No Nukes News: nuclear costs as much as solar

Tue Jun 7 15:02:23 EDT 2011

No Nukes News

June 7, 2011

"Usually one does not recognize historic moments if one is too close to
them. It's a label that should be used sparingly in any case. But this is
one: An industrialized country now has a roadmap for switching to a
sustainable energy supply, moving beyond dangerous and expensive nuclear
power and dirty coal. That has never happened before. It is a step in the
right direction -- and the world is watching." - In an editorial titled "A
Moment Like the Fall of the Berlin Wall," the left-leaning Die Tageszeitung
writes about Germany's plan to shut down all their nuclear power plants by
2022

"Is the minor convenience of allowing the present generation the luxury of
doubling its energy consumption every 10 years' worth the major hazard of
exposing the next 20,000 generations to this lethal waste?" -
<http://www.earthisland.org/journal/index.php/eij/article/dont_mini-mize_the
_dangers_of_nuclear_power> David Brower

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New Nuclear Costs as Much as Solar Today

Nuclear Expensive and Uninsurable - by Paul Gipe

The results of the CEC study are startling. Most renewable technologies
today, even solar photovoltaics (solar PV), generate electricity for less
than nuclear power in 2018.

Thus, the cost to insure a nuclear reactor - at a minimum - would cost as
much as the electricity itself from a nuclear plant built in California in
2018.

<http://thinkprogress.org/romm/2011/06/06/237150/stunner-new-nuclear-costs-a
s-much-as-german-solar-power-today-and-up-to-0-34kwh-in-2018/>
http://thinkprogress.org/romm/2011/06/06/237150/stunner-new-nuclear-costs-as
-much-as-german-solar-power-today-and-up-to-0-34kwh-in-2018/ 

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Fukushima cleanup could cost up to $250 billion 

Kazumasa Iwata, president of the Japan Center for Economic Research, a
private think tank, estimates the cost of the Fukushima Daiichi accident
could range from 71 to 259 billion dollars.  The estimate includes $54
billion to buy up all land within 20 kilometres of the plant, $8 billion in
compensation to local residents, and $9 to $188 billion to scrap the
Fukushima Daiichi reactors. 

<http://www.nuclearsafety.gc.ca/eng/mediacentre/updates/march-11-2011-japan-
earthquake.cfm#June_3_2011>
http://www.nuclearsafety.gc.ca/eng/mediacentre/updates/march-11-2011-japan-e
arthquake.cfm#June_3_2011 

Radiation Understated After Quake, Japan Says

Japan said Monday that radioactive emissions from the stricken Fukushima
Daiichi nuclear power plant in the early days of the March 11 earthquake and
tsunami disaster might have been more than twice as large as a previous
estimate, suggesting the accident was more grave than the government had
publicly acknowledged.

<http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/07/world/asia/07japan.html?ref=energy-enviro
nment>
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/07/world/asia/07japan.html?ref=energy-environ
ment 

Tepco Failed to Disclose Scale of Fukushima Radiation Leaks

<http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-05-27/tepco-faces-massive-problem-contai
ning-radioactive-water-at-fukushima.html>
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-05-27/tepco-faces-massive-problem-contain
ing-radioactive-water-at-fukushima.html 

Leaked isotopes likely to affect marine ecosystems more than terrestrial
ones.

 <http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110527/full/news.2011.326.html>
http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110527/full/news.2011.326.html

Japanese seniors volunteer for Fukushima 'suicide corps' 

"My generation, the old generation, promoted the nuclear plants. If we don't
take responsibility, who will?" 

<http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/05/31/japan.nuclear.suicide/index
.html>
http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/05/31/japan.nuclear.suicide/index.
html

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Germany to shut down nuclear power plants by 2022

Excellent coverage on CTV News Channel (May 30 2011) of the German
Government's decision to eliminate nuclear power by 2022, and implications
for Canada and the world. 5 news videos, each interviewing different energy
experts

<http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/Canada/20110530/coalition-agrees-nuclear-free-ger
many-by-2022-110530/>
http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/Canada/20110530/coalition-agrees-nuclear-free-germ
any-by-2022-110530/ 

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Italians say "no" to nuclear during soccer championship 

Greenpeace unfurled a banner during the championship soccer game last
Sunday, reading: "From Milan to Palermo, let's shut down nuclear." The tag
line at the end reads, "the crazy ones are you if you don't vote to close
nuclear in the referendum. The national referendum will be held June 12 and
13. In the last one in 1987, Italians voted to shut down their nuclear power
program which has never since reopened.

<http://www.beyondnuclear.org/home/2011/5/31/italians-say-no-to-nuclear-duri
ng-soccer-championship.html>
http://www.beyondnuclear.org/home/2011/5/31/italians-say-no-to-nuclear-durin
g-soccer-championship.html

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Canada's Port Hope Reaps The Nuclear Industry's Rewards And Risks 

Cameco's shares have lost a quarter of their value since the Japanese
disaster, and nagging questions about nuclear safety have raised doubts
about the industry's revival. The company's stock tumbled again this week
after Germany said it would phase out its nuclear power program by 2022,
stirring concern that other countries would follow suit.

