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2012 is the Year to Finally Bury Nuke Power

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The movement to shut the old reactors is hitting critical mass.  The Vermont Yankee case will go to the US Supreme Court, which must decide if corporations are above even the contracts they sign with the public.   Some two dozen Fukushima clones now operate in the US.  They are old, rickety, cracked and dangerous.  Other designs, like Ohio''s Davis-Besse, with a cracked containment and an infamous hole eaten through its head, aren't faring much better.  Nebraska's Cooper has been flooded.  Indian Point, New York, is also under attack from the state (http://nukefree.org/ny-state-assembly-take-testimony-shutting-indian-point ).  Once the first of these are forced shut, the dam will break and the American fleet of 104 licensed reactors will rapidly shrink, along with others around the world.

Far more money is being invested in renewables worldwide than in nukes or even fossil fuels.  Green energy will soon constitute the world's largest industry, financially and in terms of employment.  The conversion to a post-fossil/nuclear Solartopian economy based entirely on renewables and efficiency will mark the most important industrial transition in human history.

Fukushima has taught us that as long as reactors operate, the apocalyptic clock is ticking.  

With that in mind, and with the flow of green money turning into a financial tsunami, we can make 2012 the year nuke power finally dies.

It will require a serious push from the grassroots.  

But we are ready to win a green-powered earth.  

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 Harvey Wasserman's SOLARTOPIA!  OUR GREEN-POWERED EARTH is at www.harveywasserman.ning.com.  He edits the www.nukefree.org website

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