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ACTION CENTER | STOP NUCLEAR LOAN GUARANTEES
Tell President Obama: "PUT THE BRAKES ON NUCLEAR POWER ~ Stop nuclear loan guarantees"
This is an ongoing action which Nuclear Watch South has updated in response to the radiological emergency in Japan.
BACKGROUND The devastating natural disasters and horrific nuclear emergency unfolding in Japan underscore the fact that nuclear power is not an acceptable energy source. Even before the Japanese tragedy the so-called "nuclear renaissance" was melting down before our eyes as 19 of 27 announced new nuclear reactors are cancelled or tabled in favor of efficiency and alternatives. A few utilities still have designs on the promised tax-funded bailouts for new nuclear reactors. With the 2012 budget, President Obama and Secretary of Energy Steven Chu propose to increase tax giveaways for new reactors to $36 BILLION. In response to the nuclear crisis in Japan, Senator Joe Lieberman has called for a moratorium on new reactors until we can absorb what has gone so terribly wrong with nuclear power.
Southern Co.'s Vogtle reactors in Georgia are first in line for the tax-funded loan guarantees which they have secured by forcing rate hikes on Georgia electric customers and through the high-finance wrangling of a Federal Reserve Bank officer who served as Southern Co. CEO for eight years of lobbying for weaker regulations and closed door dealing with state and federal legislators. Besides the obvious corporate welfare involved with bailing out the privately owned electricity giant, the reactors proposed are the ill-fated Westinghouse AP1000 design, just sent back to the drawing board for at least one year for serious safety concerns by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission over its flimsy design for the shield building. The horrifying experience unfolding in Japan underscores the importance of nuclear safety and infallible containment systems which are beyond the limits of human capability. NOW IS OUR TIME to press the point that we do not want nuclear power ...
We want green energy for jobs and climate action NOW.
Please read and edit the message below, and send to President Obama TODAY.
Your message will be sent straight to the President with copies to Secretary of Energy Chu, and Jonathan Silver and David Frantz from the Department of Energy's loan guarantee office.
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