1. No Nukes No Where No How [the future of nuclear power]
Presented by Jane Feldman and Brian Paddock
Members of the CCL and
the Nuclear Issues Activist Network core team
with thanks to the rest of the NIAT core team
and special thanks to Fred Heutte, Club volunteer and Senior Policy Analyst, NW Energy Coalition
September 22, 2011

2. Nuclear power is dirty and deadly
Nuclear power is dirty and deadly. It has a significant carbon footprint and a radioactive footprint of plutonium, uranium, cesium, strontium, tritium.

3. Nuclear technology is slow. .

4. Nuclear power is dangerous.
26 Mark 1 reactors in the US
Fukushima Dai-Ichi
- Station blackout caused irradiated fuel in pools to melt in Units 1-4.
- Accident cleanup + replacement power: $40 billion ?
- Japan has no long-term waste repository.

5. What do we do with irradiated fuel?
- BWR Type 5, Mark II (same as Fukushima Dai-ichi 6)
- On-site dry fuel cask storage (unusual for US)
- Irradiated fuel pool: 558 tons (66% capacity)
- Irradiated fuel pool at Fukushima Dai-ichi 6: 151 tons
Columbia Generating Station near Richland. WA
Move dangerous irradiated fuel out of pools and into hardened, on-site storage (HOSS), away from water and fault lines.
No centralized interim storage.. Research only on waste management. Sierra Club formally signed onto letter of HOSS principles in March 2011.

6. What about final disposal?
Hoss it. Hoss it all. HOSS it now.
- Onkalo waste repository, Finland
- accept waste for 100 years ( )
- must be safe for 100,000 years
- plan seems to be: throw away the maps

7. Nuclear power is expensive.
- "pathfinder project" for Gen III+ globally
- original completion: May 2009, current est: 2013
original cost (turnkey): $4.1 billion, current est: $8.2 billion
Olkiluoto 3, Finland
Billions, huge cost over-runs
CWIP, federal loan guarantees
CWIP, DoE loan guarantees

8. Nuclear power will get more expensive.
The World Nuclear Industry Status Report
Nuclear Power in a Post-Fukushima World
Worldwatch Institute, April 2011 (draft)

9. There are 104 existing nuclear power plants. http://www. nrc

10. There are 29 nuclear power plants proposed and on DoE books.
Proposed reactors in Green River, Utah, ueblo, CO, teo others in CO

11. There are ? number of plants applying to renew their licenses.
Limerick NPP, PA
Columbia NPP, WA
Indian Point NPP, NY
St Lucie NPP, FL amendment
Peach Bottom APS, PA, amendment
Diablo Cyn NPP, CA
The Sierra Club new energy policy calls for nuclear power plants to be closed when their licenses expire.
Close these down!
Could put a map here if we find one.

12. Other miscellaneous and noxious issues
Uranium mining
Mini reactors
Processing and reprocessing
Importing foreign radioactive waste
Rising sea levels
Typhoons, hurricanes and floods
Earthquakes and tsunamis

13. cleaner, safer, cheaper, faster.
Idaho – not usually regarded as a Sun Belt state!
Solar, wind and geothermal energy –
cleaner, safer, cheaper, faster.
Use TN or NV map instead of ID? Add a url for other state insolation maps?

14. 2. Stop the license renewals. 3. Transition off King CONG.
What to Do
1. HOSS it all.
2. Stop the license renewals.
3. Transition off King CONG.
onto solar, wind and geothermal –
cleaner, safer, cheaper, faster.
Plan it; Fund it; Staff it.
4. Join the NIAT
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What did Diane ask us to call spent fuel?