Zwentendorf, A Nuclear Plant that Will Never Be Turned On
By Donella Meadows
–March 19, 1987–
On the bank of the Danube 20 miles northwest of Vienna stands a completed nuclear power plant, loaded with fuel, ready to start up. It has stood there, just so, for 9 years, while the Austrians argue about what to do with it. The most popular plan is to turn it into a museum for obsolete [...]
How to Get Along with Seabrook
By Donella Meadows
–October 23, 1986–
If the Seabrook nuclear power plant does not open soon, we are told, there will be brownouts all over New England, maybe as soon as next summer.
That’s the kind of false choice the power companies have been offering us all along. Go along with the plan (Seabrook) or suffer some dire consequence (brownouts), as if no [...]
We’re All Downwind from Seabrook
By Donella Meadows
–August 7, 1986–
Have you ever wondered what drives the people who are activists, who speak up and get involved? For instance, the folks who demonstrate against the Seabrook nuclear power plant — why do they do it?
On July 19 ten members of New Hampshire’s McLane family stood at the Seabrook gate. They carried signs saying “3 GENERATIONS OF [...]
Good News in the East, Bad News in the West
By Donella Meadows
–June 12, 1986–
The Chernobyl accident was a story about nuclear power and also a story about how both East and West distorted the story, each in a different direction.
Western news reports of Chernobyl began with exaggerated estimates of the number of deaths. Later the big story was the refusal of the Soviet Union to release information about the [...]
