John McCain Nuclear Power Plant Tour Newport, MI 08/05/08 TRANSCRIPT: PROTESTER: Fermi 3 would pose the same sorts of environmental risks that present and past nuclear plants do. There’s of course a long standing controversy about the exposure to low level radiation over long periods of time. But beyond that, there’s still the threat of catastrophic accident. And what we’ve seen as with the Davis Bessi incident in March of 2002, the catastrophic accidents are still very much a possibility. And in fact the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission testified before Congress in April of 85′ a year before the Chernobyl accident and what the NRC told Congress was that the crude statistical probability of another major accident at a US nuclear plant was 45% over a period of 20 years given 100 reactors operating. So we’re operating 104 reactors in this country and we’re getting close to the 30th anniversary of the 3 mile island accident. So I would say using the NRC’s own testimony to Congress in April of 85′, that we’re at a point where another major accident is imminent. That could be at Fermi 2, Fermi 3 when its constructed, or any one of the reactors now operating in the country. Specific health concerns? Well, cancer. Kevin you want to chime in here? KEVIN CAMPS, BEYOND NUCLEAR: There are multiple proposed uranium mines in the peninsula of Michigan. And as we’ve seen from the Navajo, Pueblo Indian experiences in the South West, Native Americans bare the brunt of the health damage …
