Two decades after the defeat of the plans of the now defunct Long Island Lighting Company to build seven to 11 nuclear power plants in Suffolk County, safe-energy activists are concerned that we might again be targeted for nuclear power plants.
This comes amid the biggest push in years for nuclear power in New York State, in the United States, and internationally, as nuclear proponents try to latch on to climate change as a new reason for nuclear power with the claim that it is “carbon-free” or “emissions-free.”
This is untrue especially when the “nuclear fuel chain” is taken into account…