Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power In Space Statement
In mourning the tragedy of the Columbia shuttle, the Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power In Space stresses that it came as NASA has been moving to greatly expand its program to use nuclear power in space and underscores why deadly atomic materials must not be used in space operations.
In what it calls Project Prometheus , NASA seeks to broaden its $1 billion Nuclear Systems Initiative begun last year and include development of a nuclear-propelled rocket.
Moreover, NASA is planning for additional nuclear-powered space probe launches and to put atomic power to other space uses, noted Global Network Coordinator Bruce Gagnon.
“While Columbia did not appear to have a nuclear payload on-board, consider the consequences if a rocket powered by a nuclear reactor came down in pieces over Texas or elsewhere on earth,” said Professor Karl Grossman, professor of journalism at the State University of New York and author of “The Wrong Stuff: The Space Program’s Nuclear Threat To Our Planet,” narrator of “Nukes In Space” television documentaries and a Global Network board member.
In mourning the tragedy of the Columbia shuttle, the Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power In Space stresses that it came as NASA has been moving to greatly expand its program to use nuclear power in space and underscores why deadly atomic materials must not be used in space operations.
In what it calls Project Prometheus , NASA seeks to broaden its $1 billion Nuclear Systems Initiative begun last year and include development of a nuclear-propelled rocket.
Moreover, NASA is planning for additional nuclear-powered space probe launches and to put atomic power to other space uses, noted Global Network Coordinator Bruce Gagnon.
“While Columbia did not appear to have a nuclear payload on-board, consider the consequences if a rocket powered by a nuclear reactor came down in pieces over Texas or elsewhere on earth,” said Professor Karl Grossman, professor of journalism at the State University of New York and author of “The Wrong Stuff: The Space Program’s Nuclear Threat To Our Planet,” narrator of “Nukes In Space” television documentaries and a Global Network board member.