This is not about celebrities.
If this was about celebrities, people would say "What do they know?" and "Their job is to entertain, they should just stay out of politics" and "Who do they think they are?"
So I won't tell you what they know. Instead, I'll tell you what I know.
- Producing tons of radioactive waste (tons per power plant, per year, which then needs to be safely transported and stored and will remain radioactive for tens of thousands of years) is not sustainable, and it is not clean energy.
- Spending billions of taxpayer dollars on nuclear energy as a clean energy option is at best misguided, and at worst a total sham.
The Senate version of the energy bill authorizes essentially unlimited loans to companies building new nuclear power plants in the name of clean energy, when in fact it is nothing of the sort. The are other issues at play, here: the health of employees, environmental effects, the possibility of an accident like the ones at Three Mile Island and Chernobyl, and the potential for nuclear power plants to be used as terror targets ought to be enough to get you thinking.
But I'll tell you what gets me. Congress is willing to spend billions on "clean" energy that is, by definition, not clean, instead of putting their our money where their mouth is and spending that same money to research and develop promising sources of actual clean energy.
That's what I know about nuclear power, but let me tell you something else: those entertainers know a lot more than I do, because they've been thinking about and working on this issue since 1979. Nuke Free has the information you need about what's going down, and about what you can do to stop it.