No Nukes News: probe our nuclear establishment

Wed Mar 23 15:18:09 EDT 2011

No Nukes News

Mar. 23, 2011

For the best updates on the Japan nuclear crisis see
http://www.beyondnuclear.org/

Nuclear power is inherently unsafe and the list of possible illnesses
stemming from exposure to the accompanying radiation is horrifying: genetic
mutations, birth defects, cancer, leukemia and disorders of the
reproductive, immune, cardiovascular and endocrine systems. – Kumi Naidoo
<http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/23/opinion/23iht-ednaidoo23.html?_r=2&ref=gl
obal>  

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Darlington Nuclear Hearing 

The federal hearing on the proposal by Ontario Power Generation to build up
to four new reactors of yet-to-be-specified design gets underway Mon. Mar.
21 and will run for 3 weeks. They are open to the public - come one, come
all!

The Hearing will be held at Hope Fellowship Church, 1685 Bloor Street,
Courtice (between Oshawa and Bowmanville, a few kilometres due north of the
Darlington Nuclear Generating Station)

The detailed schedule is posted at
<http://www.ceaa-acee.gc.ca/050/details-eng.cfm?cear_id=29525>
http://www.ceaa-acee.gc.ca/050/details-eng.cfm?cear_id=29525

Find out more here:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Stop-Darlington/154293134613131 

You can watch the proceedings LIVE webcast online, or call in and listen
live. 

Toll-free dial-in telephone numbers for English audio for the  Darlington
Joint Review Panel proceedings: 613-960-7527 or 1-877-413-4815. The
identification number is 5760957.

To access the live Webcast click here:
http://www.nuclearsafety.gc.ca/eng/commission/webcasts/index.cfm (use
explorer, not firefox)

Written transcripts and audio recordings of the proceedings will be
available the day after each session.

Watch Helen Caldicott speak to the panel on Thur. March 24, sometime after
1:30 p.m.

Watch the video by activist Zach reporting from the hearings
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQIVRMM-LCU 

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No halt to Darlington hearings 

Calls by several groups for a postponement of the hearings into proposed new
nuclear reactors at Ontario Power Generation’s Darlington site have been
rejected by the panel reviewing safety and environmental issues.

http://www.thestar.com/business/companies/article/957791--no-halt-to-darling
ton-hearings 

Greenpeace shuts down Darlington nuclear hearing

http://www.greenpeace.org/canada/en/recent/Greenpeace-shuts-down-Darlington-
nuclear-hearing/

http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/957878--greenpeace-crashes-darlin
gton-nuclear-hearings?bn=1

http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/canada/breakingnews/hearings-into-proposed-
new-ontario-reactors-delayed-by-greenpeace-118425344.html 

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Calling All Youth – Sign the petition opposing new reactors at Darlington

http://www.gopetition.com/petition/43683.html

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The true cost of nuclear in Ontario 

http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/campus-notes/2011/03/true-cost-nuclear-ontar
io

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Probe our nuclear establishment to the core

 Two of the three major nuclear accidents -at Three Mile Island and
Chernobyl -were not caused by 9.0-force earthquakes, but by faulty equipment
or design malfunctions. Those are people problems. 

http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/Probe+nuclear+establishment+core/4487665/s
tory.html

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Canada’s nuclear plants ordered to review safety after disaster in Japan 

Canada's nuclear industry is facing repercussions from Japan's alarming
reactor failures, as the federal regulator orders safety reviews and critics
demand a halt to any new projects. 

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/canadas-nuclear-plants-ordered-
to-review-safety-after-disaster-in-japan/article1950455/ 

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Gentilly 2 reactor sits on fault line

http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/Gentilly+reactor+sits+fault+line/4447202
/story.html

Hydro-Québec under pressure to close Gentilly 2 nuclear plant

http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/Hydro+Québec+under+pressure+close+nuclea
r+plant/4473898/story.html

PQ would shut Gentilly nuke plant

More than 300 Quebec municipalities have adopted resolutions calling for the
province to stop using nuclear power.

http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/would+shut+Gentilly+nuclear+plant/447781
6/story.html 

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Nuclear Energy Isn't Needed

While we have all heard of Chernobyl and Three Mile Island, the nuclear
industry would have us believe these are but isolated events in an otherwise
unblemished history. Not so. Over 800 other significant events have been
officially reported to the International Atomic Energy Agency — Mayak,
Tokaimura, Bohunice, Forsmark to name just a few. 

