No Nukes News: Hacking of ON nukes serious concern says Premier

[Angela Bischoff]

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March 26, 2018☢ Hacking of Ontario's nuclear plants "a very serious question," says Premier The growing range of threats to aging, high-risk facilities like the Pickering Nuclear Generating Station now includes cyber attacks. Op Ed in NOW Magazine by Angela Bischoff, OCAA.

☢ Pickering Nuclear Station: Too Close for Comfort View our 17-slide powerpoint presentation explaining why we need to close Canada's oldest nuclear station.

☢ We can make it happen - Close Pickering in 2018! We’re ramping up an election campaign and we need your financial support. Thanks!

The World

☢ Cyberattacks Put Russian Fingers on the Switch at Nuclear Power Plants, U.S. Says

☢ 7 Lives, 7 Perspectives on an Ongoing Nuclear Accident: DiaNuke Interviews on 7 Years of Fukushima 

☢ Fukushima tragedy transforms students into agents of change Wataru Inoue wants to study renewable energy as an alternative to nuclear power and is looking at wood and algae. "I would like to tell people around the world about the risk of nuclear power plants," the 17-year-old explained.

☢ Reality of Fukushima - Akiko Morimatsu 6 min. video testimony of mother from Fukushima 

☢ Is Fukushima doomed to become a dumping ground for toxic waste? Despite promises of revitalisation from Japan’s government, seven years on from the nuclear disaster the area is still struggling.

☢ Japanese government fighting 45 lawsuits over Fukushima nuclear catastrophe – and more to come 

☢ Turkish police seize radioactive material in anti-smuggling raid in Turkey The 1.4 kg of radioactive material would’ve been sold on the black market for $70 million. It is used in nuclear warheads and nuclear power stations.

☢ Austria and Luxembourg Agree on Alliance against Nuclear Power

☢ New European Nuclear Reactors Prove to Be A Financial and Technically Dangerous Disaster The promises of “inherently safe” EPR reactors did not materialize and turned into a heavy burden to European taxpayers. 

☢ Cancer, George Monbiot and Nuclear Weapons Test Fallout George Monbiot, who has now been diagnosed with prostate cancer at the young age of 55, was born at the peak of the atmospheric test fallout (1959-63). He is thus a peak exposed (at risk) member of a cohort of those exposed in the womb to the fallout and currently suffering the consequences of exposure to Strontium-90 in the milk, and (measured) in the childrens’ bones.

☢ Once ignored, small band of protesters proven right about bungled nuclear project Through the years, the activists' message was simple: the nuclear project's costs would spiral out of control; electricity customers would face higher bills; the reactors would produce power the state did not need. And then the nuclear project owners bailed mid-way through the V.C. Summer nuclear newbuild, leaving taxpayers on the hook. The protestors were vindicated.

☢ The Best Nuke Quotes Collected by DNA’s (Durham Nuclear Awareness) Janet McNeill

☢ Why does Saudi Arabia want to spend billions to enrich its own uranium? It's about more than just electrical power, it’s about geopolitical power. “Saudi Arabia does not want to acquire any nuclear bomb, but without a doubt if Iran developed a nuclear bomb, we will follow suit as soon as possible.” The turn to nuclear power by Saudi Arabia, and several other countries in Middle East, raises the risk of a nuclear arms race in the most unstable part of the world.

☢ Zambia does not need a Nuclear Power Station And neither does Sudan. The expansion of nuclear power for civilian purposes is actually to cross-subsidize the expansion of military nuclear industrial capabilities. 

☢ The beginning of the end of nuclear weapons? Already there are 57 signatories (122 voted in support, 5 have ratified thus far) to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons… and Canada isn’t one of them.Ontario

☢ Possibility of Russians hacking into Ontario nuclear stations "a very serious question," says Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne “One good precaution against a nuclear cyber attack would be to shut down 47-year-old Pickering Nuclear Station, with its 1970s computers, when it’s operating license expires this summer,” OCAA’s Jack Gibbons responded. “We share the Premier’s concern about the possibility of Russians hacking into Ontario nuclear plants.”

☢ Quebec’s leader of the CAQ party wants electricity alliance with Ontario If elected premier, he would push for an eastern-Canadian alliance to maximize Hydro-Québec exports. He hopes that the cost savings of QC water power would convince Ontario to buy in.

☢ Reactor's neighbours alarmed over radioactive toxins in river Report details dumping water into the Ottawa River contaminated with tritium, PCBs, other toxins from the Rolphton, ON nuclear site.

☢ OPG boss Jeff Lyash tops Sunshine List of public sector earners at $1.55 million A $400,000 raise since 2016! Just one of many reasons OPG has requested a doubling of the rate they receive for their nuclear power.Renewables and Conservation

☼ The unholy alliance that explains why renewables are trouncing nuclear The costs of solar and wind have plunged while nuclear has become almost astoundingly expensive.

☼ Solar Power Works In Many Places You Might Not Expect Solar power does function in colder climates with less sunny weather.Take Action!

☢ Canada - do not let corporate profits dictate what we do with our nuclear waste Please sign the petition. 
 
☢ Protect Kyoto! Prevent another nuclear disaster in Japan. Stop the dangerous Ohi plantPlease sign the petition.

☢ Westinghouse - Quit India Please sign and circulate this international statement against the Kovvada nuclear plant launched as Westinghouse officials visit India next week.

☢ Sign our petitions to Close Pickering and to Buy Quebec Power. And share them with your friends. Watch our 2 min. video here. 

☢ Stop OPG's  Nuclear Waste Dump Before It's Too Late Learn more about OPG’s nuke waste dump proposal in Kincardine, ON, and write Minister McKenna, Premier Wynne and PM Trudeau here.

☢ Tell the Japanese government: don’t dump nuclear waste into the ocean!

☢ Can you spare a few hours to leaflet blitz your neighbourhood mailboxes? Help us make the closure of the Pickering nuclear station a public issue. Contact: angela at cleanairalliance.org

☢ 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 hereto post in your office, school, or local cafe.

☢ Canada – Sign the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons Last year 122 member states of the United Nations voted to approve the text of a Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, but the Nuclear Weapons States voted against it as did most NATO countries including Canada. This petition asks Canada to sign the Treaty.Events

☢ Shut down the Pickering Reactors Now Tues. March 27, 8:30 - 9:30 p.m., 506 Bloor W (corner Bathurst). With Shawn-Patrick Stensil, Greenpeace.

☢ Health Risks of Nuclear Power Webinar Thur. Mar 29, 2 - 3 p.m. EDT. Join PSR (Physicians for Social Responsibility) to learn exactly why nuclear is not clean, not safe and not renewable.

☢ Reactor license renewals for Pickering and Bruce Nuclear Stations Webinar Thur. March 29, noon EST. Presenter Shawn-Patrick Stensil, Senior Energy Policy Analyst with Greenpeace Canada, will outline key issues with the upcoming reviews by the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission of applications to extend the operating licenses for the Bruce and Pickering Nuclear Stations.

 
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