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The Alliance for Nuclear Responsibility works to educate and protect the citizens of the State of California and future generations from the dangers of radioactive contamination. We support educating the public on options for energy generation, the dangers of aging nuclear plants and the increasing production and storage of high-level radioactive waste on California's coastal zone.

The Alliance for Nuclear Responsibility Legal fund will lobby for California legislation to limit the production and storage of high-level radioactive waste on California's coast to current license terms and to prohibit license renewals for California's nuclear plants until there is a permanent safe and operating solution to the storage of high-level radioactive waste.

We are supported entirely by people like you. All of the funds we receive are used for education programs and travel expenses. Funds received for the Legal Fund will be used entirely for that purpose. We have one part-time paid staff person; all other members are unpaid volunteers. We are working on obtaining grant money, a very slow process but one we hope will be successful.

EVERYTHING YOU ALWAYS WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT NUCLEAR POWER *but were afraid to ask

Not content to address nuclear issues in California, our outreach coordinator, David Weisman, recently previewed his film www.everythingnuclear.org for the Oyster Creek reactor watchdogs in New Jersey. He then spent Earth Day 2009 in Salt Lake City where he screened his new documentary, "Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Nuclear Power* but were afraid to ask" on behalf of the group HEAL Utah. HEAL has been working to create a nuclear moratorium in the Utah legislature similar to California's and to stop the licensing of a low-level radioactive dump in the western region of the state. An enthusiastic audience of about 80 people filled the "Brewvies" cinema pub for the event. In addition, David gave a lecture on the problems of nuclear power and democratic participation to a grad school class in environmental humanities at the University of Utah, and participated in two radio local interviews (NPR podcast at: http://kcpw.org/article/7752 and Salt Lake City radio station KRCL talking about his new documentary http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/krcl/news.newsmain?action=article&ARTICLE_ID=1497997§ionID=1 ) plus appearing live on the Salt Lake City FOX-TV morning news. On the second day, David met with the outreach and policy coordinators for HEAL to help them strategize tactics for dealing with the Utah legislature and the NRC. Yet another new "alliance" for the Alliance has been formed with these dedicated young advocates and is set to show the film and conduct several interviews and speaking events in Utah to mark Earth Day this week.

EVERYTHING YOU ALWAYS WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT NUCLEAR POWER*
*but were afraid to ask

This lively new video mixes historic news clips and ironic, vintage propaganda films along with contemporary experts and analysis to remind us of nuclear power’s troubled history. At a time when nuclear power is being touted as a cure for global warming — and is asking for billions in taxpayer subsidies — it’s time to explore cleaner, safer and cheaper solutions.

If you live in a reactor community — or the site of a new, proposed reactor — you might consider getting a copy of the DVD and asking your local community access or public access cable TV station to run the program on or around March 28th. It’s 42 minutes long, and that leaves an extra 18 minutes for local advocates to do an “in-studio” discussion or follow up to the broadcast of the video.

You can view the whole video streaming on-line at www.everythingnuclear.org or order a DVD for $10 to cover duplication, handling and shipping.

To order:

Send an email with your contact and shipping address to Rochelle@a4nr.org

Pay on-line with a credit card at www.a4nr.org and click on the “Donate Now” button

Send a check for $10 to: Alliance for Nuclear Responsibility, PO Box 1328, San Luis Obispo, CA 93406

If you order by Thursday, March 19, your video will arrive by March 25.

Special thanks to the SEED Coalition of Texas for inspiring this outreach!

To sign up for newsletter and/or alerts: www.a4nr.org

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California's Remaining Nuclear Plants

Are these Nuclear Power Plants a safe distance from California's population centers? We think not. Click on either of the aerial views below to see the Plant in a Google Maps window. From there you can pan around the area, zoom out to see a larger area, and select the Map view, to see the names of roads and cities.

diablo aerial view
Diablo Canyon
Nuclear Power Plant
(DCNPP)
SONGS aerial view
San Onofre Nuclear
Generating Station
(SONGS)
You will notice that SONGS is very close to the 101 freeway and not far from San Clemente, to the North. DCNPP, though hidden by the Irish hills is near Morro Bay, San Luis Obispo, and the five cities area to the south. In the case of a discharge from either plant, prevailing winds would blow any discharge towards populated areas. And we should bear in mind that over a thousand miles from the source, the effects of Chernobyl are still being felt since the massive radioactive release starting on April 26th 1986. In Chernobyl there are still major long-term containment issues to be addressed.

What is also apparent from these maps is that detailed information is available publicly for anyone planning an aerial or ground attack on these plants. While the industry will have us believe the 3 feet concrete containment vessels keep the dangerous radiation in, the fact is that there are many vulnerable areas at these plants. Not least of these are the spent fuel pools, that the NAS agrees are a grave safety concern.