COLUMBIA, MO. -- Several protestors gathered on the Mizzou campus on Tuesday afternoon to speak out against nuclear power.
Tuesday is the 25th anniversary of the 1986 Chernobyl disaster.
Members of a group called Missourians for Safe Energy said nuclear power plants are too dangerous.
They want government leaders to find clean, safe, affordable alternatives.
Demonstrators at the Columbia rally showed their opposition to the construction of Ameren’s proposed Callaway 2 nuclear reactor.
Protestors are against proposed state legislation that has taxpayers underwriting the project.
Missourians for Safe Energy spokesman Mark Haim said, “It’s all about the fact that Ameren wants to maximize their profit rather than maximize their rate payers interests. We really need to re-think how we are doing things to allow them to build a power plant that’s not needed simply because it makes them more money.”
Protestors also remembered the victims who have died or were made ill by Chernobyl and the recent nuclear disaster at the Fukushima plant in Japan.
TV Station Profiles & Public Inspection Files forKRCG