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Nobel prize-winner rejects nuclear hype

Question and answer with Jody Williams
Burlington Free Press
Interviewe By Tim Johnson • Free Press Staff Writer • August 9, 2009
Jody Williams, 58, a native of Brattleboro and a graduate of the University of Vermont, won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1997 for her work with the International Campaign to Ban Landmines. In 2006, with five other peace-prize laureates, she co-founded the Nobel Women’s Initiative, in support of women’s organizations worldwide working for peace, justice and equality.

Tim Johnson: What are your thoughts on nuclear energy as a power source?
Jody Williams: I am not pro nuclear energy. I think looking backward in time for a response to today’s problems is ridiculous. I really take offense at the lies that it’s clean, sustainable, etc. Mining uranium is not clean. Building the plant is not clean. Decommissioning the reactors is most definitely not clean, and where … do you put the radioactivity, which can last for hundreds of thousands of years? So, putting it forth as a clean alternative is (b.s.), and I hate being lied to, quite honestly………….

Without taxpayer money, it wouldn’t exist at all. Private investors don’t invest in it, as with most everything that’s full of crap. Look, I’d rather have my billions of dollars going to finding really clean, sustainable energy, not looking back to nukes. I’m really terrified about where you’re going to put all the crap. Last I checked … there’s no place in the United States that nationally will accept nuclear waste now.

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August 10, 2009 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | 1