The resurrection of nuclear power as a solution for We can do better than false solutions

The resurrection of nuclear power as a solution for anything is a travesty. For all its claims, nuclear power is neither clean nor green. It is a dirty, toxic technology. It relies on its invisibility to keep its lies going while communities suffer the burden of its broken promises.

Nuclear reactors use millions of gallons of water to operate to cool the reactor each day. It returns heated water that undermines rivers and waterways and compromises aquatic life. It also routinely releases radioactive waste into the air and water of host communities. Water in a changing climate is a precious commodity.

High-level nuclear waste is stranded at reactor sites across the country with no solution. The government and industry abdicated the responsibility to develop a scientifically sound and environmentally just solution to its monstrous waste problem. The communities targeted for this waste, like the communities targeted for reactors, are working poor, people of color and Indigenous.

This is environmental racism. We must do better.

Deborah Katz

Citizens Awareness Network, Rowe