We are now fighting to regain control. This rural community hosts two nuclear power stations seventeen miles apart. Franklin is a poor county in New England. Our sacrifice is evidenced by an epidemic of disease which includes elevated rates of cancers, mortality, and Down syndrome. It is unacceptable to force people to choose between immediate economic survival and the sacrifice of future generations.
Nuclear power is a dirty technology and contaminates everything it contacts.
Before a reactor goes on line, it creates waste with the mining of uranium. Once operational, this waste is both stored on site for shipment to contaminate another community or released to the adjacent environment. No amount of radiation exposure is safe. The dangers of exposure to radiation have been largely ignored. The focus of danger has been the nuclear accident.