{"id":791,"date":"2011-03-25T07:25:58","date_gmt":"2011-03-25T07:25:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldteamnow.org\/blog\/?p=791"},"modified":"2011-04-19T04:32:54","modified_gmt":"2011-04-19T04:32:54","slug":"its-time-to-end-reliance-on-nuclear-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldteamnow.org\/blog\/2011\/03\/25\/its-time-to-end-reliance-on-nuclear-power\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s Time to End Reliance on Nuclear Power"},"content":{"rendered":"

World Team Now<\/a>\u00a0board members joined a coalition to give \u00a0President Obama, members of his Administration, and all members of the U.S. Congress\u00a0a letter\u00a0regarding the Fukushima nuclear accident in Japan. \u00a0The letter was\u00a0initiated by the\u00a0Sustainable Energy Network<\/a>\u00a0comprised\u00a0of 146 safe energy advocate organizations and businesses<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Photo courtesy of National Nuclear Security Administration \/ Nevada Site Office<\/p><\/div>\n

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\nJAPANESE NUCLEAR ACCIDENT \u2013\u00a0A TRAGIC REMINDER;<\/span><\/p>\n

IT\u2019S LONG PAST THE TIME TO END RELIANCE ON NUCLEAR POWER<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

March 25, 2011<\/p>\n

President Barack Obama
\n<\/span>The White House
\n<\/span>Washington, DC 20500<\/span><\/p>\n

Dear President Obama:<\/span><\/p>\n

We, the 146 undersigned safe energy advocates, have been speaking out about the risks and dangers posed by nuclear power for years \u2013 for many of us, since before the 1986 Chornobyl* and 1979 Three Mile Island accidents as well as the hundreds of other radioactive releases, unplanned shut-downs, and other mishaps that have continuously plagued both the U.S. and the international nuclear industries since their founding.<\/span><\/p>\n

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While nuclear power\u2019s unacceptable safety, environmental, public health, economic, and national security risks should have been self-evident long before now, the latest unfolding nuclear disaster in Japan once again underscores the following:\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Nuclear plants can never be designed to withstand all potential \u201cacts of God.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Nuclear plants can never be designed to withstand all instances of \u201chuman error.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Nuclear plants can never be designed to withstand all types of \u201cmechanical malfunction.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Nuclear plants can never be designed to withstand all forms of \u201cterrorist attack.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

There is no such thing as \u201csafe\u201d nuclear power.<\/span><\/p>\n

There is no such thing as \u201cclean\u201d nuclear power.<\/span><\/p>\n

There is no such thing as \u201ccheap\u201d nuclear power.<\/span><\/p>\n

Consequently, the Price-Anderson cap on liability in the event of an accident should be repealed, all proposed governmental financial and regulatory incentives for new nuclear plant construction – including loan guarantees, accelerated licensing, and inclusion in a \u201cclean energy standard\u201d – should be rejected, and no new reactors should be built.<\/span><\/p>\n

Existing nuclear reactors should be phased out as rapidly as possible, beginning with the oldest and\/or most unsafe, and no presently-licensed reactors should have their operating lives extended.<\/span><\/p>\n

Safety standards for existing reactors should be substantially tightened while they continue to operate and federal nuclear funding should be redirected to the orderly phase-out of those reactors as well as the safe decommissioning of closed reactors and disposal of radioactive waste.<\/span><\/p>\n

National energy policy and funding should be refocused on greatly improved energy efficiency and the rapid deployment of renewable energy sources which are far cleaner, safer, and cheaper than nuclear power.<\/span><\/p>\n

—————-<\/span><\/p>\n

This letter was signed by World Team Now Board Members; Albert Boulanger,\u00a0Director of Technical Strategy; Walter Andrews \u00a0Director of Energy and the Environment and Suzanne Maxx Founder,President, Exec. Director.<\/span><\/p>\n

To see the press release, the letter with\u00a0signatories<\/span>, and the \u00a0list of \u00a0initial recipients-\u00a0<\/span>click here<\/a>. <\/span>\u00a0A copy of the letter also went to media outlets and these governmental representatives;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

cc. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Steven Chu, Secretary – U.S. Department of Energy<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Ken Salazar, Secretary – U.S. Department of Interior<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Gregory Jaczko, Chairman – U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Kristine Svinicki, Commissioner – U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0George Apostolakis, Commissioner – U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0William Magwood, Commissioner – U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0William Ostendorff, Commissioner – U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Lisa Jackson, Administrator – U.S. Environmental Protection Agency<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Jon Wellinghoff, Chairman – Federal Energy Regulatory Commission<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Philip Moeller, Commissioner – Federal Energy Regulatory Commission<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Marc Spitzer, Commissioner – Federal Energy Regulatory Commission<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0John Norris, Commissioner – Federal Energy Regulatory Commission<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Cheryl LaFleur, Commissioner – Federal Energy Regulatory Commission<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0John Holdren, Director White House Office of Science & Technology<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Nancy Sutley, Chair \u2013 White House Council on Environmental Quality<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Peter B. Lyons, DOE Acting Assistant Secretary for Nuclear Energy<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0*\u00a0Chernobyl\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0is the correct Ukrainian spelling of what many of us know as “Chernobyl,” the Russian spelling. \u00a0Since the nuclear accident site is in Ukraine and the official spelling in that country\u00a0is “Chornobyl,” that is what we opted for here, as it is the most authentic. \u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n


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