As it was said (and sang) in 1979, plutonium is forever…with thousands of years of radioactivity from nuclear fission (especially plutonium 239). Jeff Bezos—proving again that he is not Democracy’s friend—and his colleagues at Google are lobbying our Legislature to buy into the costly scam of small modular nuclear reactors. Proponents claim that this reactor model is safe (very unproven) and downplay that they want tax dollars to subsidize developing this typically costliest energy, so that we can have more data centers (hear those electric wires sing) and AI. (But don’t worry—if a Fukushima happens, the taxpayers help pay the cost, under the Price-Anderson act!) Oregonians voted against nuclear power expansion in 1980, unless a permanent waste repository were available. Guess what? No permanent repository is in sight. Think about it as you windsail near Hanford on the Columbia, or as you drive by the Trojan waste holding area on the highway through Rainier. Urge your state representative to not support HB2410 and your state senator not to support SB215 or SB216. (Right now, HB2410 is under review by the Ways and Means Committee, co-chaired by Kate Lieber and Tawna Sanchez—you can write them too!) TO LEARN MORE: Columbia Riverkeeper, which has been keeping its eyes on Hanford’s leaking tanks, firmly opposes such legislation (https://www.columbiariverkeeper.org/2025/keep-oregon-nuclear-free/). You can also track Oregon no-nukes activism at https://stopnuclearworkgroup.org. Re-energize with these 1979 No-Nukes favorites: “Plutonium is Forever!” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ce350CClJts) or “Power” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKJ_73_8kzo)