Sierra Club, one of the oldest, largest, and most influential
grassroots environmental activist groups in the U.S.,
has been
tentatively anti-nuke since 1974,
observing now that none of its conditions of
energy conservation, reactor safety, nuclear fuel disposal,
weapons proliferation,
or adequate regulation have ever been met,
has come out unequivocably against nuclear power.
The Sierra Club remains unequivocally opposed to nuclear energy.
Although nuclear plants have been in operation for less than 60
years, we now have seen three serious disasters.
Tragically, it took a horrific disaster in Japan to remind the world
that none of the fundamental problems with nuclear power have ever
been addressed.
Besides reactor safety, both nuclear proliferation and the required
long-term storage of nuclear waste (which remains lethal for more
than 100,000 years) make nuclear power a uniquely dangerous energy
technology for humanity.
Plenty of links in
that Sierra Club page.
Sierra Club is one of the first two of the 99 sponsors of
the Forward on Climate rally,
high noon Sunday 17 February 2013 on the National Mall in Washington D.C.
I’ll be there.
How about you?
-jsq
