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<div><font face="Times" size="+1" color="#000000">PRESS ALERT<br>
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FMI- Contact - Deb Katz 413-339-5781<br>
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Email to - Deb@nukebusters.org
<mailto:Deb@nukebusters.org></font><br>
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<div><font face="Times" size="+1" color="#000000"><u><b>*THREE DAYS OF
FASTING -- Remembering Chernobyl*</b></u></font><br>
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<div><font face="Times" size="+1" color="#000000"><b>Wells Fountain,
Main St, Brattleboro, VT, (in front of the District Court
House)</b></font><font face="Times" color="#000000"><b> &<font
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six miles from the Vermont Yankee reactor <br>
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<div><font face="Times" size="+1" color="#000000"><b>Tuesday April
25</b></font><font face="Times" color="#000000"><b>
&</b></font></div>
<div><font face="Times" size="+1" color="#000000"><b>Wednesday April
26</b></font><font face="Times" color="#000000"><b>
&</b></font></div>
<div><font face="Times" size="+1" color="#000000"><b>Thursday April
27</b></font></div>
<div><font face="Times" size="+1" color="#000000"><b>10 am
- 4 pm</b></font></div>
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</b>Begining April 25, people will engage in a 3-day fast to
commemorate the Chernobyl nuclear reactor's cataclysmic accident on
April 26, 1986; the group of fasters is calling for shutting down
Vermont Yankee and replacing it with safe and sustainable energy.<br>
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<b>This is the twentieth anniversary of the catastrophic accident at
the Chernobyl</b> reactor in the Ukraine, Russia. Due to human error,
the #4 reactor exploded releasing over 400 times more radioactivity
than was released at Hiroshima. The initial explosion returned to
earth as radioactive rain. The destroyed hulk burned for ten days,
contaminating tens of thousands of square miles and forced a million
people from their homes.<br>
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Health and clean-up costs from the accident are estimated to cost
hundreds of billions of dollars and have still not been completed.
Many thousands of contaminated square miles are still uninhabitable.
The radioactive remains of #4 reactor continues to smolder beneath the
sarcophagus, a decaying concrete-and steel-crypt that now threatens to
collapse. Within this decaying shelter an estimated 200 tons of
nuclear fuel remain and continue to threaten the surrounding
environment with dangerous levels of radioactive contaminants entering
the air and water.<br>
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<i><b>"This nuclear nightmare created by simple human error stands
as a warning. There is no remedy for this accident. There is no way to
prevent human error. And there is no safe way to store high level
radioactive waste for tens of thousands of years</b></i><b>," said
Hattie Nestel.<br>
<i> "For these reasons I advocate closing Vermont Yankee, a 34
yr old dangerous reactor threatening the health and safety of all New
England. In its place I envision communities developing
conservation to decrease our energy needs and local,
clean, affordable, safe and sustainable energy. I am initiating
a three-day, water only fast. On April 25, 26 and 27 from 10am
until 4pm I will be in front of the Wells Fountain on Main St. in
Brattleboro, which is less than 6 miles from the Vermont Yankee
reactor and I invite everyone to join me."<br>
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</i>Sincerely, Hattie Nestel, Athol, MA</b></font><br>
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color="#000000">Hattieshalom@verizon.net
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<div><font size="-1" color="#FF0000"><i>"We don't have to wait
for some grand utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of
presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in
defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous
victory." </i></font><font size="-1" color="#000000"><i>
................. Howard Zinn</i></font></div>
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