Forums for a
Nuclear-Free New York
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and renewable energy in New York!
Nuclear Update: What's At Stake
for New Yorkers?
with Fred Harrison, Susan Shapiro​
Amanda Clark and Marley Wiest
Recorded 3.26.26 Moderated by Doug Wood
Why nuclear power is neither low carbon nor emissions-free!
with Dr. Marvin Resnikoff and
attorney Susan Shapiro
Recorded 2.13.26 Moderated by Lance Gould.
Debunking Nuclear "Hopium"
Dr. Gordon Edwards presents the science of "new" nuclear proposals.​
Recorded 2.26.26 Moderated by Doug Wood
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Symposium for Safe & Affordable Energy
with Dr. Mark Z. Jacobson and Joe Mangano,
Recorded 1.15.26 Moderated by Alec Baldwin
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The symposiums are co-sponsored by these organizations: Alliance for Nuclear-Free New York
Grassroots Environmental Education • National Radioactive Waste Coalition • Sierra Nuclear Free Team
Sierra Club Atlantic Chapter • 350NJ-Rockland • Rockland Coalition to End the New Jim-Crow.
5 minute presentation by Mark Z. Jacobson
6 minute presentation by Joe Mangano
Learn more...
• Read Manna Jo Greene's Op-Ed published in the New York Daily News on March 16, 2026
• Read Comments of Sierra Club Atlantic Chapter in response to NYSERDA’s Draft Blueprint for Consideration of Advanced Nuclear Technologies.
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• Read the Sierra Club Nuclear Free Campaign's Fact Sheet - How Nuclear Power Worsens Climate Change
A new Harvard study shows that living near a nuclear power plant "significantly increase(s) cancer incidence." It found residents in zip codes within a 30 kilometer radius of a nuclear power plant had much higher cancer rates, while outside 30 kilometers those rates “declined sharply.” Radiation and Public Health Project is working with the same team at Harvard on a new study, currently under review, of mortality rates near nuclear power plants nationally. (See Joe Mangano video)
Read The Rebuttal
"Nuclear Power:
Fact vs. Fiction"
The U.S. federal government, not New York State, has jurisdiction over radiological health and safety issues. Nuclear expansion in New York would be taking place against a backdrop of unprecedented dismantling of federal nuclear regulation, rubber-stamping and fast-tracking new nuclear projects, and dumbing down radiation exposure standards. As such, it poses threats to New Yorkers’ health and safety that need independent scrutiny.
Indian Point’s reactors in downstate New York are shut down. But Holtec, the current owner in charge of decommissioning it, soon going public and issuing an initial public offering, has proposed renuclearizing the site to boost its perceived value. This would entail misusing Holtec’s current licenses to install and operate small modular reactors on it to power a data center, and/or to restart Indian Point’s shuttered reactors, as Holtec is doing at other nuclear sites it owns. While Governor Hochul issued a statement saying New York State does not support renuclearizing Indian Point, that hasn’t stopped nuclear booster groups from pushing for it and spreading misinformation about the feasibility and impacts of doing so. (See Mark Jacobson video)
Meanwhile, Governor Hochul strongly supports expanding nuclear in upstate New York. She arranged a $33 billion ratepayer subsidy to keep four aging reactors in Oswego and Wayne Counties, already well beyond their designed lifespan (including the oldest and second oldest reactors in the US) operating for another 20 years. She has championed building one or more new nuclear power facilities in upstate New York, and recently signed an agreement with Ontario Power Generation to develop SMRs in New York.