It's time: demand permanent shutdown of GE Mark I reactors!

A call to action from Michael Mariotte, Executive Director of Takoma Park-based advocacy group Nuclear Information and Resource Service (NIRS):

There are 23 nuclear reactors currently operating in the United States using the same General Electric Mark I design as those that have failed so catastrophically at Fukushima.

The flaws in this design are fundamental, cannot be fixed, and have been documented for 40 years now. They have led to containment building explosions at three of the Fukushima reactors, the exposure of irradiated fuel pools to the environment and enormous radiation releases.

It is time to close them, permanently. Please take a moment to tell that to President Obama, your Congressmembers, and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC).

Take action.