In the mid-70s SftP cautioned against the ways that nuclear power was being promoted as a safe and environmentally clean alternative to coal . In May 1976 the organization published a pamphlet arguing that the push for nuclear energy in the US over solar and other cleaner , cheaper alternatives benefitted the Atomic-Industrial complex and not the general public . In the 1980s , especially in the wake of such disasters as Three Mile Island , SftP questioned the environmental safety of nuclear energy and the toxic waste it produces
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