No Nukes News: The Unraveling of Nuclear Energy

Mon Jul 4 18:28:55 EDT 2011

No Nukes News

July 4, 2011

- Human history is full of madness, full of catastrophes. Imagine if we had
nuclear reactors when we fought wars in the past. If you try to consider all
the events that might happen over the years, you start to ask, ‘What are the
benefits of such an effort, especially when you have opportunities to get
electricity in many other ways? – John Perlin
<http://www.miller-mccune.com/science/confessions-of-a-nuclear-power-safety-
expert-32220/> 

- We do not have the technology to deal with such massive levels of
radiation, not now, not anytime soon. The core melts require massive cooling
that will send vast quantities of radioactive water into the global ocean
food chain, local water tables, surrounding soil areas, food crops, and the
global atmosphere for a long time, and a much longer time still to come, for
present and future generations. - Tony Pereira
<http://www.culturechange.org/cms/content/view/745/1/>    

- Nuclear power is uniquely unforgiving. It's the only energy source where
mishap or malice can kill so many people so far away.  - Amory Lovins
<http://www.rmi.org/rmi/>  

- The nuclear power crisis at Japan’s Fukushima power plant has served as a
dreadful reminder that events thought unlikely can and do happen. It has
taken a tragedy of great proportions to prompt some leaders to act to avoid
similar calamities at nuclear reactors elsewhere in the world. But it must
not take another Hiroshima or Nagasaki – or an even greater disaster –
before they finally wake up and recognize the urgent necessity of nuclear
disarmament. – Desmond Tutu
<http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/tutu12/English> 

- A high-risk technology cannot be used over the long term against the will
of citizens who know they're being lied to. The German nuclear phase-out is
a triumph of a grassroots movement that bloomed into a major movement of the
government. – German newspaper
<http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,771797,00.html>  

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SNC takes charge of Canada’s nuclear future 

After 60 years of operation and $21-billion invested, Ottawa is unloading
Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd.’s Candu business for a mere $15-million and
future royalties. 

AECL’s fortunes have been battered by the virtual drying up of international
sales amid stiff competition with global industry giants, and by soaring
cost overruns at key projects. This year’s explosion at Japan’s Fukushima
plant has also cast a pall over the global nuclear industry.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/industry-news/energy-and-r
esources/snc-takes-charge-of-canadas-nuclear-future/article2080430/

Ottawa basically paying SNC to take AECL

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2011/06/29/aecl-sale-snc-weston.html

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Radiation in Our Food

The ocean around large areas of Japan has been contaminated by toxic
radioactive agents including
<http://www.foxnews.com/health/2011/06/29/radiation-in-our-food/> cesium,
iodine, plutonium and strontium. These radioactive agents are accumulating
in sea life. Fish, shellfish and sea vegetables are absorbing this
radiation, while airborne radioactive particles have contaminated land-based
crops in Japan, including spinach and tea grown 200 miles south of the
damaged nuclear plants. Meanwhile, on U.S. soil, radiation began to show up
in samples of milk tested in California, just one month after the plants
were damaged. Radiation tests conducted since the nuclear disaster in Japan
have detected radioactive iodine and cesium in milk and vegetables produced
in California. According to tests conducted by scientists at the UC Berkeley
Department of Nuclear Engineering, milk from grass fed cows in Sonoma County
was contaminated with cesium 137 and cesium 134. Milk sold in Arizona,
Arkansas, Hawaii, Vermont and Washington has also tested positive for
radiation since the accident. Additionally, drinking water tested in some
U.S. municipalities also shows radioactive contamination. Is the fallout
from  <http://www.foxnews.com/health/2011/06/29/radiation-in-our-food/>
Fukushima Daichi falling on us? Yes, it is.

http://www.foxnews.com/health/2011/06/29/radiation-in-our-food/ 

Fukushima children test positive for internal radiation exposure

Traces of caesium-134 and 137 isotopes found in urine tests on 10 children
in city near stricken nuclear power pant

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jun/30/fukushima-children-radiation-tes
ts-caesium?INTCMP=SRCH

Second Japan Nuke... More Dangerous Than Fukushima?

10 minute video interview with Kevin Kamps of Beyond Nuclear
http://www.truth-out.org/thom-hartmann-second-japan-nuke-more-dangerous-fuku
shima/1309353982 

British government's plan to play down Fukushima

Internal emails seen by Guardian show PR campaign was launched to protect UK
nuclear plans after tsunami in Japan

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/jun/30/british-government-plan-pl
ay-down-fukushima

Fukushima spin was Orwellian

Emails detailing how the UK government played down Fukushima show just how
cozy it is with the nuclear industry

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/jul/01/fukushima-emails-governm
ent-nuclear-industry 

Email Japan to say NO to restarting suspended nukes

32 of all 54 reactors in Japan are presently suspended, 11 because of the
earthquake and the others for maintenance. Southern Japan hosts one of the
oldest nuclear power plants. Genkai power plants has four reactors, two of
which have been suspended for a regular checkup. Now the host town, the
power company and the ministry of economy are pushing to get them started
again. People are protesting in front of the power company, of the
prefectural government, and on streets.  In solidarity, please send an email
to the government of Saga prefecture, even just to say you are concerned,
because if an accident occurs, it'll affect the entire world. The email
address is gikai at pref.saga.lg.jp

