S.C. Sierra Club Calls for Cancellation of V.S.Summer Nuclear Units in Favor of Less Costly Alternatives

New Analysis Shows Choice of Nuclear Will Cost Ratepayers Billions More Than Other Options

The PSC will offer an evening public comment opportunity, to speak about the project, 6PM Tuesday October 2, 2012, at the Commission Hearing Room, 101 Executive center Drive, Columbia, SC 29210. I-20, Exit #63 - Located just off Bush River Rd.

Columbia, SC. - The Sierra Club will make the case next week at a Public Service Commission hearing  that South Carolina Electric & Gas (SCE&G) ratepayers would save  billions of dollars over the next forty years if the construction of the V.C. Summer Nuclear Plant Units 2 & 3 is stopped and SCE&G meets its ratepayers’ needs for electricity with less costly alternatives.

Radiation from Japan's leaking Fukushima nuclear plant has caused mutations in some butterflies and damaged the local environment, though humans seem relatively unaffected, researchers say.

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/environment/fukushima-radiation-causes-insect-mutations-researchers-20120817-24cy2.html#ixzz23pJiko1h