No Nukes News: Nuclear might relies on civil reactors

Thu Sep 7 16:24:39 EDT 2017

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Sept. 7, 2017

The World

☢  <http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=7c34be6c62&e=45743fde61> US nuclear might rests on civil reactors Experts say there can be no US nuclear might without a large civil atomic industry to prop up the military.  <http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=301e9620bc&e=45743fde61> Tritium, an essential component of nuclear weapons, is manufactured in civilian reactors. Also, civilian reactors are needed to produce  <http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=fd71089a4e&e=45743fde61> highly enriched uranium used in nuke weapons.

☢  <http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=b0005fdfb2&e=45743fde61> The Slow Death Of Nuclear Power In Europe Germany, France, Switzerland, Belgium, and Spain are all phasing out their nukes, while Italy, Austria and Portugal are all committed to remaining nuke-free.

☢  <http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=26577428a2&e=45743fde61> Florida Power company kills nuclear plant, plans $6 billion in solar and battery investment instead Duke Energy Florida is just the latest utility to walk away from nuclear. And in South Carolina,  <http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=0bef1942c3&e=45743fde61> another new nuke project bites the dust in addition to the other 2 South Carolina  <http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=00319573b8&e=45743fde61> Vogtle reactors canned last month.

☢  <http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=0fd9d55370&e=45743fde61> Dying Navy Sailors Push for Trial on Fukushima Meltdown “We have all these sailors whose case is now five years old, who have died or are in the process of dying right now.” Other sailors have seen their children born with birth defects.

☢  <http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=56545c1cba&e=45743fde61> Japan's Tepco gets slapped with new U.S. lawsuit over Fukushima 

☢  <http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=e730d31f1a&e=45743fde61> Americans fight effort to import radioactive waste from Canada A proposal to import as much as 10,000 tons of radioactive material from Canada into the U.S. for processing has several environmental groups trying to reverse a decision by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

☢  <http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=52f66a709d&e=45743fde61> Trump Energy Dept's Pro-Coal, Pro-Nuclear Report is little more than "propaganda" and "talking points memo for coal and nuclear subsidies"

☢  <http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=d29e9f49e5&e=45743fde61> Manitobans won't fall for nuclear energy snake oil despite the Mayor of Pinawa wooing investors to build a prototype Small Modular Reactor.
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Ontario

☢ Why Ontario shouldn’t lock itself in to nuclear power <http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=75150b008f&e=45743fde61>  The province has committed to a dying technology when greener, safer energy innovations are just around the corner

☢ Say NO to radioactive nuclear waste trafficking in Canada and U.S. <http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=d1d90f3aeb&e=45743fde61>  Transporting an unlimited amount of nuclear substances from OPG's facilities will place countless Ontarians at risk. 

☢ Minister Delays Report on OPG DGR <http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=efc7f81312&e=45743fde61>  An SOS Great Lakes update on OPG’s nuke waste dump proposal on Lake Huron. The feds have stepped in once again to delay a decision. 

☢ Saugeen Ojibway Nation Decision on Nuclear Waste a Key First Step <http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=8cbf68e1f4&e=45743fde61>  In a significant expression of support for free, prior, and informed consent of Indigenous Peoples in Canada, the environmental assessment process for OPG's proposed Deep Geologic Repository (DGR) for low- and intermediate-level nuclear waste has been halted until the Saugeen Ojibway Nation (SON) has made an informed decision on whether to support the project.

☢ Electricity policy is falling behind the energy revolution <http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=f4363ccb9e&e=45743fde61>  Ontario's LDCs aim to co-ordinate household-level renewable-energy generation and energy-storage technologies.

☢ Uxbridge councillors blast Hydro One on new coal station <http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=0129538430&e=45743fde61>  “Talk about going backwards,” said the Mayor of Uxbridge of the decision to invest in Avista, an American utility company that owns a piece of the Colstrip Power Plant in Montana, one of the nation’s largest coal-fired power plants. 
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Renewables and Conservation

☼  <http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=252c2c9d66&e=45743fde61> China Builds 24 Billion Watts of Solar in Just Two Months as Trump Attacks Renewables and Defends Coal In June and July alone, China added more solar capacity than the U.S. added in all of the past two years.

☼  <http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=bed51b6b5d&e=45743fde61> Texas Wind Turbines Went Right on Turning Under Harvey’s Impact, as Refineries Shut Down More on this  <http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=62ea0591a2&e=45743fde61> here.

☼  <http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=6b83d178ce&e=45743fde61> Green Energy Jobs: Top 7 Pieces of Rare Good News for US Workers In 2016, US solar businesses employed 260,077 workers – that’s more people in US electricity generation than oil, gas and coal combined! And each day, US workers erect 10 new wind turbines creating 200,000 full time jobs.

