Come take a little tour of the Prairie Island
Nuclear Facilities with us...

Where the nuclear power reactors are - U.S., Midwest
About the Prairie Island reactors

Problem #1: BROKEN REACTOR COMPONENTS
How a pressurized water reactor works
Northern States Power sues Westinghouse over faulty tubes!
Problems with steam generator tubes
  A nightmare confirmed: steam tube degradation
        is increasingly likely to cause a nuclear meltdown
Chernobyl to Prairie Island - we are all in the zone

Problem #2: ROUTINE NUCLEAR EMISSIONS
Prairie Island routinely emits radioactivity into the environment
A little lesson on radioactivity: how it affects the human body
The difference between high-level and low-level radiation exposure
The effects of low-level radiation exposure

Problem #3: NUCLEAR WASTE: NO SOLUTION
The waste fuel pools are filling up
Dry cask storage: problems guaranteed, and problems unknown
Yucca Mountain, Nevada: not a good place for nuclear waste
Transporting the waste: how safe can 45,000 shipments be?

Problem #4: NUCLEAR RACISM
Most mining and milling of uranium occurs on Indian lands
People of color are also targeted for other uranium processing facilities
Nuclear waste dumps - guess where they want to put them

Problem #5: BAD NUCLEAR ECONOMICS
Anything is cheap if you don't pay the cost
Nuclear power can be phased out

An interview with two of the neighbors

REFERENCES

To order the video Good Nukes... Almost Good Enough click here.
To find out more about the Prairie Island Coalition, click below.

published October 21 2000