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Showing videos filed under: nuclear power
Leo Gerard: Time to Rethink Nuclear Power
March 18, 2011"Now we think not only us are going to have to review our sense of comfort. I am not very comfortable." says Leo Gerard, President of the United Steelworkers union. Gerard himself was once a union representative at a facility that mined and refined uranium, and he represents many workers in such dangerous conditions across the country today. The USW has long been part of the Blue-Green Alliance, creating a labor-environmentalist coalition, but stopped short of calling for an end to nuclear power--but will that change after Japan?Nuclear Power Regaining Favor
January 27, 2010No new nuclear power plants have been authorized since 1979, but with the growing concern for climate change, the nuclear energy industry has argued that they can produce large amounts of energy with very little carbon. Republicans in Congress have been pushing for 100 new nuclear reactors--the first applications in 25 years started arriving in 2007. Longtime activist and author Judy Pasternak recently produced this report for the Real News Network on the continuing danger of nuclear power.June 12, 2008: Promises Kept, Promises Broken, & Green Nukes?
June 12, 2008Today, on GRITtv: Green Nukes or Greenwash? Ariel Dorfman, Broken Promises, and vets doing green construction in NOLA. As seen on Dish Network, ch. 9415 (Free Speech TV.)
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