No Nukes News: Japan considers solar power

Fri Apr 29 16:36:41 EDT 2011

No Nukes News

April 29, 2011

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Radiation Readings in Fukushima Reactor Rise to Highest Since Crisis Began

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-04-27/tokyo-water-radiation-falls-to-zero
-for-first-time-since-crisis.html

What's going on at Japan's damaged nuclear power plant? 

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/04/27/japan-plant-idUSL3E7FR2IV20110427 

Japan's Nuclear Catastrophe Leaves Little to Celebrate on Children's Day

The Japanese government is celebrating Children's Day, a national holiday on
May 5th, by dramatically raising radiation exposure limits in schools. 

<http://www.ips-dc.org/blog/japans_nuclear_catastrophe_leaves_little_to_cele
brate_on_childrens_day>
http://www.ips-dc.org/blog/japans_nuclear_catastrophe_leaves_little_to_celeb
rate_on_childrens_day

Petition Against Raising Radiation Exposure Standards onto Children in
Fukushima

This is an urgent request from Japanese citizen civil society to the
international community.
http://blog.canpan.info/foejapan/daily/201104/24

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Thailand To Delay Development Of Nuclear Power 

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704099704576288782682893862.ht
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Japan Considers Solar Power In Light of Nuclear Crisis

http://greenanswers.com/news/235326/japan-considers-solar-power-light-nuclea
r-crisis

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Culture of Complicity Tied to Stricken Nuclear Plant

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/27/world/asia/27collusion.html?_r=3
<http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/27/world/asia/27collusion.html?_r=3&pagewant
ed=all> &pagewanted=all

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Fukushima and Chernobyl Raise Questions about WHO's Role

http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=55403

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Nuclear plants must not turn into radiological weapons

http://www.asahi.com/english/TKY201104270183.html

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Chernobyl: A Million Casualties

A million people have died so far as a result of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear
plant accident, explains Janette Sherman, M.D., toxicologist and
contributing editor of the book Chernobyl: Consequences of the Catastrophe
for People and the Environment.

A 29 min. interview

http://blip.tv/file/4922080

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Chernobyl Catastrophe: 25th Anniversary of World's Worst Nuclear Accident 

Democracy Now! audio interviews and transcript

http://www.democracynow.org/2011/4/26/chernobyl_catastrophe_25th_anniversary
_of_worlds

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Powering The Dream: The History and Promise of Green Technology

Madrigal explores the history of green power in his new book, Powering the
Dream: The History and Promise of Green Technology.  He looks at the way
inventors and innovators have attempted to exploit what we now think of as
"alternative" energy sources for more than two centuries, why fossil fuels
came to dominate, and what this might mean for the future.

Listen to the 17 min. radio interview:
http://www.cbc.ca/quirks/episode/2011/04/23/april-23-2011/ 

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Nuclear Disasters Should Be Met with Scientific Inquiry, Not Silence

Remarks on the 25th anniversary of the Nuclear Meltdown at Chernobyl,
Ukraine.

by Ralph Nader <http://www.commondreams.org/ralph-nader>  

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/04/26-10

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Nuclear Fallout 

10 min. video with Dr. Helen Caldicott

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMXvpWoHzeE

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Greenpeace Occupies Ontario Energy Minister's Office 

2 min. video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fgdNpYmmik 

OPG's claim of reactor safety not credible without transparency - Greenpeace

http://www.greenpeace.org/canada/en/Blog/opgs-claim-of-reactor-safety-not-cr
edible-wit/blog/34509

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OPG wants to build underground vaults near Kincardine to store nuclear waste

http://www.brandonsun.com/lifestyles/breaking-news/opg-wants-to-build-underg
round-vaults-near-kincardine-to-store-nuclear-waste-120730274.html?thx=y

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In the Ontario Legislature - Green Energy capped as new nuclear comes online

Citing a new Ministry of Energy document
<http://www.ceaa.gc.ca/050/documents/49775/49775E.pdf> , NDP Energy Critic
Peter Tabuns asked Minister of Energy Brad Duguid today in question period
how much new renewable energy the government plans to bring on line between
2020 and 2030. The answer (which Minister Duguid refused to confirm) is 0 MW
because new nuclear projects will come online, capping green energy
procurement. Here's the Hansard transcript: 

http://www.ontla.on.ca/web/house-proceedings/house_detail.do?Date=2011-04-19
<http://www.ontla.on.ca/web/house-proceedings/house_detail.do?Date=2011-04-1
9&Parl=39&Sess=2&locale=en#P255_68126> &Parl=39&Sess=2&locale=en#P255_68126 

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Albertan, Tired of Her Tap Water Catching Fire, Sues

Scientist Jessica Ernst hits gas giant EnCana, regulators with fracking
lawsuit.

By Andrew Nikiforuk <http://thetyee.ca/Bios/Andrew_Nikiforuk/> 

http://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2011/04/28/FrackingSuit/ 

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Canada's Military Spending - Folly or Fallout? 
With Tamara Lorincz

Sun. May 1, 2011, 2:30 pm, Free

17 Bloor St. E., St. Andrew's United Church (at Spadina), Toronto

Tamara received the Peace in Space award in 2005 in New York. She is
profoundly concerned about the doubling of the National Defence budget in
the last 5 years, increased lobbying by US weapons manufacturers, the F-35
program and the Canada First Defence Strategy. Join her in a discussion
about the troubling rise of militarism in Canada and what we can do.

Co-sponsored by Veterans Against Nuclear Arms (VANA) and Canadian Voice of
Women for Peace (VOW)

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After the Apocalypse

Fri. May 6, 7:15 p.m., the Cumberland, Toronto

Sat. May 7, 7 p.m., Innis Town Hall, Toronto

One in 20 children born to women living near a Russian nuclear-weapon
testing site in Kazakhstan has birth defects. As a prominent doctor plans to
introduce "genetic passports," two mothers fight for the right to keep their
unborn children.

http://www.hotdocs.ca/ 

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Mining Injustice Conference 2011 : Confronting Corporate Impunity 

May 6 - 8

Sidney Smith Hall, U of T, 100 St. George Street, room 2117, Toronto

Winona LaDuke speaking Sat. 1:15 p.m.

Workshop on The cycle of supply and demand of uranium in the North on Sat.
2:15 p.m.

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=48852021264
<http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=48852021264&ref=ts#!/event.php?eid=20
8042585891073> &ref=ts#!/event.php?eid=208042585891073   

http://www.solidarityresponse.net/ 

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Sign the  <http://www.ontariosgreenfuture.ca/petition2.php> Petition Calling
for a Moratorium on New Nuclear Projects in ON

http://www.ontariosgreenfuture.ca/petition2.php

And order FREE anti-nuclear and anti-coal leaflets here: 

They contain postcards to politicians.

Courtesy of the Ontario Clean Air Alliance.

http://www.cleanairalliance.org/get_involved_order_pamphlets 

Thanks.

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Angela Bischoff

Outreach Director

Ontario Clean Air Alliance

Tel: 416 260-2080 x 1

160 John St., #300

Toronto, ON  M5V 2E5

angela at cleanairalliance.org

www.cleanairalliance.org <http://www.cleanairalliance.org/>  

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