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Nuclear free New England - a handbook and guide... (1998)
| Author | NIRS |
| Date | August 1998 |
| Classification | 3.01.8.10/04 (UNITED STATES - SITES - NORTH EAST OTHER) |
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From the publication:
The Nuclear Free New England Campaign-Introduction The Nuclear Free New England Campaign is a grassroots-driven effort to end our region's reliance on nuclear power as quickly as possible. In the following pages, you'll learn about the problems associated with New England's nuclear reactors: these problems run the gamut from severe safety deficiencies to the production of electricity too expensive to use: from a lack of scientifically-defensible radioactive waste storage plans to the virtual abandonment of safe, clean, sustainable energy sources. Worldwide, nuclear power has taken a deserved nosedive since the 1986 Chernobyl accident-the world's worst industrial disaster. At least 3.100 people already have died as a result of that accident-and thousands more are ill-and many estimates put the numbers ten times and more higher. That single event has cost an estimated $300 Billion, and has made large parts of Ukraine and Belarus-parts once considered a "breadbasket" and the size of Switzerland-permanently uninhabitable and unfarmable. No new nuclear plants are being built anywhere in the industrial West- not in the U.S., not in Canada, not in Western Europe, not even in heavily nuclear France. Instead, across the western world-led by the U.S., older reactors are closing and even newer, but expensive atomic plants are threatened with shutdown.
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