The company said that the deepwater horizon oil spill is yet another reminder of the toll Americans pay for their energy with the coal killing miners and polluting streams and the air.
Oil production can be dangerous, while Americans’ dependence on foreign petroleum sends billions of dollars a year to other countries, according to the company.
Similarly, natural gas production and hydraulic fracturing (‘fracking’) have raised concern about contaminating local water supplies with toxic chemicals.
AEHI CEO Don Gillispie said that there’s a perception that nuclear power plants are catastrophes waiting to happen, but that perception is not supported by the facts.
“America’s nuclear energy industry has achieved a positive safety record with no deaths or injuries from radiation in its history, including the Three Mile Island incident,” Gillispie.
“Worker safety in nuclear plants stands heads and shoulders above any other US industrial sector, as measured by lost-time accidents.”
