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DoomsdaysCWFrom my friend in Japan...Two years after the release of treated water at the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FukushimaDaiichi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FukushimaDaiichi</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/nuclear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#nuclear</a> power plant began, more than a hundred thousand tons were washed into the sea, but new <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/contaminated" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#contaminated</a> water is occurring every dayAugust 24, 2025 at 06:00 "It has been two years since the ocean release of treated water accumulated at the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TEPCO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TEPCO</a>’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant began. The radioactive substance <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/tritium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#tritium</a> remains in the water even after the purification process. In June, China, which completely stopped importing Japanese seafood, resumed production in 37 prefectures, but Fukushima and other ten prefectures are still not eligible. There is no end to the ocean release, and the impact of the nuclear accident on the fishing industry continues."Tank treated water and contaminated water have been reduced by only fifty-six thousand tons."The ocean release was first released on August 24th, and the 14th time was launched on August 7th this month. Up to the 13th time, a total of one hundred and eighty-seven tons of treated water were released."The treated water and contaminated water stored in a tank on the site of the nuclear power plant before it was released into the ocean. So far, it has decreased to about fifty-six thousand tons, and it has not decreased by much the amount of release. The reason is that the contaminated water is generated about seventy tons every day, and the number of groundwater and rainwater increases due to the contact of molten nuclear fuel (debris) in the reactor building. Without the absence of contaminated water, we cannot stop releasing it into the ocean."As of July 30th, TEPCO paid about JPY790 billion in compensation in response to the slump in fish prices associated with ocean release. There is a possibility that some of China's resumption of imports will also change the price of fish, but Fukushima Prefecture continues to be stopped."37 Export application procedures for fishery products produced in Hokkaido Prefecture have begun. A person in charge of the processing and distribution section of the Fisheries Agency said, 'There are many applications, and the desire to resume is strong. We will continue to work with China to reopen the ten prefectures.' Riki Arai)"The place where the 'sludge' due to the treatment of contaminated water is about to be full."Two years have passed since the release of treated water into the ocean due to the TEPCO’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident. The treated water stored in the nuclear power plant is gradually reduced by ocean release, while the storage and disposal of sludge contaminated with high concentrations that continue to occur in the process of treatment of contaminated water is becoming an issue."In the process of removing radioactive substances from contaminated water, sludge is produced by precipitating impurities with chemicals. Liquids and solids are mixed... " [Unfortunately, the rest is behind paywall]Source: <a href="https://www.tokyo-np.co.jp/article/430612" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.tokyo-np.co.jp/article/430612</a><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FukushimaIsntOver" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FukushimaIsntOver</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TEPCOLied" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TEPCOLied</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TEPCOLies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TEPCOLies</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WaterIsLife</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/OceansAreLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OceansAreLife</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterContamination" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WaterContamination</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Radiation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Radiation</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Bioaccumulation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Bioaccumulation</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoRadioactiveDumping" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NoRadioactiveDumping</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RethinkNotRestart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RethinkNotRestart</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoNukes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NoNukes</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoMoreFukushimas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NoMoreFukushimas</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearWasteIsForever" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NuclearWasteIsForever</a>

DoomsdaysCWBut keep dumping partially treated <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RadioactiveWater" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RadioactiveWater</a> into the oceans, eh <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TEPCO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TEPCO</a> / <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Japan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Japan</a>?!!Walmart recalls frozen shrimp over potential radioactive contamination Clouds pass over the Walmart store, Thursday, Aug. 14, 2025, in Manchester, N.H. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)By JONEL ALECCIA, August 19, 2025Excerpt: "The FDA is investigating reports of Cesium-137 contamination in shipping containers and products processed by P.T. Bahari Makmur Sejati, doing business as BMS Foods of Indonesia. U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials alerted FDA that they found Cesium-137 in shipping containers sent to U.S. ports in Los Angeles, Houston, Miami and Savannah, Georgia. "<a href="https://apnews.com/article/walmart-frozen-shrimp-radioactive-cesium137-e001de4193ad435bfa8f3c126b8cb3b2" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://apnews.com/article/walmart-frozen-shrimp-radioactive-cesium137-e001de4193ad435bfa8f3c126b8cb3b2</a><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/OceansAreLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OceansAreLife</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WaterIsLife</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoFukushimaDumping" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NoFukushimaDumping</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RethinkNotRestart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RethinkNotRestart</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TEPCOLied" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TEPCOLied</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FukushimaIsntOver" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FukushimaIsntOver</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RenewablesNow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RenewablesNow</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoNukes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NoNukes</a>

DoomsdaysCW<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/French" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#French</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearPower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NuclearPower</a> production expected to be reduced on WednesdayBy Reuters August 12, 2025PARIS, Aug 12 (Reuters) - "Power production at France's <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Bugey3" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Bugey3</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/nuclear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#nuclear</a> reactor in the east of the country is expected to be reduced by 500 megawatts (MW) on Wednesday, data from operator <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EDF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EDF</a> showed on Tuesday, as high river temperatures reduce the plant's ability to intake cooling water. "A <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/heatwave" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#heatwave</a> throughout <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/France" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#France</a> has led to multiple warnings of power reductions at a number of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearPlants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NuclearPlants</a>, particularly on the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RhoneRiver" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RhoneRiver</a> in the east and the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GaronneRiver" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GaronneRiver</a> in the west. "The <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Bugey" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Bugey</a> 3 reactor has a maximum capacity of 910 MW, which will be reduced to 410 MW from 2:30 p.m. (1230 GMT) to midnight on Wednesday as the reactor is required to meet environmental safety measures, EDF's data showed. "The high water temperature warnings for the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SaintAlban" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SaintAlban</a> plant - down river of the Bugey site - and the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Golfech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Golfech</a> site in the west were moved to August 14, but restrictions have not yet been issued. Average temperatures in the country are expected to continue to peak throughout the week, reaching a high of 28.5 degrees Celsius (83.3°F) on Saturday, LSEG data showed. "<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearPower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NuclearPower</a> accounts for about 70% of total French power consumption annually, but August is the main holiday season throughout the country and electricity demand is often limited."Source: <a href="https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/climate-energy/french-nuclear-power-production-expected-be-reduced-wednesday-2025-08-12/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/climate-energy/french-nuclear-power-production-expected-be-reduced-wednesday-2025-08-12/</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EuropeHeatWaves" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EuropeHeatWaves</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/France" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#France</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RethinkNotRestart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RethinkNotRestart</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoNukes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NoNukes</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoNukesForAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NoNukesForAI</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearPowerNoThanks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NuclearPowerNoThanks</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearWasteIsForever" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NuclearWasteIsForever</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearPowerPlants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NuclearPowerPlants</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ExtremeHeat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ExtremeHeat</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RenewablesNow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RenewablesNow</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RenewableEnergy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RenewableEnergy</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RethinkNotRestart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RethinkNotRestart</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LeNucl%C3%A9aireNonMerci" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LeNucléaireNonMerci</a>

DoomsdaysCW<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Jellyfish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Jellyfish</a> Shut Four French <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearReactors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NuclearReactors</a> as <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HeatWave" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HeatWave</a> BuildsBy Eamon Farhat August 11, 2025 "<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Electricite" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Electricite</a> de France SA [<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EDF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EDF</a>] was forced to shut four <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AtomicReactors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AtomicReactors</a> after a swarm of jellyfish clogged up filter drums at its <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Gravelines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Gravelines</a> power plant. "The 'massive and unforeseen' [um, not if you read my posts -- very much FORESEEN] presence of jellyfish in the filter drums of pumping stations closed four out of six reactors at Gravelines on the north coast of France, EDF said in a statement on Monday. Pumping stations for coastal <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearPlants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NuclearPlants</a> usually draw in sea water for cooling, sometimes exposing them to marine life."A <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MarineHeatWave" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MarineHeatWave</a> is intensifying off the west coast of France, with unusually warm waters in the English Channel near Gravelines, data from <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Copernicus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Copernicus</a> Marine Service show. Jellyfish populations can 'bloom' at such times, and France has closed several beaches in recent weeks due to invasions of the eight-legged molluscs, according reports compiled by the beach information app Meduseo."Read more: <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-11/jellyfish-shut-four-french-nuclear-reactors-as-heat-wave-builds" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-11/jellyfish-shut-four-french-nuclear-reactors-as-heat-wave-builds</a>Archived version: <a href="https://archive.ph/bahil" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://archive.ph/bahil</a><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EuropeHeatWaves" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EuropeHeatWaves</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/France" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#France</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Jellyfish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Jellyfish</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RethinkNotRestart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RethinkNotRestart</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoNukes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NoNukes</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoNukesForAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NoNukesForAI</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearPowerNoThanks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NuclearPowerNoThanks</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearWasteIsForever" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NuclearWasteIsForever</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearPowerPlants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NuclearPowerPlants</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ExtremeHeat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ExtremeHeat</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RenewablesNow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RenewablesNow</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RenewableEnergy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RenewableEnergy</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RethinkNotRestart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RethinkNotRestart</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LeNucl%C3%A9aireNonMerci" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LeNucléaireNonMerci</a>

DoomsdaysCWThe <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HeatWave" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HeatWave</a> of late June threatens French <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/nuclear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#nuclear</a> productionWritten by Justine Dumont, Energy Renovation Expert Editor on 24 June 2025 at 08:00"<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EDF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EDF</a> plans to reduce the production of its nuclear fleet, in particular that of the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Bugey" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Bugey</a> power plant in Ain, as of Wednesday 25 June, due to the expected high temperatures. This decision comes at a time when Météo-France has placed 16 departments in orange-heat-wave vigilance since Friday 20 June."Read more (en Français): <a href="https://france3-regions.franceinfo.fr/normandie