No New Nukes
Portland, OR-based documentary filmmaker Jan Haaken looks at NuScale Power, SMRs, and the latest attempts to sell nuclear as "clean energy".
As someone who agrees with RMI's Amory Lovins, Stanford's Mark Jacobson and others that we do not need nuclear power to decarbonize, Atomic Bamboozle is right up my alley. Filmmaker Jan Haaken and an all-star panel of activists are slated to talk following a screening next weekend:
Jan Haaken, director, professor emeritus of psychology at Portland State University, a clinical psychologist, and documentary filmmaker
Lauren Goldberg, executive director for Columbia Riverkeeper with over a decade of experience advocating for Hanford Nuclear Site cleanup
Lloyd Marbet, executive director Oregon Conservancy Foundation and longtime anti-nuclear activist
Cathy Sampson-Kruse, associate producer, enrolled member of the Waluulapum Tribe of the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation, retired social worker, and a champion in protecting clean water from fossil fuels and nuclear waste
Greg Kafoury, attorney in private practice with Kafoury & McDoougal Attorneys, served as Co-Director of Don't Waste Oregon
Moderated by Dr. Patricia Kullberg, former medical director of Multnomah County Health Department and member of Oregon Physicians for Social Responsibility
A cursory search of last year’s Inflation Reduction Act suggests that the U.S. intends to keep pouring money into new nukes (aka “qualified” nuclear, “advanced” nuclear, and the like) for years regardless of the merits.
Of possible interest: The Necessity Defense, The “Inflation Reduction Act” is not the Green New Deal