No Nukes News: A Radioactive Hallowe’en

Tue Oct 31 13:27:10 EDT 2017

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Oct. 31, 2017
☢  <https://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=71622d0216&e=45743fde61> Ontario doubles down on obsolete nuclear – and you’re paying for it In its just released Long Term Energy Plan, the Wynne government has doubled down on its plan to rebuild 10 aging nuclear reactors. The price tag for this dubious plan is a whopper — a 55% increase in residential  electricity rates by 2032.

☢  <https://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=db27102b58&e=45743fde61> Tell Premier Wynne you support making a money-saving deal with Quebec 16.5 cents to rebuild Darlington and extend Pickering, or 5 cents to import renewable water power from QC. The difference is more than $12 billion! Send your message  <https://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=6853a65cb0&e=45743fde61> here.

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The World

☢  <https://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=56aa7bbab2&e=45743fde61> A Radioactive Hallowe’en: Frankenstein and Son of Frankenstein The 'Age of Nuclear Waste' is well underway. The nuclear industry is determined to abandon its nuclear waste and walk away from it however and wherever they can.

☢  <https://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=58c08db4e4&e=45743fde61> Three Ways Radiation Has Changed The Monkeys Of Fukushima Smaller bodies. Smaller heads and brains. Anemia (reduction in all blood components). The findings have been published in the peer-reviewed journal  <https://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=7f4e2ba5cb&e=45743fde61> Scientific Reports, published by Nature. 
☢  <https://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=69d01b3221&e=45743fde61> Vandana Shiva on the Perils of Nuclear Power 10 min.video. "To after Fukushima call this (nuclear) 'clean energy' as a solution to climate change, is stupidity, and blindness and irresponsibility."

☢  <https://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=b23a62f9b3&e=45743fde61> Small Nuclear Reactors, a 50s Nightmare Come Back to Haunt Us It’s easy to see why Rolls Royce and other companies in the nuclear engineering business are pushing the government to finance the development a new generation of ‘small modular reactors’ or SMRs. Whether the project succeeds or fails, there are juicy profits to be had for them at taxpayers’ expense.

☢  <https://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=53be059b41&e=45743fde61> Concern over condition of France’s aging nuclear reactors: 20 of 58 currently shut down due to malfunctions and maintenance.

☢  <https://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=67ee63765b&e=45743fde61> France to decide by end 2018 how many nuclear plants to shut France aims to cut the share of atomic energy from 75% to 50% by 2025. As many as 17 of France’s 58 reactors may need to close to meet the target, at which point Ontario will be the most nuclearized jurisdiction on the planet.

☢  <https://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=480b18d4b9&e=45743fde61> Video shows workers at Hanford illegally dumping radioactive water Investigators are looking into the Hanford nuclear facility in Washington state, after contractors were filmed dumping radiation-affected water and later tried to bury the evidence at the site of one of the largest nuclear cleanup efforts in the world. 

☢  <https://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=504108c659&e=45743fde61> Why are some governments giving taxpayer handouts to nuclear power plants? What we don't need, and can't afford, is another round of misguided nuclear bailouts that saddle households and businesses with higher electricity bills. This will stunt the growth of more competitive renewable power, along with more jobs.

☢  <https://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=232902d1f7&e=45743fde61> Sprawling radioactive waste storage facility opens for business in Fukushima For the estimated 22 million cu. meters of contaminated waste existing in Fukushima, the gov’t needs to secure 1,600 hectares for the nuke waste facility. 

☢  <https://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=20fb11da16&e=45743fde61> The return of nuclear nightmares "I do not believe the threat of mass murder is a legitimate way to go about dealing with international relations." - Jeremy Corbyn on nuclear weapons. 
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Ontario

☢ Liberals double down on risky, expensive electricity mix that will create higher electricity bills <https://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=55a3d884ac&e=45743fde61>  Green Party of ON response to the Gov’t’s release of the Long Term Energy Plan. 

☢ Gov't of ON's Long-Term Energy Plan fails to uphold Ontarians' environmental and energy future <https://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=7a45bb3cde&e=45743fde61>  “By wasting billions on nuclear rebuilds rather than investing in far more cost-effective energy efficiency and hydro imports, the gov't's plan misses out on the best opportunities to lower energy and environmental costs.” Sierra Club statement.

☢ Affordability Fund Will Support Energy Efficient Home Upgrades <https://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=5bc88c8f37&e=45743fde61>  Ontario is launching a new program to help people improve the energy efficiency of their homes, while reducing their electricity bills and carbon footprints.

☢ Toronto's Executive Cttee passed a motion <https://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=f7f31e1e80&e=45743fde61>  asking the province to meet or exceed international best practices, expand the delivery of KI anti-radiation pills, prepare for more severe nuclear accidents, and to study the potential impacts of a reactor accident on the Great Lakes.
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Renewables and Conservation

☼  <https://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=a13c629d22&e=45743fde61> Efficiency and Renewables Must Stand Together Renewables can cover more ground, faster and at less cost, by moving in tandem with energy efficiency.

