New England governors pledge nuclear support

But fail to provide considerations of the expansion of  the production of high-level nuclear waste

New England’s governors (two Republicans and four Democrats) have signed a joint statement recklessly condemning their region to the extended operation of dangerously aging nuclear reactors and the deployment of expensive and untested new ones.  

Moreover, Republican governors Kelly Ayotte (NH), Phil Scott (VT) and Democrats Maura Healey (MA), Janet Mills (ME), Ned Lamont (CT) and Dan McKee (RI) failed to account for the simultaneous expansion of the  long-term and mounting threat of unmanaged high-level radioactive waste.   Since the nuclear energy and weaponry technology’s inception, it has not yet conceived or demonstrated a scientifically valid or community accepted plan to isolate it from the biosphere for tens of thousands of years.

Indeed, the New England public demonstrated its opposition by making the distinct connection between the immorality of passing along nuclear power’s unresolved poisoned legacy to future generations and the environmental crime to continue generating highly radioactive nuclear waste.

(Photo credit: The US Department of Energy selection in January 1986 of Mt. Cardigan in southwestern New Hampshire as a candidate site for the nation’s second deep geological high-level radioactive waste repository in the granite pluton, Wikimedia Commons, Ken Gallager, May 2004)