Board of Directors

Sherwood Martinelli has almost 20 years of experience in taking on large polluters, and the utility industry. As founder of Save Wills Creek Water Resources Committee, played instrumental roll in seeing a $70 Million clean up of the Shieldalloy site in Ohio, including remediation of over 200 radioactively contaminated homes. As founder of the Guernsey County American Free Tree, he distributed over 400,000 trees to local schools and civic groups. Sherwood brings passion and knowledge to the Indian Point License Renewal fight. Sherwood publishes Green Nuclear Butterfly.

Heather Burns-DeMelo is president of CT Green Scene and founder of Fairfield County Green Drinks. Heather is the editorial director of allGreen magazine. She has written for print and online publications such as Green Links. She is an instructor at Naugatuck Valley Community College, where she helps to develop and grow environmentally-based curriculum for the adult education program. She speaks frequently to the public about green living and business. While living in Thailand and working as a Scuba Dive Master, Heather spearheaded a community outreach program called Save the Reef, which educated local fishermen about the negative environmental impact caused by over fishing. She lives with her husband and two children in Woodbury, Connecticut.

FUSE USA Advisory Board Members

John LeKay is an artist, environmentalist, the publisher of Heyoka magazine and co-founder of the Silkwood Project along with Lakota anti-nuclear activist Harold One Feather. The Silkwood Project is an educational vehicle and database of information for anyone interested in the life cycle of uranium, from its mining, depletion, use in nuclear energy reactors, weaponisation and its potential for toxic contamination, cause of uranium syndrome, cancers and birth defects. Its mission is to raise international awareness concerning the increasing dangers and toxic levels of uranium in the environment of South Dakota, particularly in the Black Hills, Harding County, Rock Creek, Standing Rock and Pine Ridge Indian reservations.

Sam Vail is a renewable energy advocate who once worked at the Indian Point nuclear power plant for Underwater Construction in Essex, CT. Sam now does solar and geothermal installations with architect Darek Shapiro for Energy Independence Now in Stamford, CT.

John McDowell is the director of Camp Hill Farm in Pomona, NY and the co-founder of the Rockland Farm Alliance.

Jon Nowinski is director of the Smoking Gun Research Agency, currently researching Plum Island, a biological research lab located on a small island just off the coasts of Connecticut.

Martha Roth is a midwife. She provides healthcare to women of all ages. She has lived in Rockland County since 1995 with her husband, actor, Bill Irwin and their 16 year old son.

Jen Laird White has worked in television for twenty five years as a documentary and news producer as well as a correspondent for CBS News. She is currently active in local and national politics from both an advisory and a fund raising standpoint. She is the founder of the Nyack Park Conservancy, an organization devoted to the protection and improvement of land in the areas surrounding Nyack, NY. and serves on the Park Commission of Nyack. She is also active in establishing educational environmental programming for children.

David Bedell is secretary for the Fairfield County chapter of the Connecticut Green Party and does research for Greenburbs. He's also volunteered countless hours to Mothball Millstone.

Indian Point  Flow Chart Radiologic Contaminants
  

Who We Are

FUSE USA is a loose knit coalition of anti-nuclear activists from all over the United States who have come to realize that Indian Point, being so close to Manhattan, is the most vulnerable nuclear power plant in the country.

Since 2000, the NRC has rubber stamped new superceding operating licenses for 48 old reactors, that should have all been decommissioned long ago... We're playing Russian roulette with the lives of millions, none more so than Indian Point on the shores of the Hudson River, so close to one of the busiest Metropolitan centers on Earth. It's time to rethink our energy options.

The FUSE USA team of board members and advisors have years of combined experience in the anti-nuclear movement and the green consumer culture. We see this as one singular issue. Our expertise has made FUSE USA one of the most effective new anti-nuclear groups in America.

Photograph of one of the significant structural cracks at Indian Point that is leaking Tritium into the Hudson River.