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26th Anniversary of Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster | NUCLEAR “SAFTEY” = NUCLEAR THREAT

26th Anniversary of Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster

GABRIELA BULISOVA photo – Chernobyl Children International

It was 26 years ago today when a deadly explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the former Soviet state of Ukraine led to what was then the worst nuclear disaster in history. It sent a cloud of radioactive fallout into Russia, Belarus and over a large portion of Europe.

All nuclear reactors and their waste should be declared illegal, and can be considered crimes against humanity and the ecosphere – all governments and corporations and their officers should be made directly liable for the immediate decommissioning of all nuclear power plants, and for the security, clean up and management of the eternal quagmire of nuclear waste that they have created.

see also: Nuclear Power = Crime Against Humanity

Chernobyl nuclear reactor after the disaster. Reactor 4 (center). Turbine building (lower left). Reactor 3 (center right). This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons

much more at whats up: 25th Anniversary of Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster | NUCLEAR “SAFTEY” = NUCLEAR THREAT

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Helen Caldicott: “Educate those Corporate Prostitutes in Congress”

Helen Caldicott “Educate those Corporate Prostitutes in Congress” – YouTube

On day one of NOW DC ( http://nowdc.org ) Helen Caldicot speaks at the EPA about nuclear radiation and the need to shut down the dozens of reactors in the United States that are identical to the Fukishima plant and they are also on mostly on fault lines.

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The Activists Occupy Entergy!

The Activists Occupy Entergy! Starring our anti-nuclear heroes! (A homage to “The Artist”.) – YouTube

Eight intrepid heroes from the New England Natural Guard affinity group, traveled to New Orleans, the headquarters of nuclear corporation, Entergy. They were there to occupy Entergy HQ on the day that the Vermont Yankee nuclear reactor, owned by Entergy, should have ceased operation. Putting up crime scene tapes and holding banners, the group refused to leave without a meeting with Entergy CEO, J. Wayne Leonard. No meeting happened. 7 of the 8 agreed to be arrested, and were detained and released. Their actions came in solidarity with allies in Vermont, 1,000 of whom marched in Brattleboro, while a second affinity group of 5 were arrested at Entergy Regional HQ in White Plains, NY. The State of Vermont voted in February 2010 to shut the 40-year old Vermont Yankee plant when its license expired on March 21, 2012, a decision that was over-ruled by the federal government and Entergy which sued to keep the plant running in defiance of states’ rights.

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Three Lessons of Fukushima, One Year Later

As we approach on March 11 the one-year anniversary of the Fukushima nuclear disaster, it’s a good time to take heed of the lessons from that tragic event.

Lesson one: Governments lie.


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Three Lessons of Fukushima, One Year Later | The Progressive

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Shadowlands – photographs & stories from Fukushima

Shadowlands – photographs & stories from Fukushima

Robert Knoth and Antoinette de Jong visited the Fukushima region with Greenpeace in the autumn of 2011 to bear witness to the effects wrought on the region by the nuclear fallout from the triple meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.

The shadow of radiation now looms over the people, the animals, and the environment of this area of Japan. Well-kept agricultural land is now becoming wild, children’s play areas and petrol stations are contaminated and abandoned, and nature is taking back roads. Each photo captures the eerie beauty of a region left in limbo as radioactive fallout permeates all aspects of life.

This video was produced to accompany the exhibition. The interactive exhibition can be found at www.greenpeace.org/shadowlands.

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Shining the Light on the Triple Meltdown at Fukushima | OCCUPY NUCLEAR

There were ample warnings that both TEPCO and Japan’s regulators ignored steps that would have prevented this tragedy. Throughout the world, nuclear oversight has been compromised by the revolving door and cozy relationship between the nuclear industry and the so-called nuclear regulators who promote nuclear power rather than regulate.

