If you are concerned about nuclear energy resurgence in the US: VOTE

[chomskysright]

As an activist in Western NC just advised:

This is a link to an article about new nuclear power plans. The article includes a link about 1/2 down the page that says in RED: LIVE VOTE -- Is it time for a nuclear Renaissance?
Many will dismiss the importance of taking 2 minutes to click the links and vote -- but the industry has obviously organized for this vote since it is running 70% in favor of new nuclear reactors. If you want more nuclear shipments in WNC, vote yes... otherwise...vote NO! Please do vote. MSNBC will, no doubt use this "poll" in their future reporting. --

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7921287



Six sites finalists for nuclear power plants
U.S. consortium's list could be step toward renaissance

AP file
The Bellefonte Nuclear Plant in Scottsboro, Ala., was never completed but it might find new life after a consortium placed it on a shortlist for the first nuclear power plants in the United States in two decades.
MSNBC staff and news service reports
Updated: 11:15 a.m. ET May 20, 2005A nuclear power plant hasn't been built in the United States in two decades, but that could change in the next few years after a consortium announced locations in six states as possible sites for a nuclear renaissance.

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Nuclear power consortium NuStart Energy on Thursday named the sites from which it will later pick two for which to apply for licenses to build and operate nuclear power plants.

Four of the six already house operating nuclear power plants. The sites, by location, are:

Scottsboro, Ala. The Bellefonte Nuclear Plant, an unfinished site owned by the U.S. government's Tennessee Valley Authority.
Port Gibson, Miss. The Grand Gulf Nuclear Station, owned by Entergy.
St. Francisville, La. The River Bend Station, owned by Entergy.
Aiken, S.C. The Savannah River Site, a U.S. Department of Energy nuclear weapons lab.
Lusby, Md. The Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Plant, owned by Constellation Energy.
Oswego, N.Y. The Nine Mile Point plant, owned by Constellation Energy.
All six sites chosen by NuStart are owned either by a consortium member or by the Department of Energy.

The consortium, which hopes to work on two advanced plant designs, said it expects to name the two finalists by October.

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Live Vote: Time for a nuclear renaissance?

[yourout]

1. Gotta disagree with you on this one.

For at least the next 50 years or so we need nuclear power. Now is the time to build hopefully the last generation of fision reactors that will be replaced by fusion hopefully. There has been some rather substantial advances in nuclear fision reactor technologies that are already in service in Europe and Japan.