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From 2013: Ten Most #Radioactive Places on Earth Mapped Out [GRAPHIC]

"Do you know the dirty side of the #NuclearIndustry? After researching this article by brainz.org, we were shocked to find out how truly awful our radioactive waste problem is and how it is going to be hurting us all, for a long time to come. Please take the time to read the links below, share this with your friends, and discuss solutions to these problems. ~ Jim Lee, #ClimateViewer News

"This list is not a definitive TOP TEN, it is simply ten very disgusting examples of nuclear warfare against the citizens of this world."

Read more:
https://climateviewer.com/2013/11/24/10-most-radioactive-places-on-earth/

#Hanford #Sellafield #Chernobyl #Fukushima #Mediterranean #Mayak #SomalianCoast #Kazakhstan #Chernobyl #Kyrgyzstan #EnvironmentalRacism #IndigenousPeoples #SiberianChemicalCompound #NoNukes #RethinkNotRestart #RenewablesNow #NuclearDumping #NuclearColonialism

#Diné Youth at #WorldWaterWeek in Sweden 2024

#BlackMesa youth travel to Stockholm, Sweden, for World Water Week to share the need to protect our water in the face of #FalseSolutions and #ClimateChange.

by Adrian Herder, Media/Community Organizer, #CensoredNews
[email protected]

FLAGSTAFF, Arizona – "On Friday, August 23, 2024, members of #TóNizhóníÁní traveled to Stockholm, Sweden, for World Water Week 2024, an international leading conference on global water issues organized by the Stockholm International Water Institute. Earlier this year, Tó Nizhóní Ání was invited to attend World Water Week 2024 and asked to be on a panel on #GreenColonialism. The #Sámi national youth organization, #Sáminuorra, organized this panel. Given this panel's #Indigenous youth focus, Tó Nizhóní Ání took this opportunity to fund raise and send a delegation of Diné (#Navajo) youth from the Black Mesa region to represent and speak on this topic.

"During the panel on Green Colonialism, #JarenNumkena, Diné youth from Black Mesa, spoke on his upbringing as a farmer, the history of his family as a #coal-impacted community member, and the proposed projects on and near Black Mesa, such as the #BlackMesaPumpedStorageProject and the #HydrogenPipeline. As our nation moves to alternative forms of energy, we must do so in a way that does not use or impact our water on the #NavajoNation, which is why we need #solar and #wind energy."

Read more:
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/09/dine-youth-at-world-water-week-in.html

#WaterIsLife #WaterProtectors #RenewablesNow #Greenwashing #NoMiningWithoutConsent #RecycleCopper #LithiumAlternatives #PeabodyCoal #PeabodyEnergy #CorporateColonialism #ProtectTheSacred #ProtectMotherEarth #ReaderSupportedNews

Which rural area will take the UK’s nuclear waste?

"One [#Sellafield's] oldest waste storage silos is currently leaking radioactive liquid into the ground. That is a 'recurrence of a historic leak' that Sellafield Ltd, the company that operates the site, says first started in the 1970s."

Victoria Gill and Kate Stephens
September 8, 2024

"A repeating tone - blip, blip, blip - is the audible reminder that we are in one of the most hazardous nuclear sites in the world: Sellafield.

"That sound - pulsing from speakers inside the cavernous fuel-handling plant - is a signal that everything is functioning as it should.

"That is comforting because Sellafield, in Cumbria, is the temporary home to the vast majority of the UK’s radioactive #NuclearWaste, as well as the world’s largest stockpile of #plutonium.

"That waste is the product of reactions that drive the UK’s nuclear power stations and it is highly #radioactive.

"It releases energy that can penetrate and damage the cells in our bodies, and 'it remains hazardous for 100,000 years', explains Claire Corkhill, professor of radioactive waste management at University of Bristol.

"Sellafield is filling up - and experts say we have no choice but to find somewhere new to keep this material safe.

"Nuclear power is also part of the government’s stated mission for 'clean [sic] power by 2030'. More nuclear power means more nuclear waste."

Read more:
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/czx6e2x0kdyo

#NoNukes #NoWar #RenewablesNow #RethinkNotRestart #Uranium #NuclearWasteDump

#California’s #PowerGrid passed the reliability test this #HeatWave. It’s all about giant #batteries

By Ari Plachta
Updated July 16, 2024

"California’s power grid emerged from a nearly three weeklong record-setting heat wave relatively unscathed, and officials are crediting years of investment in #RenewableEnergy — particularly #GiantBatteries that store #SolarPower for use when the sun stops shining.

"'This was a good early test that we passed in very good shape,' said Elliot Mainzer, president and CEO of California Independent System Operator (#CAISO), on Monday. 'Investments in new clean energy and in dispatchable battery storage played a major role.'

"CAISO last issued calls for voluntary conservation two years ago, during a 2022 bout of #ExtremeHeat. Since then, roughly 11,600 megawatts of new #renewable energy sources have come onto California’s electricity grid. That includes 10,000 megawatts of battery power, enough to power 10 million homes for a few hours. California is now home to the most #GridBatteries in the world outside of China, Mainzer said. 'Batteries performed very well in this event, they were charged and ready at the right times for optimization on the grid,' he added. 'That made a big, big difference.'"

Read more at: https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article290009339.html#storylink=cpy

#StorageBatteries #HeatWaves #RenewablesNow #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming

@doomscroller And yeah, #NoNukes! #RenewablesNow #StorageBatteries now!