Consider the following facts: Westinghouse Electric Corporation has sold a nuclear reactor costing $1.1 billion to the Marcos dictatorship in the Philippines. This 620 megawatt reactor is being constructed in Morong, Bataan, on the slope of an active volcano, Mt. Natib. There are three other live volcanoes within a...
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Even though federal inspectors knew in the early afternoon of Wednesday, March 28 that the uranium core in the reactor at Three Mile Island (3MI) was seriously damaged, two days went by before news of the danger was made public.
After a year of preparation for the illegal "occupation-restoration" at the Seabrook nuclear plant on June 24th (the fourth occupation), New Hampshire Governor Meldrim Thomson on June 12th proposed a four-day "legal demonstration" on the neighboring 18 acre Seabrook dump- and suddenly it was a whole new ballgame. Was...
These songs are excerpted from the songbook published by the Clamshell Alliance, Songs to Stop Seabrook By, compiled by Beth DellaValle, David DiGiuseppe, and Jenny Van Pelt. The book is unfortunately out of print at present.
The number of conventional nuclear power plants in Japan reached 14 in 1977. An experimental fast breeder reactor also started test operation and a nuclear fuel reprocessing plant was put into operation in the same year. At the same time nearly half of the conventional light water reactors were out of operation...
The large corporations of the nuclear power industry have made their choice. They have invested a great deal of money in nuclear power in the hope of high profits, and they are using their vast economic power in an attempt to ensure that these hopes are realized.* In the late 1960s it looked as if these corporations...
The movement against nuclear energy in West Germany had its beginnings in Whyl, a small town on the French/Swiss/German border. The protests began on a small scale after the news of the planned atomic energy plant was made public in 1971. The movement was triggered by students and others from the nearby city of...
Seabrook, NH will again be the stage for massive nonviolent civil disobedience to protest nuclear power. The Clamshell Alliance, a New England-based organization of 53 local groups, is planning an "occupation/restoration" of the nuclear plant construction site on June 24. The call has gone out nationally and...
The Clamshell Alliance, an umbrella organization of 15 anti-nuclear groups, was formed at a July meeting of 50 people, almost all of whom were NH residents. The goal of the Alliance is the halt of Seabrook construction and to force PSC to cancel the project by employing any means necessary "within the context of non...