Staff Report
Published Jan. 13, 2009
Local environmental groups opposing two new nuclear reactors are bringing in help from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Singer-guitarist Bonnie Raitt will headline an anti-nuclear fundraiser March 21 at Columbia’s Township Auditorium.
Funds raised will help support the efforts of the S.C. Chapter of the Sierra Club, Friends of the Earth – South Carolina, the Nuclear Information and Resource Service Southeast and Nuclear Watch South. Their efforts include a push to block licensing of two new reactors at the V.C. Summer power plant in Fairfield County and their opposition to plutonium reprocessing at the Savannah River Site.
The state’s Public Service Commission is considering the request from S.C. Electric & Gas to begin construction of the two reactors, which also will provide power for Santee Cooper. Federal licensing has not taken place.
Raitt is a longtime environmental and anti-nuclear activist. She won four Grammy awards in 1990 for her album Nick of Time.
