Tribes, environmentalists gather forces against Amazon’s Northwest nuclear plan

Chuck Johnson was 25 years old when he helped bring Oregon’s nuclear energy industry to a sudden halt. Fresh out of college, Johnson helped lead signature gathering and field organizing to pass Ballot Measure 7, which banned all new nuclear power plants in the state until the U.S. had a federally licensed permanent disposal facility. When the Oregon’s only nuclear energy facility was closed in 1992, the measure effectively ensured that nothing would take its place unless major changes happened.

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