No Nukes News: 'Nuclear Renaissance' Fizzled

Wed Aug 9 11:29:37 EDT 2017

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August 9, 2017

 <http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=3cbd867c9f&e=45743fde61> Quebec Power Breakthrough Yesss! Doing a deal with QC at 6 cents would allow us to cancel the Pickering nuclear extension and save Ontarians $billions!  <mailto:premier at ontario.ca,gthibeault.mpp.co at liberal.ola.org?subject=Thank%20you%20for%20buying%20power%20from%20Quebec> Please send the Premier and the Minister a note thanking them for pursuing a deal for clean, low-cost power with Quebec.

The World

☢  <http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=73216fa96e&e=45743fde61> How The Dream Of America's 'Nuclear Renaissance' Fizzled 

☢  <http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=cab30aa7fd&e=45743fde61> Why the Scariest Nuclear Threat May Be Coming from Inside the White House Donald Trump’s secretary of energy, Rick Perry, once campaigned to abolish the $30 billion agency that he now runs, which oversees everything from our nuclear arsenal to the electrical grid. The department’s budget is now on the chopping block. 

☢  <http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=48cceafc02&e=45743fde61> Radioactive Hot Particles Still Afloat Throughout Japan Six Year After Fukushima Meltdowns Radioactive particles of uranium, thorium, radium, cesium, strontium, polonium, tellurium and americium are still afloat throughout Northern Japan more than six years after a tsunami slammed into the Fukushima Daiichi Power Plant causing three full-blown nuclear meltdowns.  

☢  <http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=0e81e5e72b&e=45743fde61> The failure of two nuclear units could leave South Carolina customers with the electric bill  and  <http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=2524fadc3a&e=45743fde61> South Carolina May Spend 60 Years Paying for Nukes Never Built and  <http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=6a74749281&e=45743fde61> SCE&G customers shouldn’t expect refunds for abandoned nuclear project

☢  <http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=6ee1ca756e&e=45743fde61> South Carolina's $9 Billion Nuclear Boondoggle Fits a Global Pattern of Troubles Aborted reactors are not only a risk in the United States: South Korea, Spain, France…

☢  <http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=8233663402&e=45743fde61> Spain to close oldest nuclear plant due to lack of political will Ontario should too! Close-Pickering.ca

☢  <http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=0235c9cbe4&e=45743fde61> Bruce Power on-site spill resulted in a release of tritiated water. Tritium is a carcinogen, mutagen and teratogen. More on  <http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=9cfd65e9ff&e=45743fde61> tritium here.

☢  <http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=73a6776171&e=45743fde61> Where is Canada: Our country was missing when more than 100 nations drew up and voted for a treaty to ban nuclear weapons Canadians can no longer side with Americans in outmoded thinking that declares nuclear weapons to be essential and core capabilities in the West’s nuclear weapons arsenal.

☢  <http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=9d3ad5952a&e=45743fde61> Pandora South Korean fiction film about a nuclear catastrophe. 2016. It’s on Netflix.

☢  <http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=701abee1c7&e=45743fde61> Nuclear power more expensive than gov’t claims, as spent fuel storage exceeds $57 billion in Korea alone Considering that the post-processing costs for nuclear reactors are increasing astronomically and that safety concerns continue to be raised about the unprecedented concentration of nuclear reactors, this is a situation that calls for serious deliberation and a reasonable social consensus about phasing out nuclear power.

☢  <http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=8093188c3c&e=45743fde61> Former Rocky Flats neighbours share health horror stories Though Colorado health department studies showed no anomalies, a community health study shows a much different picture, one of cancers and rare diseases.
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Ontario

☢ Flotilla takes to the River <http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=67cc581a4f&e=45743fde61>  to protest the proposed Chalk River mega-nuke-dump. The facility is meant to dispose of up to one million cubic metres of low level radioactive material 1 km from the Ottawa River. Some say the Cdn government abdicated its responsibility for the handling of radioactive waste by handing it over to a consortium of private companies.

☢ How safe is Toronto from nuclear weapons? <http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=049dd91771&e=45743fde61>  Peace, faith and environmental groups issue appeal to Mayor John Tory for public hearings saying it's time to shake our complacency about the dangers posed to Toronto
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Renewables and Conservation

☼  <http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=48696236e5&e=45743fde61> Renewable Energy Booming after a Decade of Progress 

☼  <http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=a39c90f72c&e=45743fde61> Old Coal & Nuclear Costs Can’t Compete With Declining Wind & Solar Costs and  <http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=71af5d101d&e=45743fde61> It's Official: Nuclear Power Can’t Compete With Renewables  

☼  <http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=e9d9c22ea2&e=45743fde61> End is nigh for old-world coal, nuclear ‘baseloadism’ With the massive reduction in the price of renewable energy from wind and solar over the last five years to levels now less than half that of energy from new coal and nuclear baseload plants, a new approach to power generation beyond “baseloadism” is emerging.  <http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=973ac653e5&e=45743fde61> Baseload – an outdated term is based on the report  <http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=d0c12fb6d4&e=45743fde61> Advancing Past “Baseload” to a Flexible Grid
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Take Action!
☢  <http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=dffcaaa573&e=45743fde61> Send the Premier a message about maintaining climate leadership and clean air by signing our petition calling for Hydro One to stay out of the coal business.

☢  <http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=fe42277b30&e=45743fde61> Tell the Japanese government: don’t dump nuclear waste into the ocean!

☢  <http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=fae2bbbc43&e=45743fde61> Catherine McKenna, Minister of Environment and Climate Change: Stop nuclear and toxic waste mega dump on Ottawa River Sign the petition. Find out more  <http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=6d1f56e10f&e=45743fde61> here. 

☢  <http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=0a5006e50d&e=45743fde61> Oppose the proposed Chalk River mega-dump Please submit written comments to the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC)  <http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=e2f5d08de9&e=45743fde61> here. Deadline August 16.

☢  <http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=d38ae65404&e=45743fde61> Sign our petition to close the old and dangerous Pickering Nuclear Station when its license expires in 2018. And then share it with your friends. Watch  <http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=9e65cebf43&e=45743fde61> my video here.

☢  <http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=b3556c221c&e=45743fde61> Can you spare a few hours to leaflet blitz your neighbourhood mailboxes? Help us make the closure of the Pickering nuclear station a public issue. Contact:  <mailto:angela at cleanairalliance.org> angela at cleanairalliance.org

☢  <http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=5f9ea633c9&e=45743fde61> Prime Minister Trudeau: Canada must help achieve a global ban on nuclear weapons Send your message here.
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Events

☢  <http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=051913e5c0&e=45743fde61> Power in the Climate Era Sat. Sept. 9, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. Wintergreen Studios, Yarker ON. A community electricity workshop with OCAA’s Angela Bischoff, and green energy gurus Paul McKay and Steve Lapp.

☢  <http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=82a22e5165&e=45743fde61> 3rd Antinuclear World Social Forum Nov. 2 – 4, 2017 at Paris, France

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