Opposition to Nuclear Energy
PlasticFreeRestaurants.Org was a cosigner on an April 2021 letter to President Joe Biden that asked the administration to promote weather dependent wind and solar power systems and “end the fossil fuel era.” The letter also advised the president to “Phase out nuclear energy as an inherently dirty, dangerous and costly energy source.” 1
Nuclear power plants produce no carbon dioxide or other greenhouse gas emissions, and from 1990 until 2021 accounted for 20 percent of American electricity production—the largest source of zero carbon electricity in the United States. 2 An October 2018 proposal from The Nature Conservancy noted that zero-carbon nuclear plants produced 7.8 percent of total world energy output and recommended reducing carbon emissions by increasing nuclear capacity to 33 percent of total world energy output. 3 A 2020 analysis from Our World in Data reported that nuclear energy “results in 99.9% fewer deaths than brown coal; 99.8% fewer than coal; 99.7% fewer than oil; and 97.6% fewer than gas,” making it “just as safe” as wind and solar power production. 4 The U.S. Department of Energy has concluded that “nuclear energy produces more electricity on less land than any other clean-air source” and that it would require “more than 3 million solar panels to produce the same amount of power as a typical commercial reactor or more than 430 wind turbines.” 5
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All-time grants received statistics from Candid dataset:
- Total Grant Value: $87,716
- Number of Grants: 12
- Number of Funders: 9
Selection of highest value grants received from the last seven years:
All-time grants given statistics from Candid dataset:
- Total Grant Value: $18,954
- Number of Grants: 3
- Number of Recipients: 2
Selection of highest value grants given from the last seven years:
| Amount | Year | Funder | Subject |
|---|---|---|---|
| $10,299 | 2024 | Clean Water Fund | Reimbursement for purchase of reusable food ware items granted by Clean Water Fund to a total of 19 restaurants, 6 senior centers, one soup kitchen, and four other businesses, resulting in the elimination of 1,977,703 single-use plastic food ware items weighing more than 23,660 pounds. |
| $8,655 | 2022 | Clean Water Fund | Reimbursement for purchase of reusable food ware items granted by Clean Water Fund to a total of 49 restaurants, resulting in the elimination of 5,375,563 single-use plastic food ware items. |
| $0 | 2023 | Fremont Unified School District | The purpose of this grant was the purchase of 3,200 stainless steel trays, 1,226 stainless steel spoons, and 624 stainless steel forks for five elementary schools that eliminated their single-use plastic utensils and single-use PFAS-tainted sugarcane-based compartment trays. It should be noted here that the $16,000 spent by Plastic Free Restaurants on the 3,200 trays was money spent in 2022 (not 2023). The FUSD grant/contribution from Plastic Free Restaurants was made in 2023, but the bulk of the money was spent the year before (and kept as a stockpile of trays at the manufacturer's headquarters). |
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Opposition to Nuclear Energy
There are more than 700 nonprofits and other advocacy groups in the United States that oppose the use of carbon free nuclear energy. …