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Iowa should move aggressively on more nuclear energy
From the moment it was captured in a bulb, electricity has reshaped our world. It powers our hospitals,…
#Energy #energysources #Iowa #IowaStateUniversity #nuclearplant #nuclearpower #NuclearWaste #spentnuclearfuel #ThestateNuclearEnergyTaskForce
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Iowa should move aggressively on more nuclear energy https://www.byteseu.com/2362770/ #Energy #EnergySources #iowa #IowaStateUniversity #NuclearPlant #NuclearPower #NuclearWaste #SpentNuclearFuel #TheState NuclearEnergyTaskForce
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#WJARR / Omoniyi Gbohunmi Korede, Oluwaferanmi O. Akinyemi, Adeyemi Zaheed Oshilalu:
Environmental and ecological impact of radioactive waste disposal
https://wjarr.com/content/environmental-and-ecological-impact-radioactive-waste-disposal
#pdf: https://wjarr.com/sites/default/files/fulltext_pdf/WJARR-2023-0728.pdf
2023
#Atommüll #Bioaccumulation #Biodiversity #Contamination #EcologicalImpact #NuclearWaste #RadioactiveWaste #Remediation
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#RadioactiveWaste leakage would be threat to area: critic
By Doug Diaczuk The Chronicle-Journal Apr 22, 2025
"A radioactive waste specialist from the United States says #NuclearWaste disposal sites place a giant bullseye on an area, as well as all communities along the transportation route, and residents of Northern #Ontario should take notice.
"#KevinKamps, a radioactive waste specialist with #BeyondNuclear, a non-profit advocacy group in the United States, will be speaking in Thunder Bay at Environment North's annual meeting on Wednesday [April 23].
"Kamps has opposed several nuclear waste sites across North America, including a site in the #YuccaMountains in #Nevada and a site at #Kincardine in #Ontario at the #BruceNuclear Generating Station.
" 'That was a 20-year campaign all told, but we prevailed in the end,' Kamps said of the Kincardine site in an interview with The Chronicle-Journal.
"The Nuclear Waste Management Organization [#NWM] identified a site between #Ignace and #Wabigoon Lake as the location for a proposed deep geological repository [#DGR] for #SpentFuel from #Canadian #NuclearPower plants.
"Last summer, the #TownshipOfIgnace expressed a willingness to be the host community for the repository following a survey showing the majority of residents supported the site.
"But several #FirstNation communities have spoken out in opposition to the site, citing #environmental concerns and the safety of transporting spent fuel through the region.
"Kamps said if anything was to go wrong at the deep geological repository site it would be catastrophic: 'for all points #downstream, #downwind, up the #FoodChain, down the generations.'
" 'In your neck of the woods, what I find ironic is the current target in your area is just outside of the #GreatLakes basin and I think it is a raw political calculation to try to silence what has been more than a decade of U.S. congressional opposition to the #LakeHuronDump,' he said.
" 'Now magically a site has been chosen outside of the Great Lakes basin.'
"There are many safety concerns to take into consideration when it comes to nuclear waste, Kamps said, beginning with the transportation of nuclear material to the site itself.
" 'One of the most controversial aspects is the transportation component, because it makes it everyone's problem along those routes,' he said. 'So that is another part of our challenge, to educate communities that would be along the most likely transportation route, be it road, rail, or waterway.'
"Then there is the site itself, which Kamps said could be vulnerable to #ExtremeWeather, #NaturalDisasters, or even potential attacks.
" 'You had better know your geology really well because if and when this starts leaking from its containers into the geology, then it's a question of how long will it take to mix with underground waterflows and perhaps even surface waterflows,' he said. 'And then the risk flows with the water, and with the air.'
"For those opposed to such sites, Kamps said the best way to fight back is through the democratic process and engaging with government representatives at all levels.
"He cited the opposition to the #Kincardine site that was a 20-year fight and the role First Nations communities played.
