No Nukes News: Chernobyl - 33 years and counting

[Angela Bischoff]

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April 26, 2019☢  The Chernobyl nuclear disaster – April 26, 1986 – is classified by the UN as the worst environmental catastrophe in human history, spewing radiation around the globe and involving 500,000 workers in decontamination efforts. The efforts continue, and the harrowing effects are felt to this day as you’ll see in the following articles/videos/podcasts.

The World

☢ Chernobyl’s Deadly Effects Estimates Vary Thirty-six hundred deaths, or 125,000? Nine million people affected, or 50 million? The health effects of exposing everyone in the hemisphere to Chernobyl’s radiation (and Windscale’s, and Santa Susana’s, and Fukushima’s) — effects that are often delayed for decades — are incalculable. Got cancer?

☢ Chernobyl’s disastrous cover-up is a warning for the next nuclear age Before expanding nuclear power to combat climate change, we need answers to the global health effects of radioactivity. This is a devastating article about the radioactivity released during the Chernobyl nuclear crisis, and the 2000 nuke bombs exploded during the cold war.

☢ Chernobyl: How bad was it? A scholar’s book ‘Manual for Survival: A Chernobyl Guide to the Future’ uncovers new material about the effects of the infamous nuclear meltdown. “Wherever I looked (and I was usually the first researcher to sign out the files), the evidence of a public health disaster was overwhelming, and it came from almost every possible quarter,” she writes.

☢ ‘Midnight in Chernobyl’ reveals the nuclear disaster's untold story In this powerful work of reportage, Chernobyl and its aftermath emerge as the Soviet Union’s last stand, containing all the pathologies and passion of that social experiment now lost to history: “hubris,” magical thinking, grotesque disregard for individual life, gaping inequity between the political class and the rest in a supposedly classless society, and sheer bloody-minded communal courage.

☢ Revisiting Chernobyl: 'It is a huge cemetery of dreams' The 1986 nuclear disaster blighted Ukraine and changed the world. Serhii Plokhy, who won the Baillie Gifford prize for his history of the tragedy, returns to the once sought-after Soviet town.

☢ Hard duty in the Chernobyl zone Natalie tells of her harrowing life as a “liquidator” after the 1986 Chernobyl disaster.

☢ Chernobyl Radiation Cover-Ups & Deadly Truth A very special interview with Kate Brown, author of 'Manual for Survival: A Chernobyl Guide to the Future' about Chernobyl’s true health impacts.  A 1-hour Nuclear Hotseat podcast. 

☢ Chernobyl 33rd Anniversary Special This 1-hour Nuclear Hotseat podcast brings Ukraine’s devastating 1986 nuclear accident — and its ongoing consequences — into sharp, terrifying, and very personal focus featuring interviews with Dr. Timothy Mousseau on the genetic consequences of the radiation on plants, animals and people; Dr. Yablokov who studied 5000 scientific reports on Chernobyl; a Soviet photojournalist and more.

☢ Chernobyl Timeline: How a Nuclear Accident Escalated to a Historic Disaster Chernobyl’s timeline from 1977 to 2006 when Gorbachev wrote that the Chernobyl disaster, “even more than my launch of perestroika, was perhaps the real cause of the collapse of the Soviet Union.”Ontario

☢ Don't think about the nuclear elephant We are once again reminding the Premier that he can keep his promise to reduce electricity bills by 12% by making a deal with Quebec to import low-cost water power to replace our high cost nuclear rebuilds and extensions. We're buying radio ads, leaflets, a billboard, social media ads, and much more. Please contribute to our campaign here.

☢ What do German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Canadian Angela Bischoff have in common? Aside from the same first name, both are opposed to nuclear energy.Renewables and Conservation

☼ New York City's Green New Deal is music to Quebec's ears NYC's Mayor's plan to tackle climate change is for all city operations to run on 100% “zero-emission Canadian hydropower” within 5 years. Negotiations would begin “right away” with the aim of signing a deal by the end of 2020. Quebec Premier Legault has also pitched his power export plan to Ontario Premier Doug Ford but they’re not interested despite the price being 1/3rd the price of rebuilding our aging nukes.

☼ A Market-Driven Green New Deal? We’d Be Unstoppable Any serious energy transformation effort will need to harness our immensely powerful and creative economic engine, not dismantle it. By Amory B. Lovins

☼ Norway’s Historic Move Into Renewables: $14 Billion Oil Fund Investment in wind and solar

☼ Global Wind Capacity Set to Surge 50% in Five Years As GE Installs 12-Megawatt Test TurbineTake Action!

☢ Please contact Premier Ford and ask him to buy low-cost Quebec water power and cancel the high-cost Darlington Re-Build Project. Text his cell phone # is 416-805-2156 or email him at Doug.Ford at pc.ola.org. Click here to email him now. And please sign and share the petition here.

☢ Volunteers needed: We're leafletting mailboxes in Doug Ford's hood of N. Etobicoke. Can you join the group blitzes -- or go out in your own anywhere in ON? If so, please contact angela at cleanairalliance.org

☢ Petition to Premier Ford for the production of EVs Premier Ford must develop a strategy to ensure that Ontario rapidly becomes a world leader in the production and use of EVs (electric vehicles) and other low-carbon technologies.

☢ Canadian Government must protect our rivers from radioactive waste Please sign the petition to protect the Ottawa and Winnipeg Rivers currently threatened by three Canadian Nuclear Laboratories’ (CNL’s) nuclear waste dump proposals.Events

☢ How Well Can Heat Pumps Work For You? Webinar Thur. May 2, noon - 1 p.m.
 
☢ Affordable Energy: Are We There Yet? Low-Income Energy Network (LIEN) Conference Tuesday, May 14, 9 a.m. - 4 p.m., Toronto Let’s come together to take stock of current energy assistance programs and ensure that they meet the needs of low-income consumers in a manner that is equitable, sustainable, and holistic.
 
☢ Protest Flotilla to Protect the Ottawa River Sat. July 27 Join us for a family-friendly Flotilla Protest against the federal government and its negligence in regulating the irresponsible proposals made by SNC Lavalin and other multinationals to build low-budget radioactive waste dumps on the shores of the Ottawa River at Chalk River and Rolphton.
 
☢ International Anti-nuclear Summer Camp 2019 Join the gathering on August 12-18 in Germany for networking, exchanging of experiences and knowledge regarding nuclear policies, skill sharing, preparing common campaigns, actions and projects.
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