☼  <https://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=5c24d2018d&e=45743fde61> Solar, wind jobs to boom – actually double – over next decade

☼  <https://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=397f867161&e=45743fde61> Solar power crushes its own record for cheapest electricity ‘ever, anywhere, by any technology’ The lowest price for solar power last year is the highest price now. 

☼  <https://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=41e9bf4b90&e=45743fde61> A conversation with Amory Lovins Amory Lovins is co-founder and chief scientist of the Rocky Mountain Institute, arguably the world’s most influential energy think tank.

☼  <https://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=e8ffeb54b3&e=45743fde61> Green energy vs. coal: A secret campaign to convince Ohioans that wind and solar would kill jobs What happened to turn lawmakers so decisively against a statute they'd adopted 93-to-1 less than a decade ago? Fossil fuel interests mobilized to fight proposals to mitigate climate change that would undercut their profits.

☼  <https://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=5b904db1f8&e=45743fde61> Puerto Rico Cancels $300 Million Trump Crony Electrical Grid Rebuild Contract and looks to renewables
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Take Action!
☢  <https://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=bfc1b294e1&e=45743fde61> Tell Premier Wynne you support making a money-saving deal with Quebec Low-cost water power, not high-cost nuclear rebuilds.

☢  <https://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=08a062526f&e=45743fde61> Stop OPG's  Nuclear Waste Dump Before It's Too Late Learn more about OPG’s nuke waste dump proposal in Kincardine, ON, and write Minister McKenna, Premier Wynne and PM Trudeau here.

☢  <https://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=082e992ed9&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  <https://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=2a4e440ce9&e=45743fde61> here &  <https://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=136bed5780&e=45743fde61> here &  <https://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=ad08a4d46b&e=45743fde61> here.

☢  <https://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=c26090fffd&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  <https://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=d3c151e127&e=45743fde61> here.

☢  <https://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=e407e75e18&e=45743fde61> Send the Premier a message <https://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=ebc6d10683&e=45743fde61>  calling for Hydro One to stay out of the coal business

☢  <https://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=bd72fddac3&e=45743fde61> Tell the Japanese government: don’t dump nuclear waste into the ocean!

☢  <https://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=285fc6b759&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  <https://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=7e99715fb8&e=45743fde61> my video here.

☢  <https://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=f3b15a7288&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

☢  <https://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=ca768d0a4d&e=45743fde61> Prime Minister Trudeau: Canada must help achieve a global ban on nuclear weapons Send your message here.

☢  <https://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=a563895a4e&e=45743fde61> O <https://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=d5499ba9a2&e=45743fde61> rder your free KI (anti-thyroid-cancer) pills  <https://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=9d2069a63a&e=45743fde61> here if you live within 50 km of an ON nuclear facility - that includes all of Toronto and beyond.  <https://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=bf813217a4&e=45743fde61> Download your anti-thyroid cancer posters here to post in your office, school, or local cafe.
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Events

☢  <https://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=ddd20bd3b8&e=45743fde61> Nuclear Power Ousted by… Renewables? Nov 1, 3 – 4:30 p.m. U of Ottawa. Canada launch of the  <https://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=71e0d33d1e&e=45743fde61> World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2017, with author Mycle Schneider.

☢  <https://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=cf9a250c8d&e=45743fde61> 3rd Antinuclear World Social Forum Nov. 2 – 4, 2017 at Paris, France 

☢  <https://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=d6432f4822&e=45743fde61> Toxic Threat: Radioactive Waste on Indigenous Lands Wed. Nov. 8, 5 - 7 p.m., Upper Library, Massey College, 4 Devonshire Pl, U of T. Join us in a discussion with Indigenous leaders and allies about a recent proposal to transport and dump radioactive waste on Indigenous lands. 

☢  <https://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=c55a24a494&e=45743fde61> Nuclear Weapons & Christian Witness in an Anxious Age Wed. Nov. 8, 6 – 8 p.m., Church of St. James, Toronto. Get a primer on the history and current state of nuclear weapons as well as an overview of Christian theological and political engagement with nuclear weapons, deterrence, and disarmament.

☢  <https://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=a524a9365d&e=45743fde61> We Want a Renewable Ontario - First Nations and allies unite Thur. Nov. 9, noon – 2 p.m. Queen's Park (College and University), Toronto. Join us to call for a phase out of nuclear power and move to 100% renewables - wind, water, solar.

☢  <https://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=d8fed5bad9&e=45743fde61> Lithium Ion Batteries: Past, Present and Future Thursday, Nov. 16, 7:30 pm. Jackman Hall, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto. A talk by Dr. Jeff Dahn, NSERC Hertzberg Gold Medal winner, Canada Research Chair and NSERC/Tesla Canada Industrial Research Chair

☢  <https://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=260fc01805&e=45743fde61> Nuclear Accidents Happen – Then What? Tues. Dec. 5, 7 – 9 p.m., Pickering Recreation Complex, O'Brien Room A. A public panel and discussion about the Pickering Nuclear Station and Emergency Measures.

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