Opposition stirring against new reactors

The environmental groups are challenging the project on several fronts in addition to the long-standing complaints about the dangers of storing nuclear waste indefinitely and the role it may play in nuclear weapons proliferation.

The groups point to the industry's last round of construction in the late 1970s and early 1980s, when projects regularly ran over budget and schedule, as proof new projects will also be costly.

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by Dwight Rousu - Oct. 1, 2008

The story says that social consciousness is alive somewhere in Texas, even if not in Crawford. The corporations sprinting to use government corporate welfare to build nuclear power plant targets that will poison the people and animals of the planet for millennia is indeed a worthy target of protest. Would Houston like our waste from Hanford? We could ship them a little radioactive Columbia River water for their Evian bottles...

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