Paul Gunter from Clamshell Alliance to Beyond Nuclear - ECU #653

Paul Gunter from Clamshell Alliance to Beyond Nuclear - ECU #653 Paul Gunter is director of the Reactor Oversight Project of the organization Beyond Nuclear which challenges nuclear power and nuclear weapons in the U.S. and the world. He is deeply involved now in fighting the plan of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission to let nuclear power plants run for 100 years—although they were only originally licensed and seen to operate for 40 years. With hardly any new nuclear power plants being built in the U.S., nuclear promoters seek to “run these reactors into the ground,” says Gunter. At the same time, the NRC is allowing nuclear power plants to be “uprated,” to run hotter and harder to generate more electricity—further inviting nuclear disasters. Gunter also speaks of the drive today, with Microsoft founder Bill Gates a leader, for “advanced” nuclear power plants which, he says, is “a mirage.” He says “there’s nothing safe about the process of fissioning the atom” and these nuclear systems also “generate more and more nuclear waste that we don’t know what to do with” and present other problems. Further, nuclear power is not an answer to climate change, he emphasizes. It’s not carbon-free—mining, milling and enrichment of uranium produce greenhouse gases, and nuclear plants themselves emit Carbon-14, a radioactive form of carbon. Gunter, whose anti-nuclear activism began with his co-founding the New England-based Clamshell Alliance, tells of how “both sides of the aisle in Congress are working to resuscitate this failed…inherently dangerous industry”—and he outlines what people can do in the struggle to eliminate nuclear power and nuclear weapons.

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