So sad that greed manages to trump respect for our environment every time.
I'm sure the nuclear power lobby is pushing so hard because it knows we're so close to not needing it.
Once we have it we're in their clutches for another 50 years.

Say it Ain't So!!!!

Jeffrey Merrifield?!?!
A CLINTON Administration Appointee..?!?!

http://www.nrc.gov/about-nrc/organization/commission/former-commissioners/merrifield.html

drug and vodka testing should have been done at chernobyl.
Dr.Q

Thanks for the link to the article from The Baltimore Sun, quite unusual, it seems, in today's world of corporate controlled media.

Accidents, of whatever kind, in a nuclear facility is not something we can dismiss lightly, and they will occur again as they have in the past. I wish all of us, good luck!

The nuclear industry needed this, lifting some restrictions off the heaps that nuclear plants need to get through actually helps the environment. Do you want 10 train cars of ash a day from every 1000MW coal plant, or one truckload of nuclear waste per year?
And on the topic of accidents, what’s scarier: solid nuclear waste being contained in an nearly indestructible container, or heavy metals slowly seeping into our water table?

Nuclear energy is the most environmental friendly and promising energy source for the future.

This is just another reason to reduce the power of industry by working toward public financing of campaigns.

It is my hope that Mother Jones will help in a very aggressive manner urge our legislators and educate our grass roots that this is crucial. We are at a juncture where average people are finding it difficult to be certain of effective representation due to the dependency of our legislators on contributions generously provided by those special interests.

This is just another reason to reduce the power of industry by working toward public financing of campaigns.

It is my hope that Mother Jones will help in a very aggressive manner urge our legislators and educate our grass roots that this is crucial. We are at a juncture where average people are finding it difficult to be certain of effective representation due to the dependency of our legislators on contributions generously provided by those special interests.

I hope MJ will educate her readers to all the green-hype produced by nuclear industry and its advocates.

A nuclear power accident causes death and slow death by cancer. Coal, gas or oil are also destructive to health and environment. Research into energy sources has hardly tapped into what is possible with sun, wind, water etc.

Effects of Chernobyl are still being felt in the Ukraine - although the media doesn't like to report it. I know I lived there. A Chernobyl can also occur in the US - can anyone absolutely guarantee it won't occur? No, just I cannot say for sure it will occur. So, why gamble with the future?

The Luddites Were Right!!

Restore Sanity to the World!!

SMASH The Machines!!

ALL The Machines, starting with all these stupid computers hooked up to the internet!

Wow! General Ludd, a bit extreme? Which era of the past is most appealing to you, that of the Neanderthals? Even the Austrolopithecines used tools.

The Age of the Army of Redressers.

Read up on them.
You'll probably want to enlist.