" 'An important part of that was the #SaugeenOjibwayNation who asked good questions and in the end voted 86 per cent no to that dump coming into their community,' he said.
"In terms of what to do with nuclear waste from generating stations, Kamps said it should stay at the site of origin."
#EnvironmentalRacism #GreatLakesBasin #WaterIsLife #AirIsLife #NuclearDumping #ClimateChange #NoNukes #RethinkNotRestart #NoNukesForAI #NoDumpingWithoutConsent
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We Work The Black Seam
"This place has changed for good
Your economic theory said it wouldIt's hard for us to understand
We can't give up our jobs the way we shouldOur blood has stained the #coal
We tunneled deep inside the nations soulWe matter more than pounds and pence
Your economic theory makes no senseOne day in a #nuclear age
They may understand our rage
They build machines that they can't control
And bury the waste in a great big holePower was to become cheap and clean
Grimey faces were never seen
Deadly for 12,000 years
Is #Carbon14We work the black seam together
We work the black seam togetherThe seam lies underground
Three million years of pressure packed it downWe walk through ancient forest lands
And light a thousand cities with our handsYour dark satanic mills
Have made redundant all our mining skillsYou can't exchange a six-inch band
For all the poisoned streams in cumberlandOne day in a nuclear age
They may understand our rage
They build machines that they can't control
And bury the waste in a great big holePower was to become cheap and clean
Grimey faces were never seen
Deadly for 12,000 years
Is carbon 14We work the black seam together
We work the black seam togetherAnd should the children weep
The turning world will sing their souls to sleepWhen you have sunk without a trace
The universe will suck me into placeOne day in a nuclear age
They may understand our rage
They build machines that they can't control
And bury the waste in a great big holePower was to become cheap and clean
Grimey faces were never seen
Deadly for 12,000 years
Is carbon 14We work the black seam together
We work the black seam together
We work the black seam together
We work the black seam together"- #Sting, 1985
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egynEo4cIEM
#80sMusic #NoNukes #NoCoal #RethinkNotRestart #DirtyCoal #NuclearWaste #RenewablesNow! #NoNukesForAI #NoCoalForAI
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Back before the #BananaMan took over anything nuclear ("Radiation is harmless! It's even in bananas!"), there was actual reporting on the dangers of #NuclearPower (and weapons)!
#Radioactivity in the Ocean: Diluted, But Far from Harmless
With contaminated water from Japan’s crippled #Fukushima nuclear complex continuing to pour into the Pacific, scientists are concerned about how that radioactivity might affect marine life. Although the ocean’s capacity to dilute radiation is huge, signs are that nuclear isotopes are already moving up the local #FoodChain.
By Elizabeth Grossman • April 7, 2011
"Over the past half-century, the world has seen its share of incidents in which radioactive material has been dumped or discharged into the oceans. A British nuclear fuels plant has repeatedly released radioactive waste into the Irish Sea [#Sellafield] , a French nuclear reprocessing plant has discharged similar waste into the #EnglishChannel, and for decades the Soviets dumped large quantities of radioactive material into the #ArcticOcean, #KaraSea, and #BarentsSea. That radioactive material included reactors from at least 16 Soviet #nuclear-powered submarines and icebreakers, and large amounts of liquid and solid #NuclearWaste from USSR military bases and weapons plants."
Read more:
https://e360.yale.edu/features/radioactivity_in_the_ocean_diluted_but_far_from_harmless#OceansAreLife #NoNukes #PlutoKun #NoNuclearWeapons #NuclearPollution #NuclearPlants #FloatingNuclearPlants #RethinkNotRestart #NoNuclearWar
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The growing movement of #Indigenous leaders across #NorthernOntario opposing #NuclearWaste dump
'We live off the land every day. It’s the most precious food market we have in the world'
October 3, 2024
Jon Thompson"#FirstNations opposing nuclear waste burial in northwestern Ontario are growing in number and are now mobilizing across the region.
