A possible return to atomic power??? WTH??? 🤬 🤬 🤬
Six years after Wisconsin lifted a ban on nuclear power plant construction, a La Crosse utility company that operated the state’s first nuclear plant is exploring a return to atomic power.
Dairyland Power Cooperative has agreed with NuScale Power to explore using the company’s small-scale nuclear generating technology as a carbon-free power source for about half a million customers in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa and Illinois.
This agreement provides Dairyland an opportunity to explore this technology and evaluate whether it might be a viable long-term alternative to provide our members with safe, reliable and cost-effective electricity in a lower-carbon future,” said Dairyland CEO Brent Ridge.
Maintaining reliability while cutting the coal-heavy utility’s greenhouse gas emissions will require “out of the box” thinking, said John Carr, vice president for strategic growth.
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Remembering the Killing of Karen Silkwood
August 11, 2009 in Capitalism, Environmental Justice, Nuclear, Organizing
After watching the brilliantly-acted and courageous film Silkwood (1983, starring Meryl Streep), I learned the compelling story of Karen Silkwood and her death, which has seemingly been forgotten by America. Karen, only 28, was a union activist working in a Kerr-McGee nuclear power plant in Oklahoma, who died in a suspicious car accident while on her way to meet with a New York Times reporter for a story that would have exposed the company’s dangerous and illegal mishandling of plutonium.
Karen was active in her union, calling attention to the radioactive contamination in the plant, and spent months compiling evidence to show that the company was deliberately covering up the fact that their fuel rods contained imperfections, which could put millions of lives at risk if they sparked a meltdown. The night of her death, many believe Karen was deliberately driven off the road by another car, and her family was later able to sue Kerr-McGee for $1.3 million in damages, but the company admits no wrongdoing.
The nuclear plant where Karen worked was shut down in 1975, one year after her death. When Karen’s story became public controversy, it helped display the dangers inherent to nuclear power, contributing to the amazingly successful anti-nuclear movement that has stopped construction of all new nuclear plants in the US since 1979. Thus is especially important today as some corporate lobbyists are trying to repackage nuclear power as a “clean” or “carbon-free” energy “source.” In fact, it’s none of those things.
Karen’s story is both a warning and an inspiration – that capitalism pushes companies to sometimes do terrible things to protect their profits, even if it means endangering lives, but also that brave people such as Karen Silkwood, in bringing the truth to light, can challenge us to create a better world.
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I'm not going to argue with you about this, I couldn't care less what you think of nuclear power, that's your opinion, mine's different.
Have a great Tuesday.
I would expect nothing less.
Cheers!
Once again - even if prior disasters were good arguments against nuclear (they aren't) - they aren't relevant to discussions of newer technologies. If some older plant is going to melt down next year... it's going to happen whether SMRs are deployed or not.
maybe you have hit on the biggest problem 
Nuclear may have moved on but if you think the part I quoted as changed all that much ... please turn on the news.
N.B. young idealistic non-white non-conservative women can do dumb stuff too. Just for different reasons. But still dumb and still potentially disastrous.
