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Friday
Jun112021

Beyond Nuclear on Sputnik Radio News "Political Misfits"

Here is the write up:

Kevin Kamps, radioactive waste watchdog at Beyond Nuclear, joins us to talk about a recent report published by the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) revealing that nuclear weapons spending increased by $1.4 billion more than in 2019, with nine countries spending 72.6 billion dollars on nukes, who the biggest offenders were, and how much money is spent on think tanks and lobbying by the nuclear weapons business. We also talk about the parallels between the nuclear weapons lobby and the nuclear energy lobby, and how the Biden administration is going ahead with an expansion of the U.S. nuclear arsenal.

Listen to the audio recording, here. (Kevin's interview begins at the 17 minute 12 second mark, and ends at the 33 minute mark.)

Beyond Nuclear is a member organization of the Alliance for Nuclear Accountability. ANA is a national network of three-dozen grassroots groups, watchdogs of the U.S. Department of Energy's nuclear weapons complex sites. Beyond Nuclear's Kevin Kamps serves on the ANA board of directors.

Saturday
Jun052021

Coalition letter to Japanese government agencies, opposing planned radioactive wastewater dumping into Pacific Ocean

Beyond Nuclear joined with 70 other organizations in writing to Japan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as well as Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry. The coalition is urging the Japanese national government to reverse its unwise and dangerous decision, announced two months ago, to begin -- a couple years from now -- dumping 330+ million gallons (1.25+ million metric tonnes, or 1.25 billion+ liters) of highly radioactive wastewater into the Pacific Ocean at Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

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
May242021

"Advanced" isn't better, and arguably worse

The latest edition of The Update, promoting the second in our series of Talking Points, pulls out the key messages from Edwin Lyman's excellent analysis of "advanced" nuclear reactor designs. 

Thursday
May132021

CYBER HACKS: Risks to reactors, radioactive waste

The ransomware attack on a fossil fuel pipeline, reportedly by an Eastern European-based, non-state criminal gang, has revealed the vulnerability of our energy sector. Since 1980, Bennett Ramburg has warned about domestic nuclear plants being potential weapons for an enemy. Cyber warfare could target the electric grid, which serves as primary source of power to run safety and cooling systems in both atomic reactors, and storage pools for highly radioactive irradiated nuclear fuel.
An NRC report has revealed how catastrophic a reactor meltdown could be, in terms of deaths, injuries, and property damage. Pool fires could be even worse. Nuclear power is a potentially catastrophic security risk. It should be phased out ASAP, and replaced with secure renewables.