Hello, everyone --
The plutonium launch (ie Cassini Space Probe) has been delayed until
wednesday. The clock is ticking.
Please do any or all of the following!
(1) Call President Clinton: 202/456-1111 (9:00am-5:00pm EST only)
(2) Fax President Clinton: 202-456-2461.
(3) E-mail President Clinton: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(4) fax Hillary Clinton: 202-456-6244.
SOME FACTS, courtesy of Women's Action for New Directions (WAND)
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:
**Three out of twenty-four United States Space missions involving
nuclear materials have met with accidents and a Titan IV rocket similar
to the one which is to be launch the Cassini Probe exploded on its
launch pad in 1993.
**NASA estimates that cleanup of large areas of contaminated land in the
event of a launch pad accident would cost $247 million per square mile.
**Safer means, including highway efficient solar cells, exist for
providing the required by the Cassini Probe.
**The Cassini Space Probe will carry 72 pounds of plutonium-238, which
is 280 times more radioactive than the plutonium which is used in
nuclear weapons.
**NASA's own environmental impact statement says that if the Cassini
Probe makes an inadvertent reentry into the Earth's atmosphere during a
planned flyby, five billion of the seven to eight billion people living
on the Earth could be exposed to the radiation from the plutonium
onboard.
Thank you.
-- Gwendolyn
>From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Oct 13 22:15:43 1997
by mizar.usc.edu (8.8.4/8.8.4/usc)
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 97 21:15:37 PDT
From: Gloria Orenstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: LAST MINUTE EFFORT!
In-Reply-To: Your message of Mon, 13 Oct 1997 16:26:38 -0500
