Nuclear Energy Policy: Update for the Gulf Coast

Date: 
Tuesday, January 17, 2012 - 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Location: 
University of South Florida College of Public Health Administration Building - Room 2018

University of South Florida College of Public Health
12901 Bruce B Downs Blvd, Tampa, FL 33612

This event is free and open to the public.
 

Join us as regional experts, Mary Olson, Director of the Southeast Office Nuclear Information and Resource Service (NIRS) and Mandy Hancock, High Risk Energy Organizer for Southern Alliance for Clean Energy, discuss the latest controversy surrounding the proposed building of a nuclear power plant in Levy County, updates to the broken Crystal River Nuclear Power Plant and the cost recovery plan recently approved by the Florida Public Service Commission.

Mary Olson serves as Southeast Regional Coordinator for Nuclear Information and Resource Service (www.nirs.org), a national organization based in the DC area. She is the Lead Intervener on the federal licensing process for two new nuclear power plants proposed by Progress Energy Florida (soon to be Duke Energy) in Levy County. Trained as a biologist she has a firm commitment to protecting the waters of the Nature Coast as the basis of protecting life in this biologically diverse area. In addition to the Levy County intervention, Olson leads a national network of grassroots activists concerned about radioactive waste policy, radiological impacts and in October 2011 published a landmark paper, Atomic Radiation: More Harmful to Women.

Mandy Hancock is the High Risk Energy Organizer for Southern Alliance for Clean Energy, (www.cleanenergy.org) working with ally organizations and students to prevent new nuclear reactors in the Southeast. She initially joined the team in 2008 as the Florida Campus Organizer for the Southern Energy Network. Mandy earned her Bachelor of Arts degree from Valdosta State University where she majored in Anthropology and Sociology. She was an active organizer on campus, helped found the Georgia state campus network, and led organizing for the 2008 Southeast Student Renewable Energy Conference. As the High Risk Energy Organizer, Mandy advocates a carbon and nuclear free future. She currently lives in Gainesville, Florida.