Musicians Band Together for No Nukes Redux as New Nuclear Plants Loom

This group should be applauded for their efforts, but they and others need to do a lot more.

The other MAJOR piece of the puzzle that needs some serious attention, is the wrongful license renewal of America's 104 aging plants such as Entergy's Indian Point. Said plant is leaking strontium 90 into the Hudson, Tritium is causing greatly elevated levels of various cancers in the area around the plant, including New York City, as well as significant parts of Connecticut and New Jersey.

Let's hope that Bonnie and Jackson Browne intend to take a stand soon on the License Renewal Issue.

It's reasonable for any private citizen to question legislation and its value. But if you'd like a realistic picture of the US nuclear industry from someone who's actually immersed in it every day, see http://RadDecision.blogspot.com . Rad Decision is a novel and it's free to online readers. (It's also in paperback). Stewart Brand, founder of The Whole Earth Catalog has said "I'd like to see Rad Decision widely read."

Sherwood - it's not up to Bonnie Raitt et al - it's up to all of us.

If you think that's an area that needs attention, contact your representatives in Congress, write letters to the editor of mainstream media, comment on more blogs, etc, etc.

the future is up to all of us!

James - I would normally decline to publish a comment that is such obvious self-promotion, but your book does look interesting.

Thanks. I figure it's got good information no matter where you come down on the issue, it's free with no site advertising, and I don't get any royalties from the paper version either. So it's self-promotion without self-enrichment, at any rate. Thanks for passing it through.

In November 1972, a Southern Airways jetliner was hijacked. Over the course of several days, the hijackers forced the pilots to fly to several cities. Along the way, they threatened a forced dive-bombing into a nuclear plant. Fortunately, this did not happen.

The plane's final destination was Havana, Cuba, where the hijackers thought they'd find freedom from the oppression they believed they lived under in the United States. They couldn't have been more wrong. They were immediately arrested and imprisoned in 4x4 cells.