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/23/opinion/23iht-ednaidoo23.html?_r=2
<http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/23/opinion/23iht-ednaidoo23.html?_r=2&ref=gl
obal> &ref=global 

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Nuclear power report: 14 'near misses' at US plants due to 'lax oversight'

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission failed to resolve known safety problems,
leading to 14 'near-misses' in US nuclear power plants in 2009 and 2010,
according to a new report from a nuclear watchdog group.

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2011/0318/Nuclear-power-report-14-near-misses-a
t-US-plants-due-to-lax-oversight?utm_source=twitterfeed
<http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2011/0318/Nuclear-power-report-14-near-misses-
at-US-plants-due-to-lax-oversight?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter&
utm_campaign=Feed%3A+feeds%2Fcsm+%28Christian+Science+Monitor+|+All+Stories%
29&utm_content=Twitter>
&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+feeds%2Fcsm+%28Christian+Science+Mo
nitor+|+All+Stories%29&utm_content=Twitter 

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Japan fears food contamination as battle to cool nuclear plant continues

Abnormal radiation levels reported in tap water, vegetables and milk with
concerns that fish may also be affected

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/mar/22/japan-food-contamination-nuclear
-plant

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Atomic Cleanup Cost Goes to Japan's Taxpayers, May Spur Liability Shift

Japan’s taxpayer, not the nuclear industry or insurers, will cover most of
the cleanup cost from the worst accident since Chernobyl, a financial rescue
that may spur moves by nations to make companies assume more liability.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-03-23/nuclear-cleanup-cost-goes-to-japan-
s-taxpayers-may-spur-liability-shift.html

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Battle-proof Wind Farms Survive Japan's Trial by Fire

Despite assertions by its detractors
<http://misunderstoodfinance.blogspot.com/2011/03/us-will-draw-wrong-conclus
ions-about.html>  that wind energy would not survive an earthquake or
tsunami the Japanese wind industry is still functioning and helping to keep
the lights on during the Fuksuhima crisis.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kelly-rigg/battleproof-wind-farms-su_b_837172.
html?ref=fb
<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kelly-rigg/battleproof-wind-farms-su_b_837172
.html?ref=fb&src=sp> &src=sp

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Wind power is producing 20% of PEI’s electricity needs and they are aiming
for 30% by 2016!

http://www.gov.pe.ca/photos/original/PEIEC.pdf

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Rethinking nuclear power - Israel

The nuclear disaster in Japan caused Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to
declare last week that Israel will not build nuclear power plants. By saying
no to that source of energy, Israel could become a leader in implementing
the never-ending, carbon-free and completely safe kind: solar and wind
power. 

http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Op-EdContributors/Article.aspx?id=213194

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The path to eliminating nuclear weapons is clear cut

Ottawa could host landmark meeting to lay groundwork for treaty — four MPs
urge action.

by Douglas Roche and Jim Creskey

http://www.straightgoods.ca/2011/ViewArticle.cfm?Ref=226
<http://www.straightgoods.ca/2011/ViewArticle.cfm?Ref=226&Cookies=yes>
&Cookies=yes 

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Nuclear in the Spotlight – Wed. Mar. 30, Toronto

Wed. March 30th, 7:30 p.m.

Annex Live, 296 Brunswick (at Bloor), Toronto

With performers Mike Ford, Meghan Morrison, Richard Underhill, Michael Louis
Johnson, the Raging Grannies and more. 

Kevin Kamps from Beyond Nuclear will speak to the current situation in
Japan.

Help OCAA turn Ontario away from nuclear and toward safer options.  

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=192323914141758

http://nuclearspotlight.eventbrite.com/ 

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Order FREE anti-nuclear and anti-coal leaflets here: 

http://www.cleanairalliance.org/get_involved_order_pamphlets 

They contain postcards to politicians.

Courtesy of the Ontario Clean Air Alliance.

Thanks

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Angela Bischoff

Outreach Director

Ontario Clean Air Alliance

Tel: 416 926 1907 x 246

625 Church Street, #402

Toronto, ON M4Y 2G1

angela at cleanairalliance.org

www.cleanairalliance.org <http://www.cleanairalliance.org/>  

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