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APRIL 15: HANFORD ANTI-NUKE RALLY – HONORING THE TRI-PARTY AGREEMENT
http://occupyportland.org/2012/04/10/hanford/

Links – Educate yourself! | Hanford ~ North America's Fukushima?
https://hanfordrally.wordpress.com/press-2/

Press Release
OCCUPY PORTLAND PRESS RELEASE
http://hanfordrally.wordpress.com/press/

Occupy Portland
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Beth Rakoncay
Phone: (971)258-1627
Email: hanfordrally@gmail.com

Hanford: North America’s Fukushima
A15
Occupy Portland Speaks Out on an Environmental Tragedy

Mass action planned for April 15

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SAGE ALLIANCE - Rally to Support Vermont: Shut Down Vermont Yankee
http://sagealliance.net/actions/brattleboro-rally-4-14-12
When: Apr 14 2012 - 12:00pm to 2:00pm
Location: Town Commons, Brattleboro, VT [rain location:Brattleboro Union High School]

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http://www.clamshellalliance.org/organize/2012/01/13/occupy-nuclear-power/
Occupy – Nuclear Power

Clamshell Alliance http://clamshellalliance.org/

NUCLEAR POWER: AN IDEA WHOSE TIME IS OVER

Occupy is protesting the inequities that come from socializing risk onto the 99% and privatizing profits for the 1%. The collapse of housing and financial markets is a good example.

Nuclear power is another case of how the public pays for energy choices that favor corporate profits and control. Public dollars concentrate profits to nuclear corporations, warping energy choices to support centralized, capital intensive electric generation. Decentralized renewables and energy efficiency lose out.

THE 50-YEAR NUCLEAR POWER BAILOUT

Astonishingly, it would have been cheaper to buy electricity on the open market and give it away, than to have built and operated the 104 privately owned U.S. nuclear power reactors! Since 1960, public subsidies to nuclear power companies are worth more than all the electric power their reactors generate.

The public props up the nuclear power industry through a complex mesh of:

Ø Federal loan guarantees, now at $18.5 billion; Pres. Obama wants to raise them to $54 billion,
Ø Accelerated depreciation for fuel and construction,
Ø Ratepayers footing the bills for construction work before electricity is generated,
Ø Tax abatements,
Ø Long term operating costs for high level waste storage and reactor decommissioning,
Ø Hidden costs of nuclear proliferation and necessarily heavy reactor security,
Ø Limitations on disaster liability.

PUBLIC RISK, PRIVATE PROFIT. The Price Anderson Act of 1957 (extended to 2025) was enacted to protect the fledgling privately owned nuclear industry “against potentially enormous liability claims in the event of a nuclear accident.”

Ø First, members of the public—homeowners, businesses— cannot get nuclear disaster insurance.
Ø Insurance is limited to $300,000 per reactor issued by CT-based American Nuclear Insurers (ANI).
Ø More extensive damages at any reactor are to be covered from a common pot every owner funds
Ø The pot is about $11.6 billion, much too small considering:

US government studies show potential losses could rise as high as $560 billion;
The catastrophe at Chernobyl (different from US reactor models), cost about $350 billion;
The disaster at Fukushima Daiichi (same models and ages as the VT Yankee, Indian Point, and Pilgrim reactors) could cost as much as $130 billion by Japanese government estimates.
In 2001, ANI’s senior vice president told Congress that without Price Anderson, the nuclear industry cannot be insured, so the industry itself is not viable without this massive liability cap.

JOBS FROM CONSERVATION AND SAFE RENEWABLES. No other energy source enjoys this colossal and market-distorting support of public dollars. Millions of jobs can be created by opting for decentralized renewables and energy efficiency, choices that can provide safe, reliable energy.

Ø For every $1 million invested, solar, wind, and a smart electric grid create 14.25 jobs; nuclear: 4.2.
Ø An all-out WPA-type energy efficiency program can provide massive employment. Rather than perpetuating the wartime economy, give soldiers and veterans nail guns and training to use them.
Ø Replacing energy from a nuclear reactor (cost $41 billion; 2,400 jobs) by spending the same amount on retrofitting 3.2 million homes would create 440,000 jobs.
Ø Conserving energy in every building in the US would pull the US out of this economic depression. We would save half the energy we use, and put ourselves firmly on the road to true energy security.

