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U.S. States starting to rebel against nuclear industry

The nuclear industry may think it’s on the verge of a revival, but the people of the United States are saying something very different! Beyond Nuclear 27 Feb 2010

In Vermont on Tuesday, the State Senate voted 26-4 to close the Vermont Yankee reactor when its license expires in 2012. That’s a huge victory, but one that will need to be protected over the coming months since no one is foolish enough to believe the Entergy Corporation is just going to slink home. Here is a statement from Citizens Awareness Network on the vote.

Yesterday in West Virginia, a bill to repeal that state’s ban on new nuclear construction was defeated in the state legislature. Although the bill had already passed the Senate’s Energy and Mining Committee, it received only one vote in the Judiciary Committee and is now dead for the year.

And yesterday in Arizona, a bill to classify nuclear power as renewable energy was withdrawn following heavy lobbying from the solar power industry and environmental community.

February 27, 2010 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | politics, USA | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear costs, nuclear secrecy, nuclear spin, nuclear wastes, radiation