At 4:45 p.m. Thursday, six activists with Blue Ridge Earth Fist, Rising Tide North America, and Nuclear Watch South were arrested for taking over the Dominion Resource's North Anna nuclear power visitor center in Mineral, Virginia.

Earlier in the afternoon, in the spirit of Martin Luther King, activists staged an empowering display of non-violent civil disobedience. Protesters held signs and banners inside of the visitor's center in a theatrical display of resistance to the nuclear industry and refused to leave by engaging in a sitting in.

The groups involved say this action was intended to bring attention to the fact that nuclear power is a false solution to climate change. Protesters demanded Dominion Resources immediately abandon all plans for the construction of a third reactor at the North Anna power station and cease nuclear proliferation in the southeast.

"Nuclear reactors are cost prohibitive, slow to build, and have an ecological footprint that is several times larger than that of wind, solar and other efficiency technologies," says Mary Olson, with Nuclear Watch South. "Every dollar spent on nuclear proliferation is money lost on safer, sustainable methods of generation."

Louisa country resident, Paxus Calta, was among the six demonstrators who remained in the visitor center until he was removed by the police.

"We chose to take non-violent direct action because Dominion and the federal government have completely failed to address the climate crisis," says Calta.

"We are here to serve notice on the so-called 'nuclear renaissance' that the nuclear movement is alive and well," says Glenn Carroll, coordinator of Nuclear Watch South.

Dominion owns four nuclear power reactors in Virginia, and is vying for federal subsidies to put their nuclear reactors online. Dominion is also expanding the build-out of coal fired power plants with efforts to build a new coal plant in Wise County, which has been widely protested.

The Louisa County Sheriff's Office has the six protesters in custody.