No Nukes News: Chernobyl + 32 years

[Angela Bischoff]

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April 26, 2018☢ Today marks the 32nd anniversary of the Chernobyl tragedy, a day that we remember, reflect and learn from the horrors of the nuclear industry. We remember the people who lost their lives, livelihoods and communities in the worst nuclear power catastrophe in history.   



The World

☢ The Facts About Chernobyl The true impacts of the 1986 nuclear disaster on people and the environment. Brilliant overview with links compiled by Beyond Nuclear.
 
☢ Chernobyl Heart Chernobyl Heart is a 2003 documentary film which won the Best Documentary Short Subject award at the 2004 Academy Awards. Since the catastrophe, many children in Ukraine and Belarus have suffered from a previously unknown cardiac degradation condition known in the area as "Chernobyl heart", in addition to other severe radiation poisoning effects.

☢ Chernobyl Children International  CCI was formally established in 1991 to give support and hope to children living in the aftermath of the 1986 Chernobyl Nuclear disaster. “Twenty years on, young parents are giving birth to babies with disabilities or genetic disorders, or who develop serious diseases in their early months. But as far as we know, no research is being conducted into these issues.”

☢ Chernobyl... welcome to the dead zone Three decades on, the world’s worst nuclear disaster site has become an unlikely tourist spot. Around 160 villages fall within the exclusion zone, but Pripyat is the best-known. Catastrophe frozen in time: Chernobyl opens its doors to disaster tourism

☢ Dr. Timothy Mousseau speaks on consequences of Chernobyl and Fukushima 20 min. video recording. His research shows increased mutations, genetic damage, poorer performing and malformed sperm, sterility, pollen inviability, cancers, cataracts, mental retardation, fewer species, fewer numbers, deadzones, and no evidence of adaptation. Here's his website.

☢ “Wherever it Rains in the United States”: Chernobyl Doused the Whole Hemisphere 

☢ Goldman Prize Awarded to 2 South African Women Who Stopped an International Nuclear Deal Winners of the world’s leading environmental award faced down Vladimir Putin and South Africa’s recently deposed leader, Jacob Zuma, to overturn a multibillion-dollar 10-reactor nuclear deal. 

☢ Radioactive waste leaking at German storage site More than 400 barrels of low-level nuclear waste  may have to be repacked. The contents are predominantly from X-ray and cancer therapy waste. Even if the barrels are successfully repaired and moved, the question still remains -- where to put them? There is no final repository for nuclear waste.

☢ Italian nuke plant seized after sea contaminated An Italian nuclear plant in the process of being decommissioned was impounded Friday after it was found to be pouring contaminated run-off water into the Ionian Sea.

☢ Exelon Official: No New Nuclear Plants To Be Built in the U.S. Because of the plants' size and security needs, the costs have become prohibitive. 

☢ America's nuclear headache: old plutonium with nowhere to go “We are in a much more dangerous situation today than we were in the Cold War.”

☢ Quiet no more, French village becomes centre of anti-nuclear protest Hundreds of demonstrators who built a camp  were kicked out by police in Feb. but say they are there for the long run and will fight the project until the gov't changes its plans. La Hague is not designed for long-term storage and France does not have a solution 40 years after investing heavily in nuclear energy. Other countries that use nuclear power face the same problem.Ontario

☢ Can we trust the CNSC when they can't book a hotel? Want to ensure the public doesn’t interfere with your efforts to rubber stamp a new license for a nearly 50-year-old nuclear station? Then hold your hearing in an out-of-the-way location, far from the people who will actually be affected by your decision - which is what they've done for the Pickering hearing in June.

☢ Residents share Pickering nuclear concerns “As you know, the Pickering nuclear station is one of the oldest and largest stations in North America and it is also surrounded by more people than any other nuclear station on the continent,” Jack Gibbons told Council. He said a study conducted recently by Ian Fairlie, radiation biologist from the U.K, indicates a Fukushima-type disaster at the station could lead to 26,000 cancers and $125 billion in lost home values. More than 650,000 people and 154,000 homes would have to be evacuated for 30 to 100 years in the GTA.