For more on this see:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/03/world/asia/03japan.html?hp

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Amory Lovins on Nuclear

Nuclear power has died of an incurable attack of market forces and is way
beyond any hope of revival, because the competitors are several fold cheaper
and are getting rapidly more so. The competitors I mean are not other
central power stations (coal or gas-fired, or big hydro); rather, they’re
micropower and efficiency—the big market winners, already bigger than
nuclear power worldwide in both capacity and output.

http://www.corporateknights.ca/article/amory-lovins-nuclear 

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French opinion shifts

A poll published earlier this month showed that three quarters of those
interviewed wanted to exit nuclear energy, against 22 percent who back the
nuclear expansion programme, a stark contrast with pre-Fukushima polls.

http://af.reuters.com/article/energyOilNews/idAFLDE74U1IS20110630

French nuclear power plant explosion heightens safety fears

Blast at EDF's Tricastin power station in Drôme comes days after nuclear
authorities found 32 safety concerns at plant

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jul/04/french-nuclear-power-plant-explo
sion-safety-fears 

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Fort Calhoun, U.S. Nuclear Plant Main Building Underwater, 10 Mile Mandatory
Evacuation Area 

3 minute news report: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zosA6pPH_E

Fukushima Spews, Los Alamos Burns, Vermont Rages and We’ve Almost Lost
Nebraska

The stream of reactor disasters spewing from this dying industry is certain
to escalate.  The toll rises with each leak at Fukushima, every flame at Los
Alamos, each legal brief at Vermont Yankee, every foot of Nebraska
floodwater. 

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/06/29-1

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The Unraveling of Nuclear Energy

http://www.culturechange.org/cms/content/view/745/1/

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The Nuclear Debate – Monbiot vs. Greenpeace

Join a panel of experts in a topical debate on whether we can meet emissions
reductions without the use of nuclear power.

Thur. July 7, live webcast at 1:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. EDT

http://www.thereaction.net/events/y2011/nuclear_debate.aspx

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Ending Nuclear Evil - By Desmond Tutu

We must not tolerate a system of nuclear apartheid, in which it is
considered legitimate for some states to possess nuclear arms but patently
unacceptable for others to seek to acquire them. Such a double standard is
no basis for peace and security in the world.
http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/tutu12/English

The Anti-Nuclear (Weapons) Mountain Is Being Scaled

By Douglas Roche
http://www.wagingpeace.org/articles/db_article.php?article_id=257

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Mike Harris Latest Senior PC to join Ontario's Clean Energy Economy

http://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/Mike-Harris-Latest-Senior-PC-cnw-262087310.
html?x=0

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Price Increase: Culprit is nuclear energy – not renewables

http://www.myvirtualpaper.com/doc/Picton-County-News/pictonjune30/2011062901
/21.html#20

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Solar panel manufacturing plant opens in Scarborough

http://www.insidetoronto.com/news/local/article/1036606--solar-panel-manufac
turing-plant-opens-in-scarborough

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Get your anti-nuclear poster!

http://www.culturechange.org/cms/content/view/752/1/

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Steam Powered Theatre is pleased to announce the premiere of: 

BLOOM 

at the 2011 Toronto Fringe Festival - July 7-17

It is May 21, 1946, at the Los Alamos Research Facility, less than a year
after the atomic bomb levels Hiroshima. Canadian Physicist, Louis Slotin, is
training his replacement. During the testing of a 'demon-core', the highly
reactive centre of a nuclear bomb, the plutonium goes critical and Louis is
exposed to a lethal dose of radiation poisoning. Oh, and his replacement is
sleeping with his wife.

For details, dates, location:
http://www.steampoweredtheatre.com/Site/Home.html 

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Say NO to Nuclear Cost Overruns

Send a letter now to Premier Dalton McGuinty and Conservative Leader Tim
Hudak and ask them for assurances that SNC Lavalin – or any other nuclear
provider – not be allowed to pass its cost overruns onto taxpayers and
ratepayers. It’s your money – make your voice heard now before new nuclear
contracts are signed. http://www.cleanairalliance.org/aecl 

Let’s Stop Burning Coal Now

Send a letter now to Environment Minister John Wilkinson and provincial
party leaders calling for a ban on coal-fired electricity exports.
http://www.cleanairalliance.org/wilkinson_letter 

Sign the  <http://www.ontariosgreenfuture.ca/petition2.php> Petition Calling
for a Moratorium on New Nuclear Projects in ON

 <http://www.ontariosgreenfuture.ca/petition2.php>
http://www.ontariosgreenfuture.ca/petition2.php

And order FREE anti-nuclear and anti-coal leaflets 

They contain postcards to politicians. Courtesy of the Ontario Clean Air
Alliance.

 <http://www.cleanairalliance.org/get_involved_order_pamphlets>
http://www.cleanairalliance.org/get_involved_order_pamphlets 

Thank you for helping get the word out!

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Ontario Clean Air Alliance

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