#Fukushima311 : Remember Fukushima: Wales

“On March 11, we will be remembering that exactly six years have passed since the triple explosions and meltdowns at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactor site. Over 150,000 from Fukushima Prefecture were forced to leave their homes to flee from radiation, the majority of which are still living in many different parts of Japan. It is likely that many of them will never
be able to return to their homes. We also know that 300 tonnes of radioactive water flows EVERY DAY through the site of the Fukushima disaster into the Pacific Ocean. So the crisis there is as acute as ever, and we support calls for an international response to this environmental, economic and social disaster..."

more info: Remember Fukushima: Wales – Radiation Free Lakeland

Hinkley C nuclear go-ahead: May caves in to pressure from France and China - The Ecologist

Hinkley is a project from a dying era, which would saddle Britons with eye-watering costs for decades, and radioactive waste for millenia. Renewables, smart grids and energy storage are the fleet-footed mammals racing past this stumbling nuclear dinosaur.

The French and the Chinese may be celebrating the UK's decision to press ahead with the Hinkley C 'nuclear white elephant', writes Oliver Tickell. But the deal is a disaster for the UK, committing us to overpriced power for decades to come, and to a dirty, dangerous, insecure dead end technology. Just one silver lining: major economic, legal and technical hurdles mean it still may never be built.

The UK's energy department, BEIS, today announced the go-ahead for the controversial Hinkley Point C (HPC) nuclear power plant in Somerset.

Only weeks ago Theresa May's government delayed the signing of the deal with EDF to confirm its subsidy package which is likely to cost UK energy users anywhere from £30 billion to over £100 billion for 35 years after it opens...

more: Hinkley C nuclear go-ahead: May caves in to pressure from France and China - The Ecologist

whats up: #BustTheMyth – nukes are NOT carbon-free, clean, safe, green, or affordable!

Nuclear Hotseat #271: How #Radiation in Oceans Contaminates Our #Food Supply – Tim Deere-Jones

This Week’s Featured Interview:

• Tim Deere-Jones is an independent marine pollution consultant and a specialist in the behavior and fate of marine pollutants in ocean, coastal and estuarine environments. He explains how radiation in the ocean from Fukushima and the UK’s Sellafield nuclear facility have impacted food safety at tremendous distances, as far away as the US West Coast.  A jaw-dropping eye-opening report.  This is an Encore presentation originally presented on Nuclear Hotseat #225 from October 13, 2015.

Numnutz of the Week: The only thing “super” about Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe-Baby showing up dressed as Super Mario at the Rio Olympics is his gall at continuing to lie about the nuclear contamination awaiting anyone who dares to attend the 2020 Tokyo Radioactive NOlympics.  (And that ball he’s holding is pure projection, if not delusion…)

Listen Here: 

Nuclear Hotseat #271: How Radiation in Oceans Contaminates Our Food Supply – Tim Deere-Jones

Missing Links:

• Sign the Petition:  “No Olympics or Paralympics in Radioactive Fukushima!” Learn more by going to Fukushima Fallout Awareness Network.  (Thanks to FFAN for use of their gas-masked baseball pitcher as this week’s Featured Image.
• Grand Canyon tribe fears for its future amid battle against uranium mining
• Greenland Inuit oppose open-pit uranium mine on Arctic mountain-top
• Indigenous Australians Fight Planned Nuclear Dump On Sacred Lands

Coming Attractions:

Next week – USS Reagan Sailors in court on their TEPCO class action lawsuit 

and Nuclear Hotseat is there! 

Nuclear Hotseat #271: How Radiation in Oceans Contaminates Our Food Supply – Tim Deere-Jones

What Radionuclides are at Drigg Nuclear Waste Dump Near the Irish Sea? Many Still Lethal After Natural Erosion Expected to Undermine It (Still Time to Oppose Drigg-Decision 15th July) | Mining Awareness

"low level doesn’t mean low risk. Nor does it mean short-lived, as is seen below. Many have half-lives of thousands and even millions of years. Rather, this is a dilute to deceive scam so popular with illegal polluters, but this is condoned by the UK Government (as well as by the US govt)..."

read: What Radionuclides are at Drigg Nuclear Waste Dump Near the Irish Sea? Many Still Lethal After Natural Erosion Expected to Undermine It (Still Time to Oppose Drigg-Decision 15th July) | Mining Awareness

Still Time to Oppose Drigg-Decision by 15th July –Information on how to oppose Drigg found here

New #petition: Stop #Hinkley nuclear plant and spend the money on renewable instead | Greenpeace UK

Hinkley nuclear plant has suffered a further blow. The finance director for EDF, the French energy firm that plans to build the nuclear reactor, has resigned amid rumours that going ahead with the new nuclear plant could leave the company in ruins.

