(The fight continues. This time for the win! – promoted by eli_beckerman)
Nearly 35 years ago, the Clamshell Alliance organized to oppose the Seabrook NH nuclear power plant. In the wake of Fukushima, these old(er) campaigners are ready to start campaigning again.
Clamshell Alliance:
A Call To Action From Fukushima
Ø Fukushima: Chernobyl in the Pacific Ocean 25 years later.
Ø Nuclear corporation Entergy is poised to violate the will of the people of Vermont and operate the Vermont Yankee reactor (same make, model and age as Fukushima) past the 3/2012 contractual closure date.
Ø Federal NRC granted the VY reactor a 20-year extension just days after the meltdowns in Japan began.
Ø We must begin now to prepare for mass nonviolent action.
We call on Clam activists to meet at the World Fellowship in Conway, NH, July 23, to plan and strategize and organize.
We call on all activists to immediately:
o Connect with other Clams, allies and concerned citizens,o Hold meetings in their local and regional communities,
o Organize nonviolent actions, demonstrations and educational events,
o Send spokes[people] to the July 23 meeting, and
o Communicate their plans by sending them to the links below.
April 26, 25 years to the day after the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster, we call on all Clams to organize local activities such as candlelight vigils on town commons and other nonviolent forms of public education and demonstration from 6-8pm on Tues. 4/26.
Signed by: Arnie Alpert, Jeanine Burns, Diane Clancy, Kristie Conrad, Andy Davis, Judy Elliott, Barry Feldman, Paul Gunter, Jay Gustaferro, Benjie Hiller, Peter Kellman, Cindy Girvani Leerer, George Mokray, Robin Read, Nelia Sargent, Kirk Stone, Brian Tokar, Sharon Tracy, Tom Wyatt.
Links for posting events: info@clamshellalliance.org, http://www.nirs.org/action.htm has a calendar of spring events you can add to.
The July 23 meeting will be on the Sat. of the Clamshell reunion: Friday, July 22 through Sunday, July 24. For rooms, tenting and dining, the World Fellowship can accommodate up to 150 overnight, so reserve soon (www.worldfellowship.org) if you plan to stay over.
http://www.safeandgreencampaig… has information about a 4/26 Brattleboro event and 4/24 feeder walks to VY reactor to meet with a walk from Indian Point led by Japanese nun Jun-San.
This is a link to organizing materials on the Clamshell Alliance website: http://clamshellalliance.org/?…
For information, connection and conversation, join clamshellalliance@yahoo.com, visit the http://www.clamshellalliance.org website and Facebook at http://facebook.com/ClamshellA…
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… weren’t enough of a reason to get off nuclear, it looks like the US dodged a big one with last week’s tornadoes down south. What happens next time, if the generators DON’T go on?
US tornadoes force shutdown of two nuclear reactors in Virginia
SOURCE: The Guardian (UK)
By Ewen MacAskill
A US nuclear power company has disclosed that one of the tornadoes that hit the US at the weekend, killing at least 45 people and causing widespread damage, forced the shutdown of two of its reactors.
The series of tornadoes that began in Oklahoma late last week barrelled across the country, with North Carolina, where 22 people died, the worst-hit state.
The US nuclear safety regulator said on Monday it was monitoring the Surry nuclear power plant in Virginia. Dominion Virginia Power said the two reactors shut down automatically when a tornado cut off power to the plant. A backup diesel generator kicked in to cool the fuel. The regulator said no radiation was released and staff were working to restore electricity to the plant.
The tornadoes were among the worst in the US in the past two decades. Last year, 10 people died in a tornado in Mississippi, while 57 were killed in North and South Carolina in 1984 and 330 across the south in 1974.
Two of the survivors of this year’s storms, Audrey McKoy and her husband Milton, who live near Raleigh, North Carolina, told the Associated Press they had seen the tornado bearing down on them over the tops of pine trees. At a nearby farm, winds were lifting pigs and other animals into the sky. “It looked just like The Wizard of Oz,” McKoy said.
They took shelter in their laundry room. After they emerged, disorientated, they realised that the tornado had turned their mobile home around.
The national weather centre in Raleigh issued detailed descriptions of the tornadoes and their paths of destruction.
One of them, with winds greater than 100mph, destroyed trees, ripped off roofs and wrecked power lines. It hit Shaw University in Raleigh and then strengthened to 110mph. “Snapped trees crashed on to and through numerous homes all along the path. It is in this area where three fatalities were reported when two mobile homes were thrown 30 to 50ft [nine to 15 metres]. Nearly all of the mobile homes in the park sustained some type of damage,” the weather report said.
Thousands of workers from the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the national disaster organisation, are being deployed in North Carolina to assess the damage.
The North Carolina governor, Bev Perdue, interviewed on the NBC Today programme, said the storms had ripped through homes as if they were made of paper.