Shining the Light on the Triple Meltdown at Fukushima Daiichi on Vimeo | Fairewinds Energy Education on Vimeo | Updates on Fukushima: | Fairewinds Associates, Inc

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– – – NEW NUKES ALERT – – –
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission has scheduled a vote for Feb. 9 on Southern Co.’s application for the first construction permit to build nuclear reactors in more than 30 years. The two Westinghouse nukes are already under construction at Plant Vogtle in Georgia.

Note this (meeting) is not to “make a final decision” on the Combined Operating License for the Vogtle units, but to affirm the decision of the earlier mandatory hearing that there are “no environmental or safety reasons not to approve the COL” – once the Commission affirms the hearing findings, the staff is authorized to issue the COL

Your tax dollars at work – The U.S. Energy Department in February 2010 conditionally approved an $8.3 billion loan guarantee to help the company build the two reactors. – this ok with you?

OCCUPY NUCLEAR, February 9, 2012 –

• NRC: Rockville, Maryland | other NRC Locations

• Southern Company: NW Atlanta, GA

• Vogtle Electric Generating Plant: Burke County, near Waynesboro, Georgia

• Westinghouse Nuclear: Cranberry Township, Butler County, Pennsylvania

more info, maps, etc > whats up: OCCUPY NUCLEAR – New Nukes | February 9

got nukes?

want to help? – find your closest nuke plant(s), look up the type and status of the reactor(s) and/or other facilites; and find out who the owners & operators are. then we can talk about some organizing and actions! – who is already working on the nuclear issue in your area – what next? 🙂

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who is nuking in your back yard ???


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try a google map search, use the name of your state & see what comes up

note – the page “whats up: OCCUPY NUCLEAR” includes links and an extensive list of nuclear reactors in the US – way more than the “104 operational nukes” that you hear about


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see also: FREEZE OUR FUKUSHIMAS – March Against Nuclear Madness!

Beyond Nuclear – Home

FREEZE OUR FUKUSHIMAS!

Become a co-petitioner to NRC and support the Beyond Nuclear call for the suspension of the 23 Fukushima-style reactors operating in the US.

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whats up: Nukespeak is a classic! | Karl Grossman

Nukespeak is a classic!

Award-winning investigative journalist Karl Grossman interviews Nukespeak co-author Rory O’Connor on Grossman’s nationally-aired TV program, Enviro-Close-Up. Grossman has been a journalist for more than 40 years, and is a professor of journalism at the State University of New York/College at Old Westbury. He is also the chief investigative reporter for WVVH-TV.

Grossman said he was happy to be talking about the 30th anniversary updated edition of Nukespeak: “Of the books written about nuclear technology through the years, Nukespeak is a classic. The new edition of Nukespeak has been updated — with four new chapters — and added to its title is: The Selling of Nuclear Technology from the Manhattan Project to Fukushima. It tells how nuclear promoters have been — and continue — using Orwellian language to try to hide the truth about the deadly dangers of nuclear technology.”

more > whats up: Nukespeak is a classic! | Karl Grossman

EnviroVideo presents Enviro Close-UP with Karl Grossman on blip.tv

A EnviroVideo produces environmental and social justice programs for television – including interview and news shows, specials, and documentaries. The underlying premise of EnviroVideo is that there are critical environmental issues at hand that can best be communicated to large numbers of people through the media most favored for news and information – television and the Internet. And if there is broad public awareness, pressing environmental matters can be dealt with and action taken to truly resolve them.

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Annya’s story – a Chernobyl legacy | whats up: 25th Anniversary of Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster | NUCLEAR “SAFTEY” = NUCLEAR THREAT

Annya's story – a Chernobyl legacy

Belarus: Annya’s parents lived in a town so contaminated by the Chernobyl nuclear disaster that it was destroyed and buried. When she was four Annya was diagnosed with a brain tumor…

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• whats up: 25th Anniversary of Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster | NUCLEAR "SAFTEY" = NUCLEAR THREAT

• whats up: RC'S NUCLEAR BLOG

After the first few posts it became basically a news blog about the ongoing Fukushima Nuclear Catastrophe with related nuclear news and commentary – not so random anymore, it has become progressively more activist...