☢ Canada has a dirty, big nuclear secret at Chalk River It may come as a surprise that we plan to put 40% of Canada’s radioactive waste in a gigantic dump at Chalk River, next to the Ottawa River. The mound would be the largest in the world – 7 stories high, 70 NFL hockey rinks. It would hold “low-level” waste that contains radioactive uranium, plutonium, cesium, strontium, iodine and tritium (among others).

☢ Activists, First Nations decry waste plan “We cannot have open season to bury nuclear waste on our lands,” Chief Hare told a news conference Monday. “The repercussions of it are too deadly. This is something we do not want to leave for our kids in the future.”
 
☢ Canada mishandling nuclear waste plans, Indigenous, environmental groups warn Representatives from local environmental advocacy groups say two other proposals for permanent radioactive waste — one in Manitoba and another in Ontario — contradict International Atomic Energy Agency guidelines.

☢ First Nations and environmental groups appeal to International community to pressure Canada to provide leadership in radioactive waste issues

☢ Mother Earth and the “too late” time - We are getting perilously close, warn First Nations End nuclear waste insanity and act on climate change urge First Nations.xxx  What nuclear power “is really producing is toxic radioactive waste that will last for eternity. A lot of attention is paid to producing electricity. Very little attention is paid to people, the environment and the land. Radioactivity is a form of nuclear energy that cannot be shut off.”

☢ Radioactive Waste and Canada's First Nations 1 hour video recording at the UN. Radioactivity causes cancer and damages unborn children. Radioactive wastes remain dangerous for hundreds of thousands of years. Radioactive poisons contaminate air, soil, food and water. Radioactive wastes are trucked through indigenous territories. Radioactive wastes are dumped on or near indigenous lands. Indigenous people have not given free prior informed consent. Indigenous communities have not been adequately consulted.Renewables and Conservation

☼ 100% Renewable Energy is Within Our Reach 100% Renewable is to the struggle for the planet’s future.

☼ Belgium to double offshore wind energy capacity as it exits nuclear power 

☼ Portugal’s Renewable Electricity Production in March Exceeded Consumption

☼ The Renewable Energy Potential is Limitless  As the world transitions to clean energy, Canada seems to be looking the other way and falling further behind. Instead, the Canadian government prefers to promote the expansion of the Alberta Tar Sands and the construction of the Kinder Morgan pipeline.

☼ 4 States Get Over 30% of Power from Wind — and All Lean Republican Even as Republican leaders remain resistant or even hostile to action on climate change, their states and districts are adopting renewable energy at some of the fastest rates in the country. US wind energy is expected to pass hydro as the nation's top renewable energy source this year.Events

☢ Pickering Hearing Prep Webinar 1 Wed. May 2, 7 p.m. Plan and prepare for the upcoming license hearing (June 26 - 28) for the Pickering Nuclear Generating Station. Deadline to sign up is May 7.

☢ Pickering Hearing Prep Webinar 2 Sat. May 5, noon. Plan and prepare for the upcoming license hearing (June 26 - 28) for the Pickering Nuclear Generating Station. Deadline to sign up is May 7.

☢ Energy Democracy Fri. May 4, 1:15 p.m. Webinar about the emerging movement that merges the decentralization of energy with strengthening of democracy and public participation.  

☢ Ensuring Universal Access to Energy Fri. May 4, 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. Ryerson University, Toronto. LIEN (Low-Income Energy Network) conference.

☢ How to Save the World in a Hurry May 30-31, University of Toronto. This public event will develop a list of public policy innovations to simultaneously reduce six global threats: war and weapons • global warming • famine • pandemics • mass radiation exposure • cyber attacks.
 
☢ No War 2018: designing a world beyond war, legalizing peace Toronto Sept. 21-22
Take Action!

☢ No Olympics or Paralympics in Radioactive Fukushima Petition

☢ 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!

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

☢ Westinghouse - Quit India International statement against the Kovvada nuclear station.

☢ 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.
 
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