Winds of Change Newsletter, February 2006     See sidebar for table of contents

OVECs Annual Meeting and Spaghetti Dinner Fund-Raiser

5 p.m. April 22, St. Cloud Commons, 17th St. W., Huntington, WV
$5 suggested donation, but all are welcome

Bring your appetite and join us April 22 for a family-friendly evening of great food, entertainment, and camaraderie. Its OVECs annual meeting and spaghetti dinner fund-raiser!

Meet other OVEC members, tell us what is on your mind, nominate someone or yourself for the OVEC board and help us recognize our outstanding volunteers. And, enjoy some authentic Italian cuisine prepared by Eric Fout.

Well have live music, activities for the kids and a virtual flyover of mountaintop removal sites for those who are up for viewing the devastation on what will otherwise be a fun spring evening.

If you can, please bring a dessert to share. Mark Your Calendar Save the Date Join Us!

They Say Nuke Like Its a Good Thing

According to the Wall Street Journal and Washington Post, the Bush administration plans to announce a $250 million initiative to reprocess spent nuclear fuel, a first step toward reversing a 1970s policy that rejected reprocessing as too dangerous to pursue.

Thats part of Bushs effort to jump-start the nuclear-power industry. Under the plan, the US would take spent radioactive fuel from foreign countries and use a new process to reprocess it here.

The Bush proposal, tentatively called the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership, would give U.S. vendors, such as General Electric Co., opportunities to sell nuclear-power reactors and nuclear fuel to developing nations.

Thomas B. Cochran, a nuclear physicist at the Natural Resources Defense Council, called the new reprocessing technology uneconomical, unreliable, unsafe and unworkable.