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whats up: China Syndrome | No cold shutdown possible at Fukushima

there can and will be
no cold shutdown
of the Fukushima plant

Is there a China Syndrome at Fukushima

December, 2011: Paul Gunter, Beyond Nuclear joins Thom Hartmann. The crisis at Fukushima continues. Over the weekend – the crippled Japanese nuclear plant spewed even more highly radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean – roughly 45,000 liters in all. According to a French nuclear research institute – since the Fukushima nuclear crisis began in March – the plant has leaked more radioactive material into the ocean than has ever happened before in the history of the planet. And he claims that after more than 8 months since an earthquake and tsunami triggered this crisis – it’s inevitable that nuclear fuel has leaked into the groundwater – meaning the “China Syndrome” is officially upon us. He also warned that if underground water gets overheated – it could trigger a hydrovolcanic explosion. So what does all this mean? Time to ditch nuclear power – the most expensive and dangerous form of energy on Earth.

Beyond Nuclear – Home

Fukushima’s Cold Shutdown Condition | Nukespeak

“I just checked in to see what condition my condition is in.”

One of the truly scary but perversely enjoyable characteristics of nuclear developers is their penchant for making it up as they go along – and then creating new Nukespeak words and concepts to describe what they’re up to as they do.

The latest example concerns the situation at Japan’s still-dangerous Fukushima Daiichi plant and comes to us via the Nuclear Energy Institute and its “Ask an Expert” question-and-answer page:

Question: What is “cold shutdown?”

TEPCO understood this important nuance to achieving “cold shutdown” early on this year when it developed its initial recovery plans and developed a new term, “cold shutdown condition,” which applies to how they are bringing the reactors to stable condition.

more > whats up: China Syndrome | No cold shutdown possible at Fukushima | whats up (RC’S NUCLEAR BLOG)

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telling the truth about radiation

Japan Crowd Funding.mp4

A story telling the truth about radiation from Fukushima nuclear disaster. This video is to raise funds for our crowd funding campaign for ‘In Transition 2’. If you want to see how Transition Initiatives are responding to the situation then please donate! The money will pay for a film maker to shoot a story about the importance of setting up local renewable energy companies.

Breaking the Information Monopoly | Nukespeak

How do we know whether to believe what government officials tell us about the danger of radiation after a nuclear accident like Fukushima New technologies are making it possible for citizens to break the government’s information monopoly, so that citizens can double-check the “no danger” announcements that government officials tend to issue after nuclear accidents.

Nukespeak | Nuclear Language, Myths and Mindset

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seven sins of nuclear power

The Truth About Nuclear Power: Japanese Nuclear Engineer Calls for Abolition　　核の真実−−日本の核技術者、廃絶を訴える :: JapanFocus

The seven sins of nuclear power

“(In closing,) – I would like to quote the “seven social sins” that Mahatma Gandhi warned against, and which are inscribed on his tombstone. The first is “Politics without Principle.” To those who gathered here today, I would like you to take these words deeply to heart. Gandhi’s other sins, such as “Wealth without Work,” “Pleasure without Conscience,” “Knowledge without Character,” “Commerce without Morality,” all apply to electric power companies, including TEPCO. And with “Science without Humanity,” I would challenge academia and its all-out involvement with the nation’s nuclear power policy, and that includes myself. The last one is “Worship without Sacrifice.” To those who have faith, please take these words to heart, too. Thank you very much.”

Koide Hiroaki began his career as a nuclear engineer forty years ago drawn to the promise of nuclear power. Quickly, however, he recognized the flaws in Japan’s nuclear power program and emerged as among the best informed of Japan’s nuclear power critic. His cogent public critique of the nuclear village earned him an honourable form of purgatory as a permanent assistant professor at Kyoto University. Koide would pay a price in career terms, continuing his painstaking research on radio nuclide measurement at Kyoto University’s Research Reactor Institute (KURRI) in the shadows. Until 3.11.

