Nuclear is Our Future Pro-nuclear activist group

Nuclear is Our Future is fundamentally an activist organization. We’re here to take action: here’s the action we want to take.

Ongoing Actions:

• Support New Nuclear Power Plants
  30-odd nuclear power plants have been proposed in the last four years. We ask you to support their construction.
  • Proposed New Nuclear Power Plants

  Read our list of current new nuclear power plant projects.

  • Design Licensing Project

  Support the certification of new nuclear power plant designs.

  • Support Advanced CANDU Reactor (ACR) Licensing

  Support the design certification of this Canadian waste-eating reactor.

  • Support Pebble-Bed Modular Reactor (PBMR) Licensing
    Support the design certification of the first pebble-bed reactor.
  • Oppose Reactor Bans

  Their rationales are no longer valid–and really never were. Their effect has been the exact opposite of what was intended. Reactor bans must go.

• Online Pro-Nuclear Activism
  Use the internet as a component of real-world activism.
  • Work With Us

  We’d love your help in getting the word out!

  • Weekly Nuclear Poll

  Take an opinion - Give an opinion.

  • Nuclear Advocacy Webring

  Join our network of pro-nuclear websites.

  • Tools

  Links to online services that we’ve found useful, or that we ourselves provide.

  • Nuclear Mailing Lists

  Sign up for updates from Nuclear is Our Future and others.

  • Books

  How to turn your knowledge into advocacy.

  • Subscriptions

  via RSS to content published by Nuclear is Our Future

• Support Regulatory Reform

The current regulatory structure is the product of industry self-interest and anti-nuclear activism, and badly needs reform along policy objectives.

• Make the Fossil Fuel Industries Clean Up Their Messes

Make the polluters pay.

• Restructure the Department of Energy

The Department of Energy is supporting a disorganized, fragmented, and unfocused development program. It’s time to stop the 60-year vicious cycle of government waste.

• Support the Direct Use of Plutonium In CANDUs (DUPIC) Process

Why do reactor bans cite nuclear waste when there are waste-eating reactors?

• Support a Technical Solution to the Dispute Over Iranian Uranium Enrichment

They haven’t broken any rules and want access to American-style reactor technology that would neutralize any proliferation risk from their existing enrichment facility.

• Support Construction-Work-In-Progress Financing

Allow utilities to apply a per-kilowatt-hour surcharge for Construction Work In Progress (CWIP).

• Oppose Political Influences on Health Physics

There is absolutely no evidence for the 1950s assumption that all radiation causes cancer–and a lot of evidence against it.

• Support Funding for Nuclear Research and Development

We haven’t scratched the surface of what can be done with nuclear energy. Sadly, nuclear technologies don’t get research and development attention, largely because they’re usually planned well enough that they don’t cause urgent problems that need to be solved.

Past Actions:

• Chernobyl+20

Setting the record straight about Chernobyl on the accident’s 20th anniversary.

• Support the Development of the Integral Fast Reactor

The IFR was canceled and has been decommissioned. Restarting the program is no longer possible in the US, and most of the program’s remaining objectives are being achieved in a similar development project in Japan.

• Support PRISM Licensing

GE’s and Argonne’s attempt to apply the IFR design to a power plant was withdrawn from the NRC licensing process soon after it was submitted.

This page was written by Stewart Peterson on May 28, 2009