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(The Center Square) – A legislative committee killed a Republican-backed bill on Thursday that sought to establish a feasibility study on nuclear energy operations in Colorado.
Seems like the bribery scheme worked better than the astroturfing does. Melty is right up there with the Three Mile Island 5K for nuclear energy My fault for not looking at the Generation Atomic website before posting, but it takes a special kind of lack of moral character to create a logo that involves a raised clenched fist to represent your nuclear power industry astroturf advocacy organization. Especially when they’re an organization literally asking to have hundreds of millions of dollars handed over to a for profit business that makes billions of dollars annually and bribes public off...
The Indian Point nuclear plant was shut down on April 30. (File photo by B. Cronin) It was supposed to usher in a golden age for nuclear power in New York, and initially had little opposition. But eventually a network of environmental groups as well as everyday citizens who were wary of nuclear power in the wake of Three Mile Island, and then Chernobyl, turned against it. The public questioned the wisdom of building a nuclear power plant so close to New York City. Activists led protests, serenaded by folk singer Pete Seeger, a resident of Beacon. The evacuation plan the plant created was deem...