☼  <http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=13e9eea838&e=45743fde61> Amory Lovins – Electricity Grid Visionary 33 min. audio interview with the founder of the  <http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=ec392b3e7f&e=45743fde61> Rocky Mountain Institute.

☼  <http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=fe16f519da&e=45743fde61> 100% Renewable Roadmaps for 139 Nations Reveal Far-Reaching Benefits If all roadmaps (wind, water, solar)  were implemented by 2050, researchers predict their proposal would avoid 1.5°C global warming, prevent millions of annual air-pollution deaths, and create more than 24 million full-time jobs worldwide.
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Take Action!
☢  <http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=277fc74ace&e=45743fde61> Our big chance to close Pickering Hydro Quebec is offering Ontario enough low-cost water power (6 cents) to replace the Pickering nuclear station (9 cents). More  <http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=bd00acf7b4&e=45743fde61> here. Please send your support for a deal to Premier Wynne and PC Leader Patrick Brown.
Email Premier Wynne at  <mailto:premier at ontario.ca> premier at ontario.ca or leave a phone message at 416-325-1941.
Email Patrick Brown at  <mailto:patrick.brownco at pc.ola.org> patrick.brownco at pc.ola.org or leave a phone message at 416-325-0445.

☢  <http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=9e25b3e51a&e=45743fde61> Suspend shipments of liquid nuclear waste from Chalk River, ON to the US & do an independent EA – Petition You can learn more about it  <http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=6afaf14726&e=45743fde61> here &  <http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=f624363799&e=45743fde61> here &  <http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=4f759e1dea&e=45743fde61> here.

☢  <http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=d747fb58d8&e=45743fde61> Please sign the petition to the Cdn. House of Commons to help us protect the Ottawa River from a giant radioactive megadump.  More info  <http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=b43436ae15&e=45743fde61> here.

☢  <http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=19d66e870b&e=45743fde61> Send the Premier a message <http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=fadf008129&e=45743fde61>  calling for Hydro One to stay out of the coal business

☢  <http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=6c8ce2d461&e=45743fde61> Tell the Japanese government: don’t dump nuclear waste into the ocean!

☢  <http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=1e2e9c0d3c&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=0dcf96b1ce&e=45743fde61> my video here.

☢  <http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=4dc4df344f&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=c17766032b&e=45743fde61> Prime Minister Trudeau: Canada must help achieve a global ban on nuclear weapons Send your message here.

☢  <http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=e7da64f981&e=45743fde61> O <http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=eb7b933c07&e=45743fde61> rder your free KI (anti-thyroid-cancer) pills  <http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=a1f8a86881&e=45743fde61> here if you live within 50 km of an ON nuclear facility - that includes all of Toronto and beyond.  <http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=c539d3a293&e=45743fde61> Download your anti-thyroid cancer posters here to post in your office, school, or local cafe.
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Events

☼  <http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=8f292e4eff&e=45743fde61> Power in the Climate Era Sat. Sept. 9, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. Westport, ON. A community electricity workshop with OCAA’s Angela Bischoff, and green energy gurus Paul McKay and Steve Lapp.

☼  <http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=177da39c5d&e=45743fde61> Getting to Nuclear Zero: Building Common Security for a Post-Mad World Ottawa, Sept. 22 – 23. Nuclear disarmament ultimately requires a shift from the doctrine of mutually assured destruction (MAD) to mutual security.

☼  <http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=2b9be08ec3&e=45743fde61> Green Energy Doors Open Sept. 22 – 24. Annual showcase of individual, community and commercial sustainable energy projects across Ontario.

☼  <http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=b82915c2b9&e=45743fde61> Climate Change Workshop: Local Development of Zero Emission Solutions Sun. Sept. 24, 10.30 am – 5 pm,  Ecotay Education Center, Tay Valley Township, ON.                                                                                                                           

☼  <http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=307049c8e2&e=45743fde61> ClimaCon  Sept. 27 – 29, Ottawa. Canada's largest convergence of climate heros.

☼  <http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=bf5085d9d1&e=45743fde61> Webinar- Beyond Doom and Gloom: Essentials to Move the Needle for Green Energy Fri, Sep 29, 11:15 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. EDT

☼  <http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=cf1af8ba6c&e=45743fde61> Webinar with Paul Hawkin on Climate Solutions Wed. Oct. 4, 1:15 – 2:15 p.m. EDT

☼  <http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=cd6b7718cd&e=45743fde61> 3rd Antinuclear World Social Forum Nov. 2 – 4, 2017 at Paris, France

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