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http://www.newson6.com/story/14536815/decades-later-claremore-womans-fight-against-black-fox-plant-still-inspiringRogers County Woman Who Fought Black Fox Plant Left Lasting Legacy
Posted: Thursday, April 28, 2011 7:24 PM EST
Updated: Friday, April 29, 2011 8:59 AM EST
Scott Thompson, News On 6
Carrie Dickerson.ROGERS COUNTY -- It's what those who fought the Black Fox plant in Rogers County all those years ago so feared: that nuclear power was too dangerous. Rallying around a soft-spoken grandmother, they made their point, and American history, at the same time.
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"Carrie could kind of see what could happen, and now we all see what could happen, we see what's happened in Japan," McCullooch said.
The Black Fox reactors were to be the same General Electric boiling water models that stand crippled now in Japan, poisoning the soil, water, air and food supply there with astounding levels of radiation.
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Kept on the defensive for nine years by Carrie, facing staggering cost overruns that would bankrupt the company and a massive rate-hike that would devastate its customers, PSO pulled the plug on Black Fox, making it the only nuclear plant under construction in American history that was stopped by citizen action
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The Carrie Dickerson Foundation website:
http://www.carriedickersonfoundation.com/