DOW & NUKES: Lessons unlearned 40 years on

DOW & NUKES: Lessons unlearned 40 years on

By the mid-1980s, Dr. Mary Sinclair (pictured), co-founder of Don’t Waste Michigan, had helped lead the movement to victory, against Consumers Power’s Midland nuclear power plant, blocking the partially-built Nuclear Leaning Tower of Pisa twin reactors. They would have largely electrified and provided industrial steam for Dow Chemical Corp. Later, Dow’s CEO invited Dr. Sinclair to lunch, to thank her (privately, but never publicly) for stopping the project, which would have been a headache. Fast forward four decades, and now Dow Chemical has unlearned such lessons. It proposes to build four experimental Pebble Bed Reactors in Long Mott, Texas. San Antonio Bay Waterkeeper has stepped up to fight it, the first intervention against the construction of a Small Modular Reactor (SMR) in the United States.

READ MORE: San Antonio Bay Estuarine Waterkeeper press release

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