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Monday, May 8, 2017
UPDATED ::: Rally and Nonviolent Action @ Livermore Lab on August 9 to commemorate Hiroshima & Nagasaki bombing, and protest nukes!
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Sunday, May 7, 2017
Wildfires near Fukushima reignite Chernobyl-like fears of contamination - Bellona.org
Wildfires that broke out in a mountain forest near the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant last weekend are causing worries that radiation from the 2011 disaster might be spread with the smoke, dust and flames.
Eight helicopters from Fukushima, Miyagi and Gunma prefectures were dispatched to Mount Juman in Naime in the north east of the country, where radiation levels have remained high since the Fukushima plant experienced a triple meltdown in the worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl in 1986.
When these helicopters couldn’t stop the blaze, said the Manichi, local officials summoned help from the Ground Self-Defense Force, a branch of the Japanese military.
The fire was apparently started by lighting in the abandoned area, which the Japanese government has designated as a “difficult-to-return” zone, meaning that evacuees of the initial disaster have not returned home due to persistently high radiation measurements.
The dangers arising from the fires in the irradiated area are similar to those that Russia and Ukraine combated when wildfires ripped through areas surrounding Chernobyl and the Mayak Chemical Combine during a drought-racked summer in 2010.
Fires around nuclear accident sites can spread radionuclides like cesium-137, strontium-90 and plutonium that can travel with the wind, posing a risk of internal exposure to anyone who might inhale them, said Anton Beneslavsky, a firefighter who worked to extinguish the blazes near Chernobyl, according to the International Business Times.
“This is a health concern because when these unstable atoms are inhaled, people become internally exposed to radiation,” he wrote in a blog post for Greenpeace Russia…
more: Wildfires near Fukushima reignite Chernobyl-like fears of contamination - Bellona.org
Wednesday, May 3, 2017
Yucca Mountain: Serpent Swimming Westward – Indigenous Action Media
(27 APRIL 2017) The Trump administration & Congress are renewing the threat to turn sacred Yucca Mountain, located on Western Shoshone Lands near Las Vegas, Nevada, into a massive nuclear waste dump.
Yesterday, on the 31st anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, the House Committee on Energy and Commerce held a hearing in Washington, DC to initiate the legislative process.
Congress is considering amendments to the Nuclear Waste Policy Amendments Act that would restart operations that began in 1982. If the Yucca Mountain project is allowed to proceed, it would mean transport of highly radioactive waste from throughout the country’s nuclear power plants to this site. More than 70,000 tons of spent nuclear fuel and high-level waste would be dumped inside the sacred mountain…
Congress is considering amendments to the Nuclear Waste Policy Amendments Act that would restart operations that began in 1982. If the Yucca Mountain project is allowed to proceed, it would mean transport of highly radioactive waste from throughout the country’s nuclear power plants to this site. More than 70,000 tons of spent nuclear fuel and high-level waste would be dumped inside the sacred mountain…
Yucca Mountain is located on Western Shoshone land. The NCAC has also legally challenged U.S. federal ownership of the site as a violation of the 1863 Treaty of Ruby Valley.
more: Yucca Mountain: Serpent Swimming Westward – Indigenous Action Media
Ongoing St. Louis Nuclear Nightmare: West Lake Landfill Fire – Dawn Chapman, Jan Huber – Nuclear Hotseat #306
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| Ongoing St. Louis Nuclear Nightmare: West Lake Landfill Fire |
LISTEN NOW
This Week’s Featured Interviews:
- Dawn Chapman, one of the founders of Just Moms StL who lives only a few miles away from the West Lake Landfill.
- Jan Huber bought her home in North St. Louis in 2000, never understanding that it was one mile away from a nuclear time bomb that had been going off for years.
Numnutz of the Week (for outstanding Nuclear Boneheadedness):
It wasn’t bad enough that we’ve trashed our own planet with ever-growing levels of nuclear radiation; now we bring our bad actions to a whole new planet… and on Earth Day!
The Missing Links:
- Karl Grossman nuclear archive at the East Hampton Library.
- Shaun McGee source notes and links on European stories.
- Challenge to Florida Power and Light plan to store nuclear waste under Miami’s drinking water.
LISTEN NOW: Ongoing St. Louis Nuclear Nightmare: West Lake Landfill Fire – Dawn Chapman, Jan Huber – Nuclear Hotseat #306
Tuesday, May 2, 2017
Nuclear Free Strong Beer Fest • Friday 19 May 2017 • Berkeley, CA
Event in Berkeley
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Organized by : Triple Rock Brewing
Triple Rock is hosting the first-ever Nuclear Free Strong Beer Festival on May 19th starting at 4pm, featuring the rarest and coolest BIG beers from our friends. We've got a bunch of awesome breweries join us for this celebration of strong and rare beers. Strong, hoppy, boozy, sticky, dank, sour... doesn't matter, just as long as it's not radioactive.
Entry to this event is FREE to the public. Proceeds will support Lindsay Wildlife Experience, a local non-profit connecting people with wildlife to inspire responsibility and respect for the world we share.
EDITORIAL: The Washington Post Editorial Board's Epic Fail on 'Carbon-Free' Nuclear Power - EnviroNews | The Environmental News Specialists
...Not once, but twice in its short opinion writeup, WaPo‘s editorial board flippantly refers to nuclear power as “carbon-free.” This statement could not be further from the truth. A minor investigation on the part of WaPo‘s editorial team would have quickly revealed that this statement is outright nonsense — yet the publication’s editors chose to let it fly. But why?
From a investigative reporter’s point-of-view, it would be low-hanging fruit to discover, not only is nuclear energy not carbon-free, it is on the contrary carbon-intensive.
…Thus far, WaPo has issued no official correction or retraction. It did however choose to publish a very short letter to the editor criticizing the editorial, authored by Paki Wieland from Northampton, Massachusetts. The letter, titled, Plenty of carbon used in nuclear energy, reads:
The April 2 editorial “Nuclear energy in peril” referred to nuclear energy as carbon-free. It is not carbon-free.
If we look at nuclear power in whole, from the uranium mining to the dismantling of nuclear power plants, there is an extraordinary use of energy, from the initial devastation of the environment where the uranium is mined to the costly cleanup.
The impact on the environment continues through every phase of nuclear-energy production. A deep look into the issue of nuclear power would lead to overwhelming evidence to support ending nuclear power as a source of energy.
While it is good WaPo‘s opinion editors chose to publish this dissenting viewpoint, it is far from an official correction or retraction of the original piece. It is also the opinion of the EnviroNews Board that WaPo should make a correction or retract its editorial entirely…
more: EDITORIAL: The Washington Post Editorial Board's Epic Fail on 'Carbon-Free' Nuclear Power - EnviroNews | The Environmental News Specialists
Monday, May 1, 2017
All Levels of Radiation Confirmed to Cause Cancer (2005) | NIRS |
BEIR VII or seventh Biological Effects of Ionizing Radiation report on “Health Risks from Exposure to Low Levels of Ionizing Radiation
Washington, DC July 30, 2005 | The National Academies of Science released an over 700-page report yesterday on the risks from ionizing radiation. The BEIR VII or seventh Biological Effects of Ionizing Radiation report on “Health Risks from Exposure to Low Levels of Ionizing Radiation” reconfirmed the previous knowledge that there is no safe level of exposure to radiation—that even very low doses can cause cancer. Risks from low dose radiation are equal or greater than previously thought. The committee reviewed some additional ways that radiation causes damage to cells.
Among the reports conclusions are:
There is no safe level or threshold of ionizing radiation exposure.
Even exposure to background radiation causes some cancers. Additional exposures cause additional risks.
Radiation causes other health effects such as heart disease and stroke, and further study is needed to predict the doses that result in these non-cancer health effects.
It is possible that children born to parents that have been exposed to radiation could be affected by those exposures.
The “bystander effect” is an additional, newly recognized method by which radiation injures cells that were not directly hit but are in the vicinity of those that were. “Genomic instability” can be caused by exposure to low doses of radiation and according to the report “might contribute significantly to radiation cancer risk.” These new mechanisms for radiation damage were not included in the risk estimates reported by the BEIR VII report, but were recommended for further study.
The Linear-No-Threshold model (LNT) for predicting health effects from radiation (dose-response) is retained, meaning that every exposure causes some risk and that risks are generally proportional to dose. The Dose and Dose-Rate Effectiveness Factor or DDREF which had been suggested in the 1990 BEIR V report to be applied at low doses, has been reduced from 2 to 1.5. That means the projected number of health effects at low doses are greater than previously thought...
more: All Levels of Radiation Confirmed to Cause Cancer. - NIRS
Oceanside Public Meeting on Beach Nuclear Waste Facility ~ San Onofre
Citizens Oversight sued the Coastal Commission and now we are entering settlement discussions. Although settlement discussions are required to be confidential to allow frank discussion, we want to be open to public input on the matter of where nuclear waste from San Onofre will be stored. This meeting, at the Oceanside City Council Chambers on May 4, from 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm, will be transcribed and included in the public file for the lawsuit. Until now, we, the public, have had almost no opportunity to weigh in on this project, with only two minutes provided at the California Coastal Commission meeting in Long Beach in October, 2015. Here, we have an opportunity to stop 3.6 million pounds of nuclear waste from being stored only 100 feet from the ocean and only inches over the high-tide salt water mark. Recently updated research has determined that there is a geologic fault capable of creating a 7.4 magnitude earthquake nearby. By leaving this nuclear waste so near the coastline, we provide an easy target for a boat or a drone. If an accident or an intentional act or typical corrosion causes radioactive leakage, the resulting chain reaction could cause the California coast to become radioactive and uninhabitable to humans, and to all life, for up to 250,000 years...in other words, forever. *You* can save the ocean! *You* can save life! Show up to this meeting. Speak your mind.
More information about the case is at this link:
copswiki.org/Common/StopNukeDump
Oceanside Public Meeting on Beach Nuclear Waste Facility (Facebook event page)
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