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Dear Editor: This letter is in response to the column John La Forge wrote regarding the Legislature’s proposal to do away with the moratorium on nuclear plant construction in Wisconsin. First I want to thank John for his insights and forbearance on the nuclear issues we face as a state and global community.

Nuclear energy has created far more problems than solutions.

The old argument that nuclear power is cheap has proven to be false over and over again. The new argument that nuclear power will help to solve the global warming/climate change problem is simply not true.

Look at Fukushima — the meltdowns and the resultant deadly oceanic and atmospheric radioactive contamination. The oceans produce much of the world’s oxygen while they absorb much of the greenhouse gas CO2. The Pacific Ocean is experiencing a critical die-off that mainstream media don’t recognize. Marine nuclear radiation contamination is destroying the phytoplankton-based ocean food chain. Sea life is rolling up on shores as never before.

We are in a global crisis, with extinction levels at an all-time high. Nuclear destroys fertility and mutates/damages DNA. In the face of these truths, and consequences, how dare they promote nuclear energy! Ask the Japanese if they want another nuclear plant! Ask the indigenous nations if they want another uranium mine. The nuclear industry has brought unprecedented suffering, death and tragedy. It has not, and will not, contribute to global climate stability, prosperity, or a healthy world.

The nuclear industry and “radioactive waste trade” is toxic to all life and as such it must end. The nuclear pushers are self-centered criminals of the highest degree — careless of all earth-life and should be held accountable for what they have already unleashed against humanity and earth!