SOURCES: Union of Concerned Scientists (www.ucsusa.org); Nuclear Information and Resource Service (www.nirs.org); Beyond Nuclear (www.beyondnuclear.org); the Cato Institute (www.cato.org); Political Economy Research Institute (www.peri.umass.edu), Office for Sustainability, Southern NH University (http://www.snhu.edu/9474.asp ); Institute for Energy and the Environment, Vermont Law School (environmentallaw.vermontlaw.edu).

Link to Occupy-Nuclear Power

Nuclear power continues to pose a threat to life and earth and is the essential technology driving the proliferation of nuclear weapons. Every nuclear reactor is a potential bomb factory that burns and produces materials which with further processing can be used to make nuclear warheads. Nuclear accidents have led to nuclear catastrophes. Chernobyl and now Fukushima have given us the resolve to say “No to nuclear!”.

FROM 1/28/2012: Support for a joint declaration between the assemblies of Moscow and New York from the Anti-War Working Group
January 27, 2012 in Assemblies, Past Proposals
JOINT DECLARATION BETWEEN THE ASSEMBLIES OF MOSCOW AND NEW YORK
http://www.nycga.net/2012/01/27/1282012-support-for-a-joint-declaration-between-the-assemblies-of-moscow-and-new-york-from-the-anti-war-working-group/

ALSO FROM JOINT DECLARATION BETWEEN THE ASSEMBLIES OF MOSCOW AND NEW YORK
January 27, 2012 in Assemblies, Past Proposals -

"We put forth the following list of concrete measures to achieve nuclear abolition and disarmament:"

• An end to the spread of nuclear technology around the planet and shutdown of existing nuclear power plants.

Occupy Boston Supports an End to Fossil Fuel & Nuclear Subsidies, Corruption
http://www.occupyboston.org/2012/02/06/occupy-boston-supports-fossil-fuel-nuclear-subsidies/

February 6th, 2012 · gmurphy · Passed Resolutions One comment
The below proposal reached agreement at OB General Assembly, on February 4, 2012.

Fossil fuel and nuclear corporations are some of the wealthiest interests on the planet – yet they still suck up billions of dollars in government subsidies. They buy off elected officials and corrupt our political process while sticking us – the 99% – with the bill for the health, ecological and climate destruction they cause. Their coal, oil, gas and nukes fuel our unjust economic systems, imperil our planetary future and prevent us from shifting to a clean energy economy of, by and for the people.

Occupy Boston therefore calls for:
• An end to all government subsidies to fossil fuel and nuclear energy interests;
• An end to corporate influence, including energy industry influence, on politics;
• Immediate action to reduce greenhouse gas concentrations to below the safe atmospheric threshold of 350 parts per million CO2e; starting with the rejection of the Keystone XL Pipeline
• A just transition for workers currently employed in fossil fuel and nuclear energy sectors to sustainable employment.

We pledge to make personal and group choices that support these aims.”

Occupy's Melt-In at Grand Central Station, New York City [VIDEO]
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On April 29 We Commemorate:
26th Year Anniversary of Continued Chernobyl Meltdown
33rd Anniversary of the Three-Mile Island Disaster
Recognition of the Continuing Fukushima Meltdown
And we Stand for Permanent Decommissioning of the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS)

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SHUT SAN ONOFRE RALLY AT UTILITY COMPANY OFFICES -- MAY 23 - SAN DIEGO
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** Date/Time: Wednesday, May 23, 2012, 4pm to 6pm
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** Location: Sempra Energy Offices, 101 Ash Street San Diego, CA 92101
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** (And at offices in Irvine, San Francisco, Oakland, and Fresno.) Parking: Free parking available at Horton Plaza parking garage (validate at machines in the mall). Trolley Stop: Civic Center station, two blocks away.
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** Shut San Onofre | SEMPRA Denies Activists Access to Deliver Letter | M23 Rally
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