Peoples’ Meeting: Nuclear Energy is not Green or Clean

Join Onondaga Nation community members, Neighbors of the Onondaga Nation, Allies of the Tonawanda Seneca Nation, Food & Water Watch, Alliance for a Green Economy, Nuclear Information and Resource Service, Citizen Action of New York, Frack Action, Syracuse Peace Council, NY Renews, and more for a peoples’ meeting on nuclear energy, the threats it creates, and the carbon emissions crisis that impacts all our lives. Register to attend. Register to attend.

Decades of experience demonstrate that nuclear energy is too toxic, too dangerous, too expensive, and too slow to build to be a climate solution. Additionally, the entire nuclear “cycle” perpetuates environmental injustice. Nuclear power generation is part of a uranium fuel chain which disproportionately impacts Indigenous communities. The process creates highly toxic radioactive waste, some of which is transported through Onondaga Nation land and directly through the city of Syracuse, in violation of treaty agreements between the US and the Haudenosaunee Confederacy. All nuclear reactors (old and new) must also store waste on-site, and there is no long-term plan for storing the waste and no safe way to transport it.