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Beginning very early Saturday morning, October 6, thousands of people will join in a mass nonviolent occupation of the Seabrook nuclear plant construction site. The Coalition for Direct Action at Seabrook, an outgrowth of the Clamshell Alliance, called the occupation. Local Clam groups around New England are the main sponsors, and over 80 other groups around the nation have endorsed the action. The goal of the occupation is to enter the plant site and physically prevent further construction by remaining there indefinitely. Our strength lies in our numbers, and in the clarity of our vision-- to create, with the help...
Seabrook residents have twice voted against the plant in town meetings. Seven neighboring towns have also voted to join Seabrook in upholding their traditional right to home-rule--local self-determination in some areas of jurisdiction, including whether to locate a nuke in town. This right has been totally overrun. New England residents have fought through years of regulatory and licensing procedures to stop the plant, but after numerous court orders to halt construction--and subsequent higher court overrulings of these orders--construction continues at the rate of three shifts...
...privately-owned "public utility", PSCo (Public Service Company of New Hampshire), requires up to 300,000 gallons of water daily construction. Seabrook in recent years has had a chronic water shortage, and the town and neighboring Hampton Falls have voted not to sell water to the plant. The company continues to use all the water it wants to. All the surrounding towns have voted against allowing transport of radioactive wastes through their communities, but the project goes on. New Hampshire residents voted out their knee-jerk rightwing governor, Meldrim Thompson, almost solely on the issue of CWIP (Construction Work...
...back when the general public was relatively unaware of the dangers of nuclear power, the Clamshell Alliance formed as a loose coalition of grass-roots antinuclear groups throughout New England, united in calling for an end to the Seabrook plant and the shutdown of nuclear plants in New England and across the nation. Sharing a common perception that the nuclear regulatory process had become a farce, Clamshell concluded that only direct citizen action could stop nuclear power...
Harling said the MIT reactor studies beta and gamma particles themselves, rather than using them for energy, and its reactor produces only one-600th of the wattage of a commercial plant...