No Nukes News: Russian radioactivity 986 x higher

[Angela Bischoff]

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Nov. 23, 2017
“Ontario is one of the few jurisdictions banking heavily on nuclear to meet future needs with its plan to rebuild 10 aging reactors at a cost of tens of billions of dollars. Nuclear will lock us into exactly the sort of inflexible and unresponsive system that we are already being warned will be little more than a massive white elephant. Ontario needs to wake up and smell the coffee before it is left with a mountain of debt and power no one needs.”  <https://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=adf27c1577&e=45743fde61> Jack Gibbons, Chair, Ontario Clean Air Alliance
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Watch the  <https://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=6e89cf3ca7&e=45743fde61> 7 min. version of events last week at Queen's Park and OPG when 100 First Nations and Allies called for a non-nuclear Ontario. .

The World

☢  <https://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=aba62c1dbd&e=45743fde61> Russian radioactivity recorded 986 times higher than usual as toxic cloud sparks nuclear accident rumours The levels of radioactive pollution were so high that if the accident had happened in France, authorities would have evacuated the site and the surrounding areas. Greenpeace Russia  <https://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=ab24b20156&e=45743fde61> calls for investigation. More  <https://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=d2270623f8&e=45743fde61> here and  <https://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=6476829da4&e=45743fde61> more.

☢  <https://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=10e6551218&e=45743fde61> Iran Earthquake Raises Concern over Nuclear Plant The area where the station is located has suffered earthquakes in 1853, 1960,1972, 2013 and 2017. The Russian company that built the plant it claims it can resist a tremor of up to 7 magnitude. A 7.3-magnitude quake could plunge the whole Gulf into nuclear pollution.

☢  <https://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=2673ba7cff&e=45743fde61> Radioactive Water Leaks >From Illinois Nuclear Plants Problems persist a decade after discovery of chronic radioactive leaks. Five of the six plants Exelon now runs in Illinois reported leaks over the last decade.

☢  <https://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=215d922afe&e=45743fde61> Fukushima Darkness The difficult painful part if this story is largely hidden from pubic view via a highly restrictive harsh national secrecy law, political pressure galore, and fear of exposing the truth about the inherent dangers of nuclear reactor meltdowns. Powerful vested interests want it concealed.

☢  <https://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=8669017c1a&e=45743fde61> Subsidizing coal and nuclear power could drive customers off the grid If such proposals are enacted and raise rates, they could drive many ratepayers to go off-grid, leaving fewer customers to cover the costs of maintaining the grid. This could raise electric rates substantially for utilities’ remaining customers, potentially triggering further defections. In sum, subsidizing coal and nuclear plants could destabilize the electric power system instead of strengthening it.

☢  <https://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=b939107ef8&e=45743fde61> 25 Jurisdictions Join Canada, UK in Coal Phase- out Alliance Canada and the UK have launched the Powering Past Coal Alliance, a collection of 20 countries, six provinces or states, and one city committed to phasing out coal, shifting to cost-competitive renewable energy alternatives, and embracing the health and economic benefits that will result. Smartly, they've  <https://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=b648485a09&e=45743fde61> built in a ‘just transition’ for the workers. Ontario lead the way with the coal phase-out; now it’s time for ON to phase out nuclear power and introduce a ‘just transition’ for the workers through decommissioning.
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Ontario

☢ FAO nuclear cost report is fundamentally flawed <https://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=ec88bf0e81&e=45743fde61>  The Financial Accountability Officer of Ontario (FAO) has issued a report on the costs of nuclear power that relies on outdated and incorrect information to draw a highly misleading picture of the risks of continuing to pursue high-cost nuclear projects in Ontario. Listen to this 5 min. radio interview with Jack Gibbons <https://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=88018e633d&e=45743fde61> , OCAA Chair, discussing this new Ontario report which once again whitewashes the real costs of nuclear white elephants.

☢ Ontario Finance Office Draws Mockery for Lowballed Nuclear Rebuild Cost <https://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=2896948fe7&e=45743fde61>  

☢ First Nations fight nuclear waste <https://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=bf28ebabd7&e=45743fde61>  The Bawating Water Protectors (BWT) were on the march at Queen’s Park on November 9 to tell Ontario Liberals and Ontario Power Generation what they can do with their nuclear power waste. And it does not include storing it near the waterways of the Great Lakes, crossing indigenous lands and potentially harming everyone in the vicinity.

☢ Emergency Preparedness Exercise at Pickering Nuclear <https://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=d6074c27fe&e=45743fde61>  Ontario Power Generation (OPG), in partnership with more than 30 organizations, is participating in a large-scale emergency preparedness exercise Dec. 6 and 7 at Pickering Nuclear Generating Station. Well at least they recognize that nuclear accidents happen, hence the preparations. But how on earth would they evacuate us all? The 401 is clogged on a regular rush hour. And in the case of a nuke accident, they're closing the 401!

☢ One million cubic meters of Radioactive Waste to be deposited in  <https://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=8be343daed&e=45743fde61> "Near Surface Disposal Facility" next to Ottawa River If approved, radioactive, commercial, and industrial wastes will be shipped into Chalk River and dumped in a mound.

☢ NDP Energy Critic Peter Tabuns tabled a Greenpeace petition in the ON Legislature <https://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=430957a728&e=45743fde61>  calling the the Wynne Government to upgrade nuclear emergency plans.
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Renewables and Conservation

☼  <https://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=aa905e8d58&e=45743fde61> New study reaches a stunning conclusion about the cost of solar and wind energy In one of the fastest and most astonishing turnarounds in the history of energy, building and running new renewable energy is now cheaper than just running existing coal and nuclear plants in many areas. This is the case in ON where Pickering costs us 9 cents/kWh and a rebuilt Darlington will cost 16.5 cents, while wind in ON is just 8 cents, and water power from QC is just 5 cents.

☼  <https://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=86d4f6a297&e=45743fde61> New global survey reveals that everyone loves renewable energy “How important do you think it is to create a world fully powered by renewable energy?” Across 13 of the world’s wealthiest countries, 82 percent of respondents deemed that goal important.

☼  <https://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=ef097d9ef9&e=45743fde61> Africa Can ‘Leapfrog’ The Industrialized North By Dumping the Traditional Grid The cost of solar has plummeted more than 80% on the continent since 2010; wind prices are also falling fast.
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Take Action!

☢  <https://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=0e25d5493b&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=1d303ba0ea&e=45743fde61> Protect the Ottawa River from a giant radioactive megadump - Petition. More info  <https://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=6894dcfb08&e=45743fde61> here.

☢  <https://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=03c2ce7616&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=cf27f3a4a2&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=ba23044811&e=45743fde61> here &  <https://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=1db855141e&e=45743fde61> here.

☢  <https://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=66f9dc7345&e=45743fde61> Send the Premier a message <https://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=7ccab7078c&e=45743fde61>  calling for Hydro One to stay out of the coal business

☢  <https://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=14240249c7&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=4878d25d02&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=2e3596f273&e=45743fde61> my video here.

☢  <https://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=07ba9895b8&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=c61afa0c0d&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=ededc0e24d&e=45743fde61> O <https://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=eb1ba67686&e=45743fde61> rder your free KI (anti-thyroid-cancer) pills  <https://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=a658a6bead&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=d045637e94&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=23e6e35603&e=45743fde61> Nuclear Accidents Happen – Then What? Tues. Dec. 5, 7 – 9 p.m., Pickering Recreation Complex. A public panel and discussion about the Pickering Nuclear Station and Emergency Measures.
 



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