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Nuclear Power

Nuclear power cannot address climate change effectively or in time. Reactors have long, unpredictable construction times are expensive - at least $12 billion or higher per reactor. Furthermore, reactors are sitting-duck targets vulnerable to attack and routinely release - as well as leak - radioactivity. There is so solution to the problem of radioactive waste.

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Thursday
Jul012021

CONDO FALL IS CAUTIONARY TALE: Atomic reactor and waste degradation risks

NRC file photoAs Solartopia author and lifelong anti-nuclear activist Harvey Wasserman has written, "the horrifying collapse of a south Florida condo should alarm us all about the next reactor catastrophe." As but one example is Davis-Besse, Ohio. A 44-year old reactor, it has had multiple near-misses with meltdowns in the past. It also has long had a severely cracked concrete containment Shield Building (see photo, showing NRC inspection). The ever worsening cracking is so severe, exterior surface spalling could initiate a meltdown, by falling concrete damaging or destroying safety-related systems, structures, and/or components below. The failed containment would likely not prevent the ensuing catastrophic release of hazardous radioactivity. Tens of thousands could be killed or injured.
Thursday
May272021

Dennis Kucinich: What have I been working on? The Division of Light and Power

Email from Dennis Kucinich, former Cleveland, OH city council member, clerk of courts, mayor, Ohio State Senator, U.S. Representative, and two-time presidential candidate:

Dear Friend,

I would like to share with you my personal odyssey in writing The Division of Light and Power, which goes on sale on June 8, 2021.
 

I began writing the first draft in November of 1979 at journalist Bob Scheer’s and LA Time’s editor Narda Zacchino’s house in Berkeley, California. I discovered I was too close to the searing experiences described in the book. I could not tell the story, much as I tried. It was man against white space and white space won, my thoughts of a book, projections of futility against a torn screen.

The page was blank, in some ways that is the way my life felt. I set aside the project. I wrote drafts in 1981, 1984, and 1993. Not satisfied, I put the writing aside again during service in the Ohio Senate and US Congress. When I left Congress in 2013, I focused on the book, wrote a few more drafts. Then, three years ago, in 2018, I began again, and, finally, was able to produce the first final draft.

The book’s subtitle could well be “My Life in Boxes.” I carried nearly 100 boxes of the documentation and notes around with me for 50 years, carting them from place to place, cardboard extensions of myself, of unrealized articulations, parked in basements, garages, and cold storage lockers. The swirling fragments of the story were an etheric version of Marley’s chains, an emotional and spiritual burden from the ghost of Christmases past, apparitions rattling around in the attic of my brain, insisting upon being brought to form.

Finally, the book is real. I have a printer’s galley to prove it. The book will go on sale on June the 8th, 2021. Here are some links:

AMAZON: https://amzn.to/2SDlqb9
BARNES & NOBLE: https://bit.ly/3om4emw
TARGET: https://bit.ly/33PaNEq


I ask that you preorder the book, and, once you read it, if you like it, tell your friends. Some of you may have media contacts to share word of the book. Please direct them to Johanna@jrbcomm.com. Please pass the word and encourage others to read The Division of Light and Power and learn we can reclaim government for the people.

With your help, The Division of Light and Power will create a call to action, on utilities, on local governance and on the urgency of each one of us taking a stand. It is also a call to action for courage, for never giving up and never giving in.

With gratitude for your support,

Dennis

Monday
May102021

Palisades Power Plant employees prepare for last year on the job

The Palisades atomic reactor in Covert Township, Van Buren County, MI, four miles south of South Haven, on the Lake Michigan shoreline.As reported by the South Haven Tribune in southwest Michigan.

Beyond Nuclear is quoted.

Although not mentioned in the article, the local grassroots organization, Michigan Safe Energy Future, is also intervening against the Entergy-to-Holtec license transfer.

Tuesday
Apr272021

PSR WI defends its intervention contentions, as it opposes an 80-year operating license at the Point Beach nuclear power plant

Point Beach Units 1 and 2, located on WI's Lake Michigan shoreline.As filed by Toledo, OH-based attorney Terry Lodge, who serves as legal counsel for Physicians for Social Responsibility Wisconsin:

PHYSICIANS FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY WISCONSIN’S REPLY IN SUPPORTOF PETITION FOR LEAVE TO INTERVENE IN POINT BEACH NUCLEARPLANT, UNITS 1 AND 2 SUBSEQUENT LICENSE RENEWAL PROCEEDING, AND REQUESTING AN ADJUDICATORY HEARING

and

PHYSICIANS FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY WISCONSIN’S MOTIONTO AMEND CONTENTION 2 (INADEQUATELY TESTED REACTOR COOLANT PRESSURE BOUNDARY)

The filings were submitted on April 26, 2021 -- the 35th annual commemoration of the beginning of the Chernobyl nuclear catastrophe. They contain the expert witness testimony of Arnie Gundersen, chief engineer, Fairewinds Energy Associates.

See the initial PSR WI petition to intervene, dated March 23, 2021, linked here.

Thursday
Apr222021

Native American Forum on Nuclear Issues, April 26-30

NATIVE NUCLEAR FORUM

5-Day Speaker Series, April 26 to 30

The Native American Forum on Nuclear Issues focuses on the impacts that nuclear has on Native American communities across the country, including uranium mining and milling, nuclear weapons production and testing, atomic reactor operation, radioactive waste transport and dumping, etc. Join them from 5 to 7pm PT each day (8 to 10pm ET; 7 to 9pm CT; 6 to 8pm MT). Speakers include Winona LaDuke, Steve Newcomb, Carletta Tilousi, Dr. Tommy Rock, Manny Pino, Myron Dewey, Joe Kennedy, and Ian Zabarte. Featured artists and performers include Jack Malotte, Sarah Caligiuri, and Bryan Hudson. This virtual event is brought to you by Native Community Action Council in partnership with Native Americans for Restorative Stewardship. Pre-registration is required for each day's session.

REGISTER