"A fledgling movement of Indigenous leaders hosted a small rally with non-Indigenous allies in #ThunderBay on Wednesday, with a refrain of 'Gaa-Wiin,' the #Anishinaabemowin word meaning 'no' to nuclear waste burial.
"The demonstration followed a letter signed by nine chiefs last week, asking the Nuclear Waste Management Organization to respect their will not to bury Canada’s most #radioactive nuclear waste in a #DeepRepository site between the town of #Ignace and #WabigoonLake #Ojibway First Nation.
"The #NWMO is expected to issue a final decision by year’s end as to whether it will transport used #NuclearFuel, produced since the 1960s, by either train or highway over 1,600 kilometres to a deep geological repository. If the Ignace is chosen over Bruce County, where nuclear energy and its waste is produced, transportation would begin in the 2040s and will take 40 years to complete.
"Although the site selection process has been underway for 20 years, the looming final decision has prompted political actions, including a larger #ThunderBay demonstration in April and a march last month along the highway near the proposed site.
"'I don’t know why some people just don’t understand,' Asubpeeschoseewagong #Anishinabek (#GrassyNarrows First Nation) #ChiefRudyTurtle told the crowd of around 300 people. 'It’s so simple: no means no. That’s all it is. Why can’t you understand that? We are saying no, we don’t want nuclear waste.'"
"Thirteen First Nations have now signed on to last week’s statement opposing the repository, including #NorthwestAngle #33, whose leadership committed to the cause on Wednesday. Signatories include #FortWilliamFirstNation, #Gakijiwanong #Anishinaabe (#LacLaCroix First Nation), #GullBayFirstNation, #Kitchenuhmaykoosib #Inninuwug (#BigTroutLake First Nation), #MuskratDam First Nation, #Neskantaga First Nation, #NetmizaaggamigNishnaabeg (Pic Mobert First Nation), #Ojibways of #Onigaming, #ShoalLake #40 First Nation, #Wapekeka First Nation, #WauzhushkOnigum Nation."
#NoNukes #NoWar #NuclearWasteDump #InformedConsent #CanadaFirstNations #NuclearTransport #NativeAmericanNews
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We Work The Black Seam
by #Sting
"This place has changed for good
Your economic theory said it would"It's hard for us to understand
We can't give up our jobs the way we should"Our blood has stained the #coal
We tunneled deep inside the nations soul"We matter more than pounds and pence
Your economic theory makes no sense"One day in a #nuclear age
They may understand our rage
They build machines that they can't control
And bury the waste in a great big hole"Power was to become cheap and clean
Grimey faces were never seen
Deadly for 12,000 years
Is #Carbon14"We work the black seam together
We work the black seam together"The seam lies underground
Three million years of pressure packed it down"We walk through ancient forest lands
And light a thousand cities with our hands"Your dark satanic mills
Have made redundant all our mining skills"You can't exchange a six-inch band
For all the poisoned streams in cumberland"One day in a nuclear age
They may understand our rage
They build machines that they can't control
And bury the waste in a great big hole"Power was to become cheap and clean
Grimey faces were never seen
Deadly for 12,000 years
Is carbon 14"We work the black seam together
We work the black seam together"And should the children weep
The turning world will sing their souls to sleep"When you have sunk without a trace
The universe will suck me into place"One day in a nuclear age
They may understand our rage
They build machines that they can't control
And bury the waste in a great big hole"Power was to become cheap and clean
Grimey faces were never seen
Deadly for 12,000 years
Is carbon 14We work the black seam together
We work the black seam together
We work the black seam together
We work the black seam together"- Gordon Sumner, 1985
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmC61VHVZAM
#CoalPower #CoalMining #UraniumMining #NoNukes #NuclearWaste #BlackSeam #AirPollution #MercuryPoisoning #Radiation #HumanFolly