Since the earthquake tsunami and nuclear meltdown at Fukushima Daiichi, he has emerged as a powerful voice and a central figure in charting Japan’s future energy course in the wake of disaster: in scores of well attended public lectures, in daily media consultations and interviews, in his widely read posts and in three books that have helped to redefine public consciousness and official debate…

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whats up: Truth About Nuclear Power | Lethal Levels of Radiation

August 1, 2011
Nuclear Crisis in Japan

NIRS: Tepco reported today the highest radiation levels yet measured at Fukushima Daiichi—1,000 Rems/hour (10 Sieverts/hour)—a lethal dose. The measurements were taken at the base of the ventilation stack for Units 1 and 2 (the stack that did not work during the accident). The actual levels may have been more than measured, since the monitoring equipment could not measure more than 10 Sieverts/hour. Workers sent to the area to confirm the measurements, which were first picked up by a gamma measuring camera, received doses of about 400 millirems in just a few minutes.

Lies, Damn Lies, and Safe Nuclear Power

Rankin & Dub Ainu Band “You can’t see it, and you can’t smell it either “

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Radiation is scary, radiation is dangerous, you can’t see or smell it, and you can’t run from it

Independent Media Center | www.indymedia.org | ((( i ))): “Lies, Damn Lies, and Safe Nuclear Power – by Stephen Lendman

In any form, nuclear power is inherently unsafe. For decades, nuclear expert Helen Caldicott warned it must be abandoned, saying:

‘As a physician, I contend that nuclear technology threatens life on our planet with extinction. If present trends continue, the air we breathe, the food we eat, and the water we drink will soon be contaminated with enough radioactive pollutants to pose a potential health hazard far greater than any plague humanity has ever experienced.’

Anti-nuclear activist/expert Professor Karl Grossman agrees, calling ‘Atomic Energy: Unsafe in the Real World’ in his June 29 article, saying:

‘Nuclear power requires perfection and no acts of God’ to avoid accidents that may become catastrophes. Humans and technology aren’t perfect. Natural and other type disasters happen. ‘(W)e can’t eliminate them. But we can – and must eliminate atomic energy’ or it will eliminate us.

On March 18, Bloomberg said Japan’s Fukushima disaster ‘follows decades of falsified safety reports, fatal accidents and underestimated earthquake risks in Japan’s atomic power industry.’

The same is true in America and elsewhere – governments, regulators, and power companies suppressing vital truths, instead of shutting down inherently unsafe plants, making all of them ticking bombs…”

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whats up: You can't see it, and you can't smell it either | Nuclear Nightmare Unfolding: “Everyone knows about Chernobyl, Three Mile Island and, now, Fukushima. But what about Semipalatinsk, Palomares and Kyshtym? The world is full of nuclear disaster zones — showing just how dangerous the technology really is.”

Atomic Cover-Up: The Hidden Story Behind the U.S. Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Atomic Cover-Up: The Hidden Story Behind the U.S. Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Democracy Now!
August 9, 2011
"As radiation readings in Japan reach their highest levels since the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant meltdowns, we look at the beginning of the atomic age. Today is the 66th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of Nagasaki, which killed some 75,000 people and left another 75,000 seriously wounded. It came just three days after the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, killing around 80,000 people and injuring some 70,000. By official Japanese estimates, nearly 300,000 people died from the bombings, including those who lost their lives in the ensuing months and years from related injuries and illnesses. Other researchers estimate a much higher death toll. We play an account of the 1945 atomic bombing of Nagasaki by the pilots who flew the B-29 bomber that dropped that bomb, and feature an interview with the son of Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist George Weller, who was the first reporter to enter Nagasaki. He later summarized his experience with military censors who ordered his story killed, saying, 'They won.' Our guest is Greg Mitchell, co-author of 'Hiroshima in America: A Half Century of Denial,' with Robert Jay Lifton. His latest book is 'Atomic Cover-Up: Two U.S. Soldiers, Hiroshima & Nagasaki and The Greatest Movie Never Made.' [includes rush transcript]"


Atomic bombing of Nagasaki on August 9, 1945

• more at whats up: Atomic Cover-Up: The Hidden Story Behind the U.S. Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

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