The Special Committee on Nuclear Power wants to repeal Wisconsin’s nuclear moratorium law.  They’re going  to report to the Joint Legislative Council  in Room 411 south Madison Capital building, Thursday morning May 10th at 8:30AM.

Nuke Watch sends this message..........

Help keep more nuclear

reactors and radioactive

waste out of Wisconsin

 Please contact your State Legislators and urge them to VOTE NO on any repeal of state statute 196.493 ― a common sense law that protects the public from unnecessary pollution and nuclear waste.

 If passed, the repeal bill would encourage more nuclear power in Wisconsin and increase the likelihood that the state will become a national high-level nuclear waste dumpsite.

 If passed, the repeal would eliminate two legal requirements that must now be met before new reactors can be built in Wisconsin:

 1) That a federal nuclear waste storage site must be in operation; and 2) that reactor-generated electricity must be economically advantageous to the ratepayer compared with alternatives.

A special Nuclear Power Committee has recommended repeal of these precautionary, conservative requirements. Their effort is part of an industry push for more reactors and waste nationwide. Pro-nuclear propaganda has it that nuclear power is “cheap” and “carbon free.” But nuclear waste management will cost hundreds of billions of dollars for at least 300,000 years; and the mining, milling and production of reactor fuel creates millions of tons of carbon pollution that the industry ignores.

 The proposed Yucca Mountain dump site in Nevada is unfit and should never open. A Nuclear Regulatory Commission member said Feb. 7, 2007 that the Yucca project must be scrapped. This would put Wisconsin on the list of potential dump sites, especially if tons of new waste is produced by new reactors.

 The time to express your opinion is now, before the Wisconsin Legislative Council takes a vote ― possibly in May. Please call, write, email and/or visit your legislators as soon as possible.

Nukewatch

P.O. Box 649, Luck, Wisc. 54853

(715) 472-4185

nukewatch@lakeland.ws

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