(With more bad news coming out of Fukushima, it’s time we all start to better understand this fire we’re playing with.   – promoted by eli_beckerman)

What is a nuclear meltdown? Here’s a useful and easy to understand tutorial by Rachel Maddow: http://t.co/CRkDbku

See also her earlier broadcast on how boiling water reactors work: http://www.archive.org/details…

Vermont Yankee — in Southern VT, just north of the MA border along the CT river http://ow.ly/4ilpn —  uses same 1970’s GE Mark I design as Fukushima Daichi reactor #1, the first of several reactors to suffer from partial meltdowns and explosions. http://nirs.org/reactorwatch/a…

The backup cooling design is flawed and unreliable, and has been know to be such for 40 years. http://www.nirs.org/factsheets…

Now of course, we have the terrible proof from Japan. It doesn’t take an earthquake to trigger a reactor shutdown, nor a tsunami to cause the backup cooling system to fail. What will it take to shut down plants like these for good?  

There’s a limit to how responsive our representatives in Congress can be expected to be on this issue unless they are challenged electorally, but here is a quick way to send letters to them in the meantime (while you are waiting to collect enough signatures for your campaign!):

http://org2.democracyinaction….

Finally, here is where you can find more information on public forums and events regarding Vermont Yankee:

http://www.safeandgreencampaig…

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