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Stealth nuke effort should be stopped
CNN.Com(munists) ^ | 10/12/2007 | Bonnie Raitt, Jackson Browne, Graham Nash & Harvey Wasserman

Posted on 10/12/2007 12:24:40 PM PDT by Red Badger

LOS ANGELES (CNN) -- In 1979, we helped organize five nights of concerts at Madison Square Garden and an anti-nuke rally that drew 200,000 people. These efforts and the ongoing work of many grassroots and national safe energy groups have helped to hold off the building of new nuclear reactors ever since.

But three decades later, we're facing the same nuclear issues. And to counter this threat, we are organizing once again.

One of America's most critical financial and ecological decisions is now before Congress. The atomic energy industry wants at least $50 billion in loan guarantees for a "new generation" of reactors that have already begun to fail, and that Wall Street won't finance....

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: energy; idiocy; nuclear; pollution
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To: Dogbert41

It’s very STEALTH and you know it!! Why practically anyone can hide a reactor facility in their back yard. I you hand out rose colored glasses and some LSD, they’ll never see the plant.


21 posted on 10/12/2007 1:07:53 PM PDT by RSmithOpt (Liberalism: Highway to Hell)
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To: RexBeach

GO NUKES!! Please build a nuclear reactor in my backyard!


22 posted on 10/12/2007 1:32:28 PM PDT by paulweir
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To: saganite
The only reason Wall Street won’t finance these is because they know nutcases want to prevent them at any cost and could stop them in mid construction with lawsuits and legislation.

Yup!

It's fear of the kooks, not fear of the nukes!

23 posted on 10/12/2007 5:11:59 PM PDT by SteamShovel (Global Warming, the New Patriotism)
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