No Nukes News: Too slow, too expensive

Fri Oct 14 13:08:30 EDT 2022

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The World

☢ Nuclear energy too slow, too expensive to save climate: industry report

☢ 7 reasons why nuclear energy is not the answer to solve climate change by Mark Jacobson, Stanford U

☢ World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2022 assesses on 385 pages the status and trends of the nuclear industry, and it compares the development of nuclear power and renewable energy globally. It contains a special focus chapter on Nuclear Power and War that assesses the safety and security challenges of nuclear power plants in war situations.

☢ Challenge against EU ‘green’ label for gas and nuclear energy steps up Austria files lawsuit against European Commission classification of contentious fuels as climate-friendly. Greenpeace also to sue European Union for ‘gas and nuclear greenwashing’

☢ Zaporizhzhia on the brink: How deteriorating conditions at the nuclear power plant could lead to disaster

☢ Zaporizhzhia is the poster child for abandoning the use of nuclear power The continued military activity around the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant has raised worldwide concern about the terrible consequences should a missile strike a reactor, or worse, the unprotected irradiated fuel pools or radioactive waste storage casks.

☢ Ukraine Nuclear Resource Page Stay up to date on developments in #Ukraine and the dangerous situations at #Chernobyl and #Zaporizhzhia on the NIRS Ukraine Resource Page.

☢ Russia’s nuclear trade with Europe flows despite Ukraine war While the EU has agreed to curtail its use of Russian oil and gas, its member nations continue to import and export uranium, financing the war in Ukraine, extending (Europe’s) energy dependence on Russia, and delaying the transition to renewable energy. Likewise, Russia sells nearly $1 billion in uranium to the U.S. a year.

☢ Uranium exploration is returning to Nunavut. How might the territory react this time? 

☢ Nuclear Radiation Risk Impacts One Group Far More Than Any Other Young girls could be up to 10 x more vulnerable to nuclear radiation than other members of society, with girls aged up to five twice as likely to develop cancer as boys of the same age. More here.

☢ Medicine and Nuclear Power Modern medicine does not depend on nuclear power. All electricity producing reactors could be shut down permanently with little or no impact on best medical practices 

Ontario
  ☢ An energy disaster for Ontario - extending Pickering 2 more years and considering rebuilding 4 of its reactors The Ford gov't's energy plan is an outdated 1970's power system based on a mix of high-cost nuclear and polluting gas that will raise our electricity rates and climate pollution.

☢ Extending Pickering nuclear plant operations will be costly Extending or rebuilding this 51-yr-old nuclear station would be "economic lunacy."

☢ ‘Very Nasty Trade-Off’ as Ontario Picks Gas and Nuclear Over Lower Cost, Greener Renewables As storms rip through our communities and temperature records are smashed worldwide, we need a plan to lower our climate damage — not increase it with 600% increase in fossil gas and high-cost nukes.

☢ Ford government doubles down on wrecking the climate New gas plants in the midst of a climate era? We need the feds to ensure that its Clean Electricity Standard makes this plan illegal. 

☢ Ontario turns its back on Quebec waterpower while firing up gas The ON gov't has pulled the plug on its 7-year Ontario-Quebec Electricity Trade Agreement to import low-cost waterpower from Quebec.

☢ Huntsville doesn’t need more gas, it needs electric heat pumps Instead of hooking homes into climate-wrecking gas, we can convert them to super-efficient cold-weather air-source heat pumps that provide both heating and cooling.
  ☢ Responses from Municipal Election Candidates We queried candidates running in Pickering, Ajax, Clarington and Kincardine on their positions on safer interim nuclear waste storage and immediate dismantlement of Pickering after shut down.

Renewables and Conservation

☼ Green Marshall Plan for Ukraine By Amory Lovins. Ukraine must rebuild for a fossil and nuclear free future. Renewables, ⚡️efficiency and industrial innovation must be at the core of #UkraineRecovery

☼ Fast transition to renewables will save the world $18 trillion The new study led by Oxford University features a “fast transition” scenario that ramps up investment in solar, wind, batteries, electric vehicles and green hydrogen. “Accelerating the transition to renewable energy is now the best bet, not just for the planet, but for energy costs too.”

☼ Greece runs entirely on renewables for the first time in its history

☼ What if the wind doesn’t blow!? An 80 min. recording of a conversation with Stanford University Professor Mark Jacobson 

Take Action

☢ Federal Action Needed to Stop Gas-Power Insanity Please send a message to federal Env. Min. Guilbeault and your MP asking them to enact a Clean Electricity Standard that prohibits the building of new gas-fired power plants.

☢ Extending and rebuilding the Pickering Nuclear station is a terrible idea Send a message to ON gov't 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.

☢ 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.

☢ Tell Ottawa: no more funding for new nuclear reactors Tell federal Ministers to stop wasting our $ on polluting nuclear reactors.

☢ Reclaim Pickering's waterfront Call for the immediate dismantling of the Pickering Nuclear Station after closure in 2024. Send a message to Ontario's Finance Minister and your MPP.

Events

☢ Short Online Courses on Radiation, Biology and Society with Gender + Radiation Impact Project and Beyond Nuclear

☢ When The Wind Blows Available to livestream Oct. 25 - Nov. 18. At a time of increasing nuclear danger, this film serves as an important reminder of the devastating reality of a nuclear war.

☢ ‘What are ‘tactical’ nuclear weapons? And will they lead to Armageddon?’ Wed. Nov. 2, 3 - 4 p.m. ET 

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