No Nukes News: Japan Nuclear Crisis

[Angela Bischoff-OCAA]

No Nukes News

 

Mar. 12, 2011

 

Joe Cirincione,
<http://beyondnuclear.us1.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=18a3f9977c3625b53cf
911e2f&id=1d78811060&e=0843886488>  president of the Ploughshares Fund has
already called the accident "one of the three worst accidents we have ever
had at a nuclear power plant in the history of nuclear power," recalling the
1979 Three Mile Island, PA meltdown and the 1986 Chernobyl reactor explosion
in Ukraine.

Commentator, Keith Olbermann
<http://beyondnuclear.us1.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=18a3f9977c3625b53cf
911e2f&id=b24d1c0a9d&e=0843886488>  has called for a complete and permanent
shutdown of U.S. reactors.

 

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Beyond Nuclear monitoring struggle to prevent meltdown in Japan

 

Beyond Nuclear is monitoring the situation in Japan with respect to the
nuclear reactor crisis and providing constant updates on their site. The
best links and articles can be found here including a map of potential
fallout heading to western Canada and the US. 

 

http://www.beyondnuclear.org/ 

 

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NIRS Factsheet on Japan's Reactors

 

Nuclear Information and Resource Centre is closely monitoring the situation
with Japan's nuclear reactors. They have produced and are regularly updating
a factsheet on the Fukushima reactors and the ongoing concerns about what
appears to be becoming a very serious situation. Check periodically for
updates and refer your local media to it.

 

http://www.nirs.org/reactorwatch/accidents/Fukushimafactsheet.pdf 

 

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Random articles on the situation

 

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/12/us-japan-quake-nuclear-qa-idUSTRE7
2B2ET20110312

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-12723092 

http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/03/12/japan.nuclear/

http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/RS_Battle_to_stabilise_earthquake_reactors
_1203111.html

 

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Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility 

 

Some resources about Nuclear Accidents at the top of the CCNR web page.

 

http://ccnr.org   

 

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Send a letter to McGuinty (and other prov. leaders) saying No More Nuclear
Bailouts in Ontario!

 

http://www.cleanairalliance.org/nuke_debt

 

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Angela Bischoff

Outreach Director

Ontario Clean Air Alliance

Tel: 416 926 1907 x 246

625 Church Street, #402

Toronto, ON M4Y 2G1

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