Why do utilities advertise nuclear power plants as safe?
Obviously, there is a puzzling contradiction between the utilities’ advertisements which claim radioactive power plants are wonderfully safe, and the utilities’ testimony to Congress that they would not build them unless Congress relieved them of almost all financial responsibility for accidents. If “nukes” are as safe as they claim, why do they worry about financial responsibility for accidents? If the utilities won’t even risk their dollars on the safety of nuclear power plants, why should the people have to risk their lives? We should not wait for the Price-Anderson Act to expire in 1977. Repeal now is a minimum objective • Is a move against nuclear electricity a move against progress? Progress in technology might be defined as something which enhances human health and survival. The one technology which has the ability to pollute this planet permanently is hard to consider as progress. We’ve spent billions on nuclear research, we’re buying nightmares for generations to come, and for
