Don't let it happen here. Urge your Reps to co-sponsor the Nuclear Power Plant Safety Act

[snagglepuss]

Don’t Let it Happen Here: Japan’s Nuclear Disaster Now on Par with Chernobyl

Representative Edward Markey (D-MA) is introducing new legislation - the Nuclear Power Plant Safety Act of 2011. Please urge your representatives to co-sponsor this Act. As Markey writes to his colleagues: “A nuclear disaster could happen here in America just as it has in Japan, our technological equal. This legislation will ensure that the lessons to be learned from the nuclear meltdown in Japan are incorporated into U.S. regulations to ensure the safety of our nuclear power plants in the United States.

“As these catastrophic events have unfolded, it has become clear that the meltdown did not occur primarily because of earthquake-related damage; rather, it occurred because of a prolonged loss of electricity to the reactor cores and their spent nuclear fuel pools. Such events could be caused not just by earthquakes or tsunamis, but by severe storms, terrorist attacks or other events.”

The Nuclear Power Plant Safety Act of 2011 will impose a moratorium on ALL new reactor licenses, reactor designs or license extensions until new safety requirements are in place. If your representatives need more information or would like to cosponsor the legislation, please have them contact Dr. Michal Freedhoff of Markey’s staff at 202-225-2836.

Read the full Markey letter here.



http://www.beyondnuclear.org/home/2011/4/15/urge-your-representatives-to-cosponsor-nuclear-power-plant-s.html

[Shagbark Hickory]

1. Kinda hard to be in favor of this safety act when you're a supporter of phasing out nukes.

"until new safety requirements are in place. "

Require mother nature not to do any more earthquakes.

Sounds too much like the idea for saftey recommendations that were supposed to keep air traffic controllers from falling asleep.

[Demeter]

2. Say anything, but stop the madness, is my strategy

I'm for any obstacle that can be thrown in the path of global annihilation.

[snagglepuss]

3. Is there such legislation being drafted at this moment? This can start the ball rolling.

[Shagbark Hickory]

4. For what? Phasing out nukes or phasing out earthquakes? nt

[snagglepuss]

5. Phasing out nukes.

[Shagbark Hickory]

6. I'm not aware of any legislation or even a petition to phase out this dirty, dangerous technology.

Washington's in the pocket of the planet destroyers.

[snagglepuss]

8. So that being the case do you not think this legislation would be a good

first step?

[Shagbark Hickory]

9. Yes, lets phase them out.

Earthquakes too while we're at it.

Lets implement a plan to replace nukes with wind, solar and hyrdoelectic.
And more importantly lets force industry, who are the largest consumers of energy to pay a fair price for their energy so the people who use the least energy are rewarded rather than the other way around.

[snagglepuss]

10. Interesting that you refuse to address the point on the OP.

[Shagbark Hickory]

11. How so?

[snagglepuss]

12. kick nt

[immoderate]

7. immoderate's rule: (improbable) X (time) = (inevitable)

--imm

[marions ghost]

13. from the letter

“As these catastrophic events have unfolded, it has become clear that the meltdown did not occur primarily because of earthquake-related damage; rather, it occurred because of a prolonged loss of electricity to the reactor cores and their spent nuclear fuel pools. Such events could be caused not just by earthquakes or tsunamis, but by severe storms, terrorist attacks or other events.”

I hope people are supporting this.