No Nukes News: Nuclear is not a cost-effective climate solution

[Angela Bischoff]

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Sept. 18, 2018

The World

☢ Climate Change And Why Nuclear Power Can't Fix It  This online resource delivers short, simple arguments against using nuclear power as a climate change "solution" and shows how sticking with nuclear energy impedes progress on global warming mitigation.
 
☢ What are coastal nuclear power plants doing to address climate threats? As shorelines creep inland and storms worsen, nuclear reactors around the world face new challenges. Sea walls around coastal nuclear power plants aren't high enough. Reactors guzzle millions of gallons of water daily. Does clinging on to nuclear power in a warming world make any sense?

☢ SMR – The Second Make-Believe Renaissance By Dr. Gordon Edwards. SMR stands for “Small Modular Reactor(s)". It represents the latest effort by an increasingly desperate nuclear industry to create a “Nuclear Renaissance” that will be its industrial salvation. But "Right now, the costs on the SMRs, in part because of the size and in part because of the security that's associated with any nuclear plant, are prohibitive." While Canada courts SMR producers, the UK gov’t has kicked the SMR programme to the curb.
 
☢ Japan tries to dilute tritium danger More than one million tonnes of radioactively contaminated water has already accumulated at the destroyed Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant site, stored in steel tanks and increasing in volume daily. TEPCO still wants to dump the radioactive water into the ocean despite massive opposition.
 
☢ In the dark, the first 2,000 tons of ‘nuclear mud’ is dumped off Penarh French nuclear company EDF hopes to dump 300,000 tonnes of radioactive sludge from Hinkley Point nuclear plant in England into the waters off Wales. Opponents to the controversial scheme have launched a last-minute legal challenge.

☢ Nuclear power is being left behind, industry experts say The 2018 edition of the Nuclear Industry Status Report (WNISR) reveals that nuclear power capacity grew by only 1% in 2017, while wind and solar saw their share increase by 17% and 35%, respectively. The report also recognizes that solar and wind are now the cheapest grid-connected sources of energy. Investments in new nuclear plants, on the other hand, are only being driven by gov't subsidies, and by nuclear weapon states.

☢ The Tip of the Radiation Disaster Iceberg The World Nuclear Association and other nuclear power supporters acknowledge 3 ‘major” nuclear disasters: Three Mile Island in 1979 (US), Chernobyl in 1986 (USSR), and Fukushima in 2011 (Japan). But there have been a frightening series of large-scale disasters that have been caused by uranium mining, reactors, nuclear weapons, and radioactive waste. Nine more are described here.Ontario

☢ Squirrel in Newmarket knocks out power for 11,000 homes in Stouffville This is how fragile our power grid is. #ClosePickering

☢ Living near Durham nuclear plant? Get KI pills Those within 50-kilometre radius of Pickering, Darlington and Bruce nuclear stations should have a supply of potassium iodide pills to prevent thyroid cancer in the case of a nuclear accident. You can order them free at www.preparetobesafe.ca  Renewables and Conservation

☼ All the Electricity the World Needs Can Come From Renewables A report by the Centre for Alternative Technology (CAT) says renewable energy could now meet all our electricity needs, using only existing technology, at all times of the day, and all year round. “Tackling climate change and creating a fairer future for everyone is no longer a technological challenge, it’s a challenge of will, of ambition, and of vision”
 
☼ California must go big on energy efficiency to be carbon-free by 2045 Not only is efficiency abundant and inexpensive, it’s also necessary to meet our climate reduction commitments.

☼ More solar power hurts nuclear energy. But it also hurts itself As California goes carbon-free, 2 camps emerge – 100% renewable, and those that hope to include nuclear. 

☼ How China’s giant solar farms are transforming world energy

☼ Utilities have a problem: the public wants 100% renewable energy, and quick Take Action!☢ Sign our petitions to Close Pickering and to Buy Quebec Power. And share them with your friends. Watch our 2 min. video here.☢ Can you spare a few hours to leaflet blitz your neighbourhood mailboxes? Help us make the closure of the Pickering nuclear station a public issue. Contact: angela at cleanairalliance.org☢ Support Saugeen Ojibway Nation's right to prior consent on the Bruce nuclear rebuild Petition opposing the Bruce nuclear rebuild.

☢ Stop OPG's  Nuclear Waste Dump Before It's Too Late Learn more about OPG’s nuke waste dump proposal in Kincardine, ON, and write Minister McKenna, Premier Wynne and PM Trudeau here.

☢ Tell the Japanese government: don’t dump nuclear waste into the ocean Petition

☢ Order your free KI (anti-thyroid-cancer) pills here if you live within 50 km of an ON nuclear facility - that includes all of Toronto and beyond. Download your anti-thyroid cancer posters hereto post in your office, school, or local cafe.Events

☢ Green Energy Doors Open Sept. 21 – 23, around Ontario. This is an energy literacy campaign and annual showcase of sustainable energy projects. Ontario is already on the path to building a 100% clean, sustainable energy system.

☢ No War 2018: designing a world beyond war, legalizing peace Toronto Sept. 21-22

☢ ClimaCon – Canada’s largest convergence of climate heroes Oct. 11-12, York University, Toronto
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