Chris Williams of VCAN & VYDA: "Resisting Entergy, Rogue Nuclear Corporation"
January 16, 2014 
Yard signs created by Michigan Safe Energy Future--Kalamazoo Chapter
Entergy Nuclear: Resisting a Rogue Corporation and its Radioactive Risks
A presentation by Chris Williams of Vermont Citizens Action Network as well as Vermont Yankee Decommissioning Alliance
Thursday, January 16, 2014, 6:30 to 9:00 PM,
Lake Michigan College,
125 Veterans Blvd., Room 141
South Haven, MI 49090
(For directions to campus, location of parking, etc.,
see: http://www.lakemichigancollege.edu/SH)
Come learn about Entergy Nuclear’s dirty dozen atomic reactors, including the problem-plagued Palisades near South Haven. Chris Williams is a leader of the ongoing, highly successful grassroots campaign to shutdown Entergy's dangerously degraded Vermont Yankee atomic reactor (a Fukushima Daiichi twin design). Having stopped proposed new reactors in Indiana during his 25 years of service as Executive Director of Citizen Action Coalition, he will show how community organizing can stop dirty, dangerous, and expensive atomic reactors, and replace them with efficiency and renewables like wind and solar.
Chris Williams, is a long time sustainable energy policy activist. He is currently organizer for the Vermont Citizens Action Network, a grassroots organization working to close the Vermont Yankee nuclear station and replace it with sustainable energy generation. Williams has a long professional history working with public interest organizations. For 25 years he was the executive director for Citizens Action Coalition of Indiana, a not for profit consumer and environmental advocacy organization. CAC conducts extensive grassroots public education campaigns concerning, public utility regulation, energy policy, environmental policy, and the preservation of family farms.
Co-sponsored by Michigan Safe Energy Future (http://michigansafeenergyfuture.com),
Beyond Nuclear (www.beyondnuclear.org),
and Don’t Waste Michigan (http://dwmi.homestead.com).
For more info, contact Bette Pierman, Michigan Safe Energy Future, (269) 369-3993 or
Kevin Kamps, Beyond Nuclear, (240) 462-3216
Besides Palisades (a Pressurized Water Reactor, PWR), Entergy owns and operates several GE BWR Mark Is, identical in design to Fukushima Daiichi Units 1 to 4. They are: FitzPatrick, NY; Pilgrim, MA; and Vermont Yankee. In addition, Entergy operates the Mark I at Cooper, NE, on behalf of its owner, the Nebraska Public Power District.