“No nukes now. No nukes probably forever,” says environmental activist Kevin Moore.
Moore, in the late 1980s, went to jail as a protester seeking to block the licensing of nuclear power plants.
He’s remained active since. And, like many no-nuke demonstrators who committed to the cause in the late 1970s and 1980s, he’s baffled by the current campaign to build new plants.
“Did I miss something?” the 72-year-old activist asked. “Did they figure out what to do with the waste?”
The answer is no.
Yet, the Wisconsin Assembly has passed AB 384, which would remove a barrier to building new nuclear plants enacted in 1983, four years after a meltdown at the Three Mile Island plant in Pennsylvania and three years before the explosion and fire at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine. Current state law prohibits new plants until the construction of a federal storage facility for nuclear waste....
...moreKen Notes: I do not know what to say.... We don`t like solar or wind even though they are now affordable and efficient but nuclear is now a good idea????
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