[NukeNet] Join Nuclear Power Pushback Campaign--LTE for you to sendin

[Frieda Berryhill]

I have always maintained that an aggressive use of "letters to the editor"
is the best way to get the news out. AND ITS FREE. I have been doing it for
35 years...and if your "quota" is used up solicit other of like mind. The
Industry is busy in ever corner and every local paper, don't let them get
away with it 

 

Published Wilmington News Journal - 7/28/08

 


Letter to the Editor:


The "Delaware Voice"   by Jim Trost on July 23 considers the problem with
nuclear waste a political, rather then a technical problem in spite of the
fact that the difficulties with Yucca Mountain, the proposed site for
burying nuclear waste has  troubled every administration since the passage
of the Nuclear Waste Policy Act in 1982 , more than 25 years ago.


9 Billion Dollars have been invested in the project so far and on July 15
the US Energy Department projected the eventual cost of this project to be
90 Billion Dollars .  


Considering that the year of completion is now projected to be 2020 the real
cost of this repository  is hard to calculate.  In the meantime high level
nuclear waste is piling up at 104 sites throughout the country.


High level nuclear  waste is lethal literally for ever. ( half-life of
plutonium is 24.000 years. ) The Hierarchy of guardians will have to be paid
on and on by future generation.


Other  subsidies such a fuel and insurance through the Price Anderson Act
in case of an accident, defy explanation in free market economy. It is
ironic that the federal Government, and particularly this administration is
able to overcome its economic principles when it come to nuclear power.


Nuclear Power is neither clean, cheap or  safe.


Frieda Berryhill


2610 Grendon Dr.


Wilmington, DE


Tel# 302 994 1342 


E mail frieda302 at comcast.net 


 

 

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[mailto:nukenet-bounces at energyjustice.net] On Behalf Of Michael Mariotte
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Subject: [NukeNet] Join Nuclear Power Pushback Campaign--LTE for you to
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Nuclear Information and Resource Service

6930 Carroll Avenue, #340, Takoma Park, MD 20912

301-270-6477; nirsnet at nirs.org; www.nirs.org <http://www.nirs.org/> 

 

July 29, 2008

 

Dear Friends:

 

We're launching a new Nuclear Power Pushback Campaign to counter the
pro-nuclear, dirty energy propaganda that is so prevalent in the media these
days. But we can't do it alone, we don't have money for big ads nor
unlimited staff to monitor every broadcast, newspaper and blog. As always,
your participation will make the difference.

 

Over the next few months, we'll be submitting letters to the editor to
numerous publications, helping you write letters to go under your name,
writing op-eds and sample op-eds for you to submit, posting on blogs,
putting up new YouTube videos, contacting reporters directly, and a lot
more.

 

Below is a sample letter we hope you'll submit to your local newspaper,
blog, magazine or any other outlet you think is appropriate. Please use your
name, and feel free to change it however you like. John McCain is continuing
to talk up new nuclear power and dirty energy (most recently yesterday in
Bakersfield, Calif.), and he thinks that's a winning stand. We need to push
back against that type of dangerous energy thinking and remind the public
that nuclear power is a failed energy technology that doesn't deserve
resurrection.

 

We hope you'll take this action, and will also let us know when you see an
article in your local media that deserves a reply. While we hope you will
often reply to such articles on your own, perhaps using information gathered
from NIRS website, we'll try to help you craft a reply as often as possible.

 

One resource you might want to use is False Promises, NIRS recent book
countering nuclear industry propaganda on safety, economics, sustainable
energy, radiation and health, and more. You can download it for free on NIRS
website (www.nirs.org <http://www.nirs.org/> ) or you can buy a printed copy
for $15 (including postage and handling). If you want bulk copies, contact
us.

 

Thanks for all you do! No Nukes!

 

Michael Mariotte

Executive Director

 

Sample Letter to the Editor

 

Dear Editor,

 

Senator John McCain is calling for an energy policy right out of an industry
textbook from the 1970s: more offshore oil drilling and more nuclear power.
Offshore oil drilling, while posing a clear threat to our beaches and
coastlines, wouldn't produce any oil for 20 years, would be the proverbial
drop-in-the-bucket given rising world oil demand, and would do nothing to
help us meet current high prices at the gas pump. A more far-reaching oil
policy would be to accelerate and strengthen new vehicle mileage standards.
Since burning oil is a chief cause of the climate crisis, this would be a
two-fer: less demand means we'd be paying less at the pump and also spewing
less carbon into our atmosphere.

 

Because of nuclear's skyrocketing costs, by the time any new atomic reactors
could be built, solar power will be cheaper than nuclear. Wind power already
is cheaper-and is the fastest growing energy source in the world. Combine
those with geothermal, energy efficiency technologies, smart electrical
grids and distributed generation-none of which produce radioactive waste or
offer the threat of atomic meltdown or terrorist attack--and you get a 21st
century energy policy that will provide us with safer, cleaner and cheaper
electricity, without carbon emissions, than nuclear power.

 

Going back to the 1970s might be a nostalgia trip for some. As an energy
policy, the days of disco, polyester, oil spills and nuclear accidents
should be left behind for good.

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