No Nukes News: Fukushima 8 years later

[Angela Bischoff]

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March 11, 2019☢ Premier Ford: Buy low-cost water power from our neighbours in Quebec to replace our high cost nuclear rebuilds and save Ontarians $ billions! Please sign and share the petition here.  

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

The World

☢ 'We were driven out': Fukushima's radioactive legacy In Namie, just 5% have returned since the evacuation orders were lifted. Its people are scattered and divided. Families are split. "As a community, we were already suffering from an ageing population. Now, the damage is more severe because young people are not returning. The elderly who come back feel pessimism and depression. The biggest tragedy now is the high rate of suicides."

☢ Japanese government misleading UN on impact of Fukushima fallout on children, decontamination workers The report, “On the Frontline of the Fukushima Nuclear Accident: Workers and Children,” reveals high levels of radiation in both exclusion zones and open areas still exist even after huge decontamination efforts, and documents the extent of the government’s violation of international human rights conventions and guidelines, in particular those for workers and children.
 
☢ Atomic Balm Part 1: Prime Minister Abe Uses The Tokyo Olympics As Snake Oil Cure For The Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Meltdowns Japan’s post-Fukushima efforts have been an underfunded, unsuccessful attempt to clean-up the ongoing spread of migrating radioactivity from Fukushima.

☢ Atomic Balm Part 2: The Run For Your Life Tokyo Olympics To reduce cleanup costs while spending enormous funds on the Olympics, the government of Japan treats its 160,000 Fukushima evacuees as if they were radiation Guinea Pigs, forcing them to return to recontaminated areas to try and convince the world everything is ok.

☢ Eight Years on, Fukushima Still Poses Health Risks for Children There is evidence that thyroid cancer rates are higher among Fukushima’s children than the national population, but it is a latent disease: it is still too early to tell what the full impact will be.

☢ Women of Fukushima Six Japanese women offer brutally honest views on the state of the clean­up, the cover­ups and untruths since the nuclear accident in Fukushima, and how it has affected their lives, homes and families. 23 min. video, 2012.

☢ Eight years after triple nuclear meltdown, Fukushima No. 1's water woes show no signs of ebbing Nearly a thousand storage tanks are scattered across the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, holding a staggering 1.1 million tons of treated water used to keep its melted reactor cores cool while they rust in the sun. More here: Water woes threaten Fukushima cleanup

☢ Nuclear Hotseat is a weekly international news podcast on all things anti-nuclear Her 2 recent editions are Fukushima Anniversary Specials that cover medical data manipulation, microparticles, Tokyo demonstrations against nuclear restarts and more.       

☢ Hot Garbage Grifters: SNC-Lavalin’s Plan to Turn Nuclear Waste into Long-Term Gold No country in the world has yet found a proven, permanent solution for the 250 million kilograms of spent fuel now in limbo in storage pools and canisters, let alone the atomic furnaces which created them. Every commercial power reactor—regardless of model, type, country, or owner/operator—contains the radioactive equivalent of many atomic bombs locked within its spent fuel, reactor core, pumps, valves, and extensive cooling circuits. Enter SNC-Lavalin.Ontario

☢ Etobicoke Campaign to persuade Premier Ford to lower hydro costs starts today We’ve launched our Etobicoke Campaign to persuade Premier Ford to keep his promise to lower your hydro bills by 12%. He can do it by signing a deal with Quebec.

☢ Nuke Kids on the Toronto Block A facility that produces half the country’s nuclear fuel pellets sits beside a busy rail line in densely populated Toronto. It’s applying to have its licence renewed for another 10 years – so far, without any pushbackRenewables and Conservation

☼ Why Excluding Nuclear, Fossils With Carbon Capture, & Biofuels From The Green New Deal Makes Financial & Climate Sense All three technologies are opportunity costs. They raise costs to consumers and society, slow solutions to global warming and air pollution by increasing carbon and emissions relative to clean, renewables (thus are not zero carbon), and/or create risks that clean, renewables don’t have.

☼ Why The Green New Deal Cuts Consumer Energy Costs & Unemployment The Green New Deal is a proposal to transition entirely to renewable, zero-emission energy in all energy sectors, to promote removal of carbon from the air through natural reforestation and land preservation, and to create jobs.

☼ Clean disruption? Stanford group plans for 100% green-energy future "No oil. No gas. No coal. And nuclear would be retired. It's all wind, water and solar powering Canada, 100%." Such an energy mix would, according to the Solutions Project, lead to a long list of benefits, including the creation of 200,000 additional jobs in the energy sector.Take 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 send him a message now. And please sign and share the petition here.

☢ Volunteers needed: We're leafletting in Doug Ford's hood of Etobicoke. Can you join the group blitzes -- or go out on your own in Etobicoke or in your own hood? 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.

☢ Calling Citizen Scientists for Radiation Collection Project We’re looking for citizen radiation monitors interested in contributing to citizen science, and for funders whose support can help make the technology possible for those who can't afford it. For more info see here. If interested (either as a participant or as a funder), please contact mcneill.janet at gmail.com

☢ 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 here to post in your office, school, or local cafe.Events

☢ Power, Politics & Carbon Thur. March 14, 5:30 - 9 p.m. Ryerson University, Toronto. Speakers include Jack Gibbons, Ontario Clean Air Alliance. Free.

☢ Youth Unstoppable Thur. March 14, 7 - 9:30 p.m., 60 Lowther, Toronto. This new documentary takes us inside the youth climate movement as seen through the eyes of a young filmmaker.

☢ A Body in Fukushima: Reflections on the Nuclear in Everyday Life Friday, March 15, 5 – 7 p.m. Toronto Reference Library. Free.
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