Anti-Nuclear

When I heard about radiation leaks in Japan caused by the earth quakes I couldn't help think about nuclear power and the storage of high level radioactive waste here in Saskatchewan. The people of Saskatchewan voted overwhelmingly against nuclear in SK, yet the conservative government here seems determined to ram it down our throats.

Below is email text from another Green Party of Saskatchewan candidate:

THE SITUATION IN JAPAN IS STILL SERIOUS

WE WILL KEEP YOU UPDATED

AND ACT NOW TO TELL CONGRESS WE WON'T ACCEPT MORE NUCLEAR POWER IN THE U.S.!

March 11, 2011; 7:00 pm

Dear Friends,

As you can probably imagine, we have been closely monitoring the situation with Japan's nuclear reactors all day, staying in close contact with our colleagues in Japan, trying to separate fact from rumor and providing accurate information to the media, to many, many callers, on Facebook and on our website.

We produced and have updated several times a factsheet on the Fukushima reactors and the ongoing concerns about what appears to be becoming a very serious situation. We will continue updating this factsheet through the evening and weekend as events warrant and we obtain reliable information. This factsheet is available here. We encourage you to use it, check periodically for updates and refer your local media to it.

This serves as a reminder that natural disasters can happen anytime, and when those disasters affect nuclear power reactors, the consequences can be catastrophic. We, of course, hope that such a catastrophe still will be averted in Japan.

This also serves as a reminder of the importance of ending taxpayer loans for new nuclear reactors in the U.S. Every reactor is vulnerable to a wide variety of natural disasters, as well as to operator error and mechanical failure. Even if nuclear reactors were cheap, and they're not, there are better, cleaner and safer ways of generating our electricity.

We hope you'll remind your Congressmembers now, as they are continuing to consider the federal budget, that nuclear loans must end.

Please feel free to e-mail us with your questions about the Japanese situation. We will respond to as many individual questions as we humanly can. Please check our website and Facebook pages regularly for updated information.

And please consider making a contribution to support our work; your help is needed now more than ever.

Thank you so much for all you do,

Michael Mariotte
Executive Director
Nuclear Information and Resource Service
nirsnet@nirs.org
www.nirs.org
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