

PORTLAND (5/13/10) Nuclear Watch South coordinator Glenn Carroll interviewed by Cris Andreae on AIR CASCADIA, Portland KBOO.fm to discuss Southern Company and nuclear racism in siting dangerous nuclear reactors in rural African-American community Shell Bluff, Georgia.
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BLACK AGENDA REPORT (5/4/10) In the weeks since President Obama announced $8.3 billion in loan guarantees to build new nuclear reactors next to an existing pair of nukes in mostly black Burke County, GA, the inconvenient questions, unanswered and mostly unasked, continue to pile up.
ATLANTA (2/16/10)
The “Nuclear Renaissance” has reached a controversial milestone with President Obama and Energy Secretary Chu’s announcement that $8.3 billion in tax-funded loan guarantees is being offered to Southern Company to construct two new reactors in Georgia.
Glenn Carroll, coordinator of Nuclear Watch South called the tax giveaways “a giant radioactive rip-off" adding that "radioactive risk and radioactive waste are the only promises that nukes can be counted on to keep.”
ATLANTA (4/21/10) Twelve national and regional environmental organizations are calling upon U.S. nuclear regulators to launch an investigation into newly identified flaws in Westinghouse’s new reactor design. The coalition asked three federal agencies to suspend the AP1000 reactor from licensing and taxpayer loan consideration.
The news in Vermont follows Obama’s announcement last week of $8.3 billion in loan guarantees for the construction of the first new nuclear power plants in the United States in close to three decades. The loan guarantees will help the Atlanta-based Southern Company build two more nuclear reactors in Burke County, Georgia, near the city of Augusta. We speak to Nuclear Watch South coordinator Glenn Carroll, who has been leading efforts against the construction of the new plants.
ALSO ON DEMOCRACY NOW! Nuclear engineer Arnie Gundersen speaks about the historic vote to shut Vermont Yankee and the cover-up of an underground plume of radioactive tritium heading for the Connecticut River. Arnie's stunning and informative interview with Amy Goodman begins at the 10:30 mark.
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ALICE is none other than Nuclear Watch South's Leslie Minerd who is joined by White Rabbit Tom Clements (Friends of the Earth), Red Queen and SC Sierra Club Chair Susan Corbett, and Tea Party Host Extraordinaire, the Mad Hatter, Tim Liszewski of Carolina Peace Resource Center. Alice and Crew crashed the 2008 Tea Party rally in Columbia, SC, and put tax-funded nuclear loan guarantees in front of the Tea Partiers and the local media.