The article critiques efforts led by tech giants like Jeff Bezos and Google to promote small modular nuclear reactors in Oregon, stressing public skepticism rooted in past decisions against nuclear power due to permanent waste disposal concerns. It highlights the ongoing dangers of nuclear waste, exemplified by local sites like Hanford and Trojan, and urges Oregonians to oppose pending legislation HB2410, SB215, and SB216 that could lead to increased nuclear investment in light of unresolved safety and waste concerns.
Oregonians voted against nuclear power expansion in 1980, unless a permanent waste repository were available. Guess what? No permanent repository is in sight.
Proponents claim that this reactor model is safe (very unproven) and downplay that they want tax dollars to subsidize developing this typically costliest energy.
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