<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/02/canada-port-hope-nuclear-industry_
n_870556.html?ir=Green>
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/02/canada-port-hope-nuclear-industry_n
_870556.html?ir=Green

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Getting nervous about nuclear power 

The meltdown at Japan's Fukushima power station unleashed a wave that
threatens to swamp the nuclear industry's much-hyped global renaissance.

<http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/international-news/gettin
g-nervous-about-nuclear-power/article2040659/page1/>
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/international-news/getting
-nervous-about-nuclear-power/article2040659/page1/

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Don't Mini-mize the Dangers of Nuclear Power

But Small Modular Reactors (SMR) still depend on designs that generate
intense heat, employ dangerous materials (highly reactive sodium coolant),
and generate nuclear waste. SMRs also retain all the risks associated with
supplying, maintaining, safeguarding, and dismantling large nuclear reactors
- only now those risks would be multiplied and decentralized.

<http://www.earthisland.org/journal/index.php/eij/article/dont_mini-mize_the
_dangers_of_nuclear_power>
http://www.earthisland.org/journal/index.php/eij/article/dont_mini-mize_the_
dangers_of_nuclear_power

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Blowing Smoke: Correcting Anti-Wind Myths in Ontario

This report aims to correct the main myths of these anti-wind activists,
using credible scientific, mainstream sources to correct the record and to
give communities the information they need to make sound decisions.

<http://environmentaldefence.ca/reports/blowing-smoke-correcting-anti-wind-m
yths-in-ontario>
http://environmentaldefence.ca/reports/blowing-smoke-correcting-anti-wind-my
ths-in-ontario 

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Help doctors shut Ontario's coal plants now!

Ontario opposition leader, Tim Hudak, recently announced his committment to
close coal-fired plants by 2014. However, we don't need dirty coal to keep
our lights on -- we can shut down coal right now and still meet our energy
demands.

Please click here now to email Mr. Hudak and ask him to commit to closing
the coal plants this year. Coal smoke doesn't stop at the Ontario border, so
no matter where you live, Mr. Hudak needs to hear from you!

An initiative of
<http://cape.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=3701ef07f7d8b332a721d7714&id=
10c441c879&e=f06ab2b9b5> Canadian Association of Physicians for the
Environment (CAPE)

A letter from an Ontario doctor:
<http://www.ottawacitizen.com/opinion/Coal+fired+power+disaster/4898074/stor
y.html>
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/opinion/Coal+fired+power+disaster/4898074/story
.html 

And a letter from Angela:
<http://www.windsorstar.com/opinion/dirty+coal+power+exports/4898282/story.h
tml>
http://www.windsorstar.com/opinion/dirty+coal+power+exports/4898282/story.ht
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How Much Time? Urgent priorities for averting climate crisis

A Town Hall Meeting with a focus on opportunities in building the clean
energy economy

Wednesday, June 15, 7-9 pm

In the Paris-London Room of the International Living Learning Centre,
Ryerson University, 240 Jarvis St. (between Dundas & Gerrard), Toronto

Speakers:

Hon Glen R. Murray, MPP [Toronto Centre], Minister of Research and
Innovation

Adriana Mugnatto-Hamu (Climate Change critic for the Green Party of Canada)

Moderator: David Macdonald (United Church of Canada Minister; former MP
[Rosedale]; former chair of the standing committee on the environment (1990)

Sponsored by JustEarth ( <http://www.justearth.net> www.justearth.net)

Co-sponsors: Citizens Climate Lobby, Science for Peace, Greenspiration,
Transition Toronto, Green 13

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The Elliott Allen Institute for Theology & Ecology (EAITE), at St. Michael's
College, University of Toronto presents:

A Universe Story - Canadian Premiere

We are part of an immense universe and this changes everything

 <http://www.journeyoftheuniverse.org> www.journeyoftheuniverse.org

Wed. June 15, 7:30 p.m.
Muzzo Family Alumni Hall, Room 100, St. Michael's College, 121 St. Joseph
St., Toronto

This film project and companion book is a collaboration of evolutionary
philosopher Brian Thomas Swimme and historian of religions Mary Evelyn
Tucker. They weave a tapestry that draws together scientific discoveries in
astronomy, geology, and biology with humanistic insights concerning the
nature of the universe.

The film will be introduced by 2 highly acclaimed Thomas Berry scholars who
have worked on its production and content, and will be followed by
discussion.
.       Mary Evelyn Tucker, Yale University; author of: Worldly Wonder:
Religions Enter Their Ecological Phase; Moral and Spiritual  
Cultivation in Japanese Neo-Confucianism, and The Philosophy of Qi.
.       John Grim, Yale University; author of The Shaman: Patterns of
Religious Healing Among the Ojibway Indians and editor of Indigenous
Traditions and Ecology: the Interbeing of Cosmology and Community.

For more info:  <mailto:Dennis.ohara at utoronto.ca> Dennis.ohara at utoronto.ca
Donations accepted.

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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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Angela Bischoff

Outreach Director

Ontario Clean Air Alliance

Tel: 416 260-2080 x 1

160 John St., #300

Toronto, ON  M5V 2E5

 <mailto:angela at cleanairalliance.org> angela at cleanairalliance.org

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

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