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Call to USA citizens to push for safety in nuclear industry

ActNow! Don’t React Later!ActNow! is a new campaign of Beyond Nuclear designed to avert an atomic catastrophe similar – or possibly even worse – than the oil disaster unfolding in the Gulf of Mexico.

Just like the U.S. Minerals Management Service that failed to oversee Big Oil, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission allows the nuclear industry to cut safety margins. Lax oil industry oversight is destroying the Gulf. Lax nuclear industry oversight could cost countless lives today, threaten human health for generations, and leave vast areas of our country uninhabitable indefinitely.

That’s exactly the outcome we work every day at Beyond Nuclear to prevent. And that’s why we’ve created our new ActNow! campaign.

Please join ActNow! today. Call the White House (202-456-1111) and Congress (202-224-3121) and ask them to:

Block all funding for new nuclear facilities and uranium mines!

Phase out existing reactors!

Conduct a full investigation of the NRC!

Then write to your Congresspeople enclosing our Common Dreams oped on this issue. The article cites specific examples where the NRC has overtly supported industry safety shortcuts, failed to enforce its own safety regulations or allowed industry self-reporting.

Beyond Nuclear – Act Now

July 24, 2010 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | general | antinuclear, cancer, nuclear spin, nuclear weapons, radiation, radioactive, uranium