Along with the rest of the world, the NDE staff, Council and members are grieved and concerned about the global disaster unfolding from the explosions at Tepco's Fukushima nuclear reactors in Japan. Many of are allies are equally concerned about the immediate aftermath of these explosions (the radioactive poisoning of Japan and the other populations on earth as the radioactive fallout spreads towards California). And of course we are also concerned about the potential dangers in the Pacific Rim for repeated disasters. There are currently 23 General Electric Mark I reactors in the U.S.--the design that exploded at Fukushima. Mother Earth can always shift her tectonic plates in more dramatic ways, and California (among dozens of other regions) hosts at least 3 coastal nuclear power plants which could be similarly destroyed by natural causes, contaminating more people along the way.

The obvious intelligent choice for Californians and the USA is for decomissioning all nuclear power plants immediately and preparing for long-term SAFE storage of the wastes.

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April 24, 2011: Chernobyl/Fukushima Demonstration