer - that are associated with excessive exposure to radiation...

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