For almost a decade, Hinkley nuclear plant has suffered delay after delay. It's a project that is not only stands to suck up huge amounts of cash, it's directing valuable time and resources away from where the UK should be investing -- renewable energy and energy efficiency.

That's why we've launched a new petition calling on George Osborne to do what he should have done years ago and scrap the project. Here's the email I just sent out to Greenpeace's list.

Hi there,

George Osborne could be about to make a huge mistake.

He's preparing to spend billions on a new nuclear plant at Hinkley in Somerset. If it goes ahead, Hinkley is set to be the most expensive object on Earth [1] – sucking up huge amounts of money that could be spent on renewable energy instead.

But right now we’ve got a chance to stop him. The finance director of EDF -- the energy firm that plans to build the reactor -- just resigned amid concerns that Hinkley could plunge the company into a financial black hole.

It’s going to be pretty embarrassing for George Osborne if he ploughs on when Hinkley’s cost could bankrupt the company building it. So let's seize this moment to turn up the pressure on the chancellor. Let's tell him now’s the time to scrap Hinkley -- and spend consumers’ cash on renewable energy instead.

Sign the petition:
https://secure.greenpeace.org.uk/stop-hinkley

If George Osborne pushes ahead, Hinkley will be the first nuclear plant built in the UK in two decades. But the chancellor's plans are going nowhere fast. The reactor design is so complicated that no one's sure if it will even work. One nuclear expert went so far as to call it "unconstructable" [2]. And three other power stations -- in France, Finland and China -- that are trying to use the same type of reactor are suffering from huge delays too.

The cost of the project is staggering. Best guesses say Hinkley could pass £24 billion -- easily making it the most expensive power station in world history.

Personally I'm shocked that George 'Austerity' Osborne can keep on backing Hinkley, even as the cost keeps going up and up. Can you help tell him that thousands of us think that backing renewable energy is a better use of our cash? Sign the petition here:
https://secure.greenpeace.org.uk/stop-hinkley

While Hinkley nuclear plant has spent almost a decade in limbo, renewable power projects have been far quicker to build. The London Array -- the world's biggest offshore wind farm -- took less than three years to construct. And even if building Hinkley was to begin tomorrow, by the time it's up and running the cost of renewable energy will have dropped even further.

Though George Osborne might tell us we need Hinkley to keep the lights on, we know this is far from the truth. Recent research showed that as soon as 2030, the UK could be powered almost entirely by renewables [3]. The UK is one of the windiest places in Europe, we’ve got huge untapped potential in solar power, and we're surrounded by sea too. If you agree that natural sources of energy like these should top government investment, not more risky and expensive nuclear power, please sign the petition now:
https://secure.greenpeace.org.uk/stop-hinkley

Thanks for being involved,

Richard Casson
Greenpeace UK

NOTES
1. http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2014/12/why-is-britain-building-the-most-expensive-object-ever/
2. http://energydesk.greenpeace.org/2014/11/20/comment-trouble-hinkleys-reactor-design/
3. http://www.greenpeace.org.uk/blog/climate/replace-coal-power-without-trashing-planet-20151124

New petition: Stop Hinkley nuclear plant and spend the money on renewable instead | Greenpeace UK

Feb. 27 Stop Trident March & Rally; LONDON | CNDUK, Medact, ICAN, ICRC

Help us mobilise thousands to Stop Trident

> Stop Trident national demo

Medact, emphasising the health impact and humanitarian consequences of the use of nuclear weapons, is one of the supporting organisations for the CND-led Stop Trident March and Rally being held in London on Saturday 27th February at 12 noon.

Nuclear weapons are the most destructive and most indiscriminate instruments of war ever created. Their use—and even their possession—goes against every principle of international humanitarian law. Indeed, it is likely that humanity could not survive a nuclear war using even a fraction of the arsenals in existence today...

MORE: Stop Trident March & Rally - Medact

As memory of Chernobyl, Fukushima fades, activists renew nuclear warning

2011 disaster survivors urge UK to ditch atomic plans:  “Don’t consider Fukushima as something that could never never happen to you. It could.”

READ: As memory of Chernobyl, Fukushima fades, activists renew nuclear warning

Why October 21 will become known as International Embarrassment Day | GreenWorld (hint: HINKLEY)

...Yesterday, the government of the UK signed a deal with China that makes Chinese nuclear firms one-third partners, with EDF holding the other 2/3, in the project to build two new EPR reactors at Hinkley Point, at a cost estimated to be at least $25 Billion, and probably much more. Completion date is said to be 2025. In financial terms, it is the single largest project ever undertaken in the U.K. And yes, as an incentive, EDF gets to sell that electricity at about twice the going rate. And yes, the government has promised a multi-billion dollar loan guarantee too...

READ: Why October 21 will become known as International Embarrassment Day | GreenWorld

When the party's over ... the financial spectre at the end of nuclear power - The Ecologist

There are two rules about the end costs of nuclear power, writes Ian Fairlie. It's far more than you ever knew. And whatever sum of money was ever set aside, it's nowhere near enough. Germany understands this. That's why it refused to let E.ON spin off its nuclear liabilities into a hands-off company. But the UK, it seems, has lost the ability to learn from its nuclear mistakes...

READ: When the party's over ... the financial spectre at the end of nuclear power - The Ecologist

#petition :: STOP MOORSIDE: "Biggest Nuclear Development in Europe" | Campaigns by You

We urge David Cameron and the leaders of Europe to scrap plans for Moorside. The UK Government is planning to sell a vast area of Cumbria to the same companies responsible for the Fukushima disaster, so that they can build new nuclear reactors. Please don't risk the safety of Europe by turning Cumbria into a nuclear sacrifice zone.

SIGN NOW: STOP MOORSIDE: "Biggest Nuclear Development in Europe" | Campaigns by You

3.19 Taunton, Somerset, UK: Public Meeting – Radioactive Waste In Somerset

Will EDF and the government turn Hinkley into a high level waste storage facility for 160 years and beyond? Who knows about Nuclear Waste?

The next campaign meetings are on Mondays February 16th
and March 16th. at West Bow House, Milton Place off West Street, Bridgwater TA6 3RT 
at 7pm [NB earlier start] 
The meetings are held on the third Monday of the month. All members are very welcome to attend.
The Stop Hinkley social meeting have been stopped for the time being.

Stop Hinkley –

stophinkley.org | EVENTS

[3.11] 4TH ANNIVERSARY EVENTS IN LONDON | REMEMBER FUKUSHIMA | NO TO NUCLEAR POWER

TUESDAY 10 MARCH 2015:

PUBLIC MEETING in the House of Commons

hosted by Jenny Jones, Baroness Jones of Moulscoomb

please RSVP to let us know if you’d like to attend so we can have an idea of numbers: email rememberfukushima311@gmail.com

committee room tba 19:00 – 20:30

click here for more info

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WEDNESDAY 11 MARCH 2015 – the actual anniversary of the Fukushima disaster:

VIGIL opposite the Japanese Embassy 101 Piccadilly London W1J 7JT

17:30 – 19:30

click here for more info

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SATURDAY 14 MARCH 2015:

MARCH ON PARLIAMENT

assemble Hyde Park Corner at 12:00 for start at 12:30

followed by:  RALLY  at old Palace Yard opposite the House of Commons from 14:30

click here for more info

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WEDNESDAY 18 MARCH 2015:

TALK by DR IAN FAIRLIE

The Granville Community Kitchen, Kilburn, London

please RSVP to let us know if you’d like to attend so we can have an idea of numbers: email fairlietalkmarch18@gmail.com

click here for more info

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other 311 events in the UK

other 311 events around the world

films re 311

art exhibitions re 311

our friends in Japan

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organised by: CND, JAN UK, KICK NUCLEAR:

http://www.cnduk.org

http://www.januk.org

REMEMBER FUKUSHIMA | NO TO NUCLEAR POWER (fukushima2015.com)

12 JUNE; Bristol, UK: WITCH WATCH - Full moon gathering at Hinkley Point | Stop Hinkley

"for as long as it takes"

new facebook page -

https://www.facebook.com/witchwatchatHinkleyPoint



Witch Watch is a 24hour vigil - sometimes longer - held on the night of the Full Moon when she is still waxing. WW evolved to defend Mother Earth as part of the Stop Hinkley C campaign and the proposed new build of nuclear power stations in Britain.

The camp glimmers in the hedgerow of the last lay-by, on the main road into the power station, near Bridgwater, Somerset. All are welcome to join us but the camp is women only after daylight hours.
WW provides a meeting place to make connection, share information and to bring your magic. A Sacred Fire is lit and tended through the night.

Witch Watch bears on-site witness and observation of the destruction and construction that is taking place, and holds a positive intention for a different future and the need for balance in the world. Best to ring 07874 819 608 before you come to check for last minute change of plans.

For more info ring 07874 819608 or email.



STOP HINKLEY  #stophinkley
http://stophinkley.org/

http://stophinkley.org/Events.htm


Southwest AgainstNuclear
https://www.facebook.com/SouthWestAgainstNuclear

2.15 BRISTOL UK Make a Nuclear Barrel Workshop.jpg

We are gonna make Barrels!!!!
Bristol Swans have discovered the power of street theatre

We will be assisted in making nuclear barrels
by Bridgwater Carnival artists
Jo and partner
we have enough material for 20 Barrels
we have caught a lot of attention while wearing these
+good conversations and a good laugh

we have visions of meet ups on national scale
did someone say flash mob?
we will be making a small film on the day with instructions for groups all over the country

Below is a rough film of the kind of theatre we have done
with the barrels

Make a Nuclear Barrel Workshop-Bristol (facebook event page)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSCZirTSkII

swanactive - YouTube


southwestagainstnuclear | No Nukes is good news!

Southwest AgainstNuclear on facebook

2.14 SOMERSET UK: WITCH WATCH Full Moon Vigil :: #stophinkley

Witch Watch is a 24hour vigil - sometimes longer - held on the night of the Full Moon when she is still waxing. WW evolved to defend Mother Earth as part of the Stop Hinkley C campaign and the proposed new build of nuclear power stations in Britain.

The camp glimmers in the hedgerow of the last lay-by, on the main road into the power station, near Bridgwater, Somerset. All are welcome to join us but the camp is women only after daylight hours.

WW provides a meeting place to make connection, share information and to bring your magic. A Sacred Fire is lit and tended through the night.

Witch Watch bears on-site witness and observation of the destruction and construction that is taking place, and holds a positive intention for a different future and the need for balance in the world.

The next date is Monday 16th December. Best to ring 07874 819 608 before you come to check for last minute change of plans.

For more info ring 07874 819608 or email.

facebook.com/events/695439247167953/

http://stophinkley.org/Events.htm

1.15 UK: WITCH WATCH FULL MOON VIGIL AT #HINKLEY POINT

Witch Watch is a 24hour vigil - sometimes longer - held on the night of the Full Moon when she is still waxing. WW evolved to defend Mother Earth as part of the Stop Hinkley C campaign and the proposed new build of nuclear power stations in Britain.

The camp glimmers in the hedgerow of the last lay-by, on the main road into the power station, near Bridgwater, Somerset. All are welcome to join us but the camp is women only after daylight hours.
WW provides a meeting place to make connection, share information and to bring your magic. A Sacred Fire is lit and tended through the night.

Witch Watch bears on-site witness and observation of the destruction and construction that is taking place, and holds a positive intention for a different future and the need for balance in the world.
The next date is Monday 16th December. Best to ring 07874 819 608 before you come to check for last minute change of plans.

For more info ring 07874 819608 or email.

"I can be a little minimalist, so for those of ye who haven't read about WW before, here's a little background. Making connection where they split the building blocks of life, WW has had a peaceful, for life and anti nuclear presence in the last lay-by, just before the gates of Hinkley Point, on every full moon since June 2012. With sacred fire, and a combination of prayers, positive intention and meditation, folk bring whatever beliefs or points of view have meaning to them. We gather, share food, have fun and usually stroll to the gates at some point for a performance, ceremony or the like. Often Pixies Mound is visited, a pre historic burial mound that sits by the existing B site. Visitors are very welcome but we ask that the camp is women only over night."

https://www.facebook.com/events/252212378272451/

http://stophinkley.org/Events.htm

1.11 UK: London Region CND AGM, Annual Conference

AGM 10:00 Registration 10:30 Apologies. Chair's welcome and review of past year 10:50 Reports from local CND Groups in London 11:10 Discussion of current issues 11:40 Treasurer's report 11:45 Reports from the Nuclear Trains Action Group, and from the Campaign against the DESi Arms Fair 11:55 Endorsement of those standing for election as LRCND Officers and for LRCND Delegates to CND Council. Election of Ordinary Members of the LRCND Executive Conference 12:00 Speaker: Rebecca Johnson, CND Vice President: "Ban the Bomb", followed by questions and discussion. 12:45 Announcements 12:50 Lunch 14:00 Results of the elections of Ordinary members, followed by Gary Chirardi introducing "Countering the Militarisation of Youth" program of War Resisters International. 14:10 Parallel workshops: 1) Trident Replacement, introduced by Ben Foley 2) Why nuclear power is not the answer to global warming, introduced by Ian Fairlie 15:05 Tea 15:20 Parallel workshops: 1) The anti-war movement and conscientious objection in the First World War, introduced by Neil Faulkner 2) The Middle East - opportunities and grave dangers, introduced by Sami Ramadani 16:15 Speaker: Jeremy Corbyn MP, "A nuclear-free Middle East", followed by questions and discussion 17:00 Close The AGM is open to all members of LRCND, members of national CND and CND affiliated groups living in London, and members of London CND groups. The Conference, from midday onwards, is open to all.

https://www.facebook.com/events/709306879104030/

11.16 UK: WITCH WATCH FULL MOON VIGIL | Stop Hinkley

4PM ONWARDS. Come and make connection where they split the building blocks of life... Visitors and dry wood welcome... Women only overnight Ring 07874819608 Follow the 'Hinkley Point' Deliveries' signs...

Witch Watch is a 24hour vigil - sometimes longer - held on the night of the Full Moon when she is still waxing. WW evolved to defend Mother Earth as part of the Stop Hinkley C campaign and the proposed new build of nuclear power stations in Britain.

WW provides a meeting place to make connection, share information and to bring your magic. A Sacred Fire is lit and tended through the night.

The camp glimmers in the hedgerow of the last lay-by, on the main road into the power station, near Bridgwater, Somerset. All are welcome to join us but the camp is women only after daylight hours.

Witch Watch bears on-site witness and observation of the destruction and construction that is taking place, and holds a positive intention for a different future and the need for balance in the world.

The remaining 2013 dates are: Saturday 16th November and Monday 16th December. Best to ring before you come to check for last minute change of plans.

For more info ring 07874 819608 or click here to email.

(facebook) WITCH WATCH FULL MOON VIGIL

Stop Hinkley

10.3 BRISTOL: Day Trip to Britain's Nuclear Bomb Factory

OCTOBER 3, BRISTOL UK:

Day Trip to Britain's Nuclear Bomb Factory

> facebook event page

9.18 UK: WITCH WATCH FULL MOON VIGIL | Stop Hinkley

Witch Watch is a 24hour vigil - sometimes longer - held on the night of the Full Moon when she is still waxing. WW evolved to defend Mother Earth as part of the Stop Hinkley C campaign and the proposed new build of nuclear power stations in Britain.

The camp glimmers in the hedgerow of the last lay-by, on the main road into the power station, near Bridgwater, Somerset. All are welcome to join us but the camp is women only after daylight hours.
WW provides a meeting place to make connection, share information and to bring your magic. A Sacred Fire is lit and tended through the night.

Witch Watch bears on-site witness and observation of the destruction and construction that is taking place, and holds a positive intention for a different future and the need for balance in the world.

The remaing dates for 2013 dates are:
Wednesday 18th September,
Friday 19th October,
Saturday 16th November
and Monday 16th December.

Best to ring before you come to check for last minute change of plans.
For more info ring 07874 819608 or click here to email.

STOP HINKLEY | EVENTS

facebook event page for Sept. 18