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Friends of the Earth is running this ad in South Carolina and Georgia against the Obama Administration's proposed $55 billion bailout of the nuclear industry. For more information, see our website: http://foe.org/energy/nuclear-reactors

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[DrBuzz0]

A couple of weeks ago a gas fired power plant blew up and killed six. Never once as a nuclear power plant in the US killed a single person.  Chernobyl is a strawman. That's like comparing a 747 to the Hindenburg - it was an unsafe RMBK reactor that was improperly run.

Gas power plants do blow up and kill people. The number one source of power that kills in catastrophic failures is hydroelectric (BY FAR)

[barackorama69]

Reminder, TMI still hasn't caused a single death, unsafe chernobyl style reactors haven't been built for 40 years and wind power has a higher injury/death rate pwe MW generated than nuclear power.

[AreaParis]

NUCLEAR POWER = DEATH. Don't believe the lies here in the comments. Ask the families of the victims, there are millions of them around the world, and in the USA.

[marushkafrance]

Everytime I write Senators, Congressman, President and local politicians, I say NO to any more subsidies for oil, gas or nuclear. NO NUKES, no subsidies, no re-licensing of old plants, no new licensing....

senate.gov house.gov whitehouse.gov

write, often,

[Tekknorg]

@barackorama69 Why was there no death at 3 Mile Island? The IAEA put pressure on the court that not a single suit and not a single case can be brought to court, because the IAEA plays the role of an exptert (they don't have) and undermines the law of free speech and the general law.

[Tekknorg]

@DrBuzz0 What a crazy thing to say. Quiet Death of japanese children starts in 3 - 4 years (latency of Cesium / Strontium). People died (!) at 3 Mile Island. How about using mind AND google? Start here: "Victims of the Nuclear Age, Dr. Rosalie Bertell, The Ecologist, 11/99". Get your facts right!

[firebombclipper]

I see the bastard children of the nuclear mafia, have shown up.Great video. Thumbs up. These welfare bums will have to get a real job soon. We'll be selling them power from our solar panels. Aha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha !

[WakingUpFast]

@kirksorensen I guess Fukushima is just one of those little inconvenient non-truths that proves how much better and safer aging, poorly-maintained nuclear power plants are than other sources of energy hey? LOL dipstick.

[MsLauradelBosque]

I will just assume that all of the negative commentators don't have children, and could care less for others' children, and their childrens' children, and so on.....

[igmuska]

@Darkwizzrobe So you say that we all should be slaves, perhaps enjoy working at Wendy while just a mile away sits a toxic nuclear plant that actively evades all attempts by the public to have long-term health studies on it...mosquitoes plagued the Panama Canal builders, but they didn't burn down the forest, drain the water to kill those bugs. In like manner, we need electricity but do we need nuclear power plants. Not at all we need a better way to move the Great Plains wind energy to the cities

[Darkwizzrobe]

@igmuska You know that's funny you bring up Egyptian pyramids, over 4000 years ago slaves and old architects built pyramids out of stone that still stand today and fewer into the past they built mastabas tombs out of mud bricks and sticks that still exist and my point being that anti-nukes don't believe with modern 21AD tech that we can store nuclear waste for thousands of years that won't leach out to the environment and yet 4600 before we could build mud brick tombs to last as long for safety

[Lunargolfball]

@xcd48gtf3 I agree in Kentucky for the past three years legislation has tried to been past that removes the state ban on nuclear plants. Every year the Democratic controlled house blocks it. They all get huge gifts from Kentucky Coal and will directly say that nuclear threatens coal.