No Nukes News: fusion confusion

Wed Dec 21 13:27:29 EST 2022

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☢ The Fusion Breakthrough: It’s not really about generating electricity It's about tens of billions of dollars being spent annually on maintaining and modernizing the USA’s enormously destructive fleet of thermonuclear weapons. Any association with commercial fusion energy is at best decades away.

☢ Fusion: Clean Energy or Weapons? This ‘breakthrough’ is about modernising nuclear weapons, and dressing it up as a means to produce “clean” energy. 

☢ One Small Step for Nuclear Fusion, No Giant Leap for Climate Action Nuclear fusion is a research concept driven by atomic militarism.

☢ Nuclear power is just a slow and expensive distraction Despite recent breakthroughs in nuclear fusion, renewables remain the most important technology for reaching net zero.

☢ Ban Plutonium Reprocessing in Canada Plutonium reprocessing, or 'recycling' as industry likes to call it, is highly contaminating, practiced in only a few countries, and is linked to nuclear proliferation and nuclear weapons.

☢ Why we should ban Plutonium Reprocessing 5 min. video with Dr. Gordon Edwards, Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility

☢ Nuclear Wastes: What Are They? . . . and What’s Wrong With Them? By Dr. Gordon Edwards

☢ Fission, Fusion and Efficiency (The 3 F's) By Gordon Edwards of Canadians for Nuclear Responsibility

☢ SMRs are a Dirty Dangerous Distraction from Tackling Climate Change One-page factsheet signed by more than 120 Canadian civil society groups.

☢ Green Party of Canada statement on gov't financing of SMRs, impact assessments for new nuclear projects, plutonium "reprocessing", uranium mining and alternatives. 

Ontario

☢ IESO picks the slow and torturous lane to decarbonize electricity Ontario's Independent Electricity System Operator is proposing to double Ontario’s nuclear generation capacity by 2050 and expand and build NEW gas plants despite the fact that energy efficiency, wind, solar and QC water power can meet our needs at less than half the cost, without producing more nuclear wastes.

☢ Elizabeth May joins our call for Trudeau to phase-out gas power in Ontario by 2030 We need your help to persuade your M.P., your M.P.P., your Mayor and your Municipal Councillor to also send letters to the Prime Minister calling for Clean Electricity Regulations that will phase-out gas power in Ontario by 2030. 

Renewables and Conservation

☼ Renewables to Deliver 90% of New Electricity Globally Renewables were already expanding quickly, but the global energy crisis has kicked them into an extraordinary new phase of even faster growth as countries seek to capitalize on their energy security benefits.

☼ Ukraine war: Billionaire launches $25bn fund for green reconstruction "President [Zelensky] sees that as an opportunity to completely replace old coal-fired [and] nuclear power stations with brand new green energy."

☼ ‘Floatovoltaics’ Hold Promise An emerging energy solution to save space is to float solar panels on bodies of water creating floatovoltaic farms.

☼ Heat Pumps: The smart way to heat and cool your home 

Take Action

☢ Please send the federal government a message about the need for strong Clean Electricity Regulations that can help Ontario embrace the future of energy – not the past.

☢ Extending and rebuilding Pickering Nuclear is a terrible idea Send your message to provincial politicians here.

☢ YES! Experimental nuclear reactors (SMRs) DO need an impact assessment: Speak Out! New Brunswick aims to build an SMR. Tell the feds to impose a full environmental assessment.

☢ Petition to the ON legislature callig for Nuclear Waste to Stay on Site Where it is Produced

☢ We need a safer interim storage for OPG's nuclear wastes: above-ground, attack-resistant, reinforced concrete vaults. Send your message to Premier Ford and Energy Min. Smith here.

☢ Say no to new nuclear in the GTA Tell Ontario's political leaders that you want investments in wind and solar energy, not a new GTA nuclear reactor.

☢ Please make a year-end donation to Ontario Clean Air Alliance We need your support to stop this province from moving steadily backwards with more gas and nuclear while trashing renewables and conservation. Thank you! 

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