April 20th, 2011
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Author: To the ire of a handful of activist groups, the CEO of the country’s largest operator of nuclear reactors in the country, Chicago’s Exelon Corp., will speak at an Earth Day conference in Madison today.
John Rowe
John Rowe, also a former chairman of the Nuclear Energy Institute, a group promoting the nuclear power industry, will speak on the topic of “Natural Gas: Queen and Not Just for a Day” this morning at the Earth Day conference hosted by UW-Madison’s Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies.
Three advocacy groups – the Wisconsin Network for Peace and Justice, Wisconsin Physicians for Social Responsibility and Madison-based Family Farm Defenders – sent out a statement earlier this week promising to leaflet outside the conference.
Exelon’s nuclear division operates “approximately 20 percent of the U.S. nuclear industry’s power capacity” with 10 plants in Illinois, Pennsylvania and New Jersey, according to its website.
Pam Kleiss, executive director of Wisconsin Physicians for Social Responsibility Wisconsin, says in the statement, “The radioactive waste produced by nuclear reactors remains toxic for tens of thousands of years, much longer than any corporation, Exelon included, could possibly guarantee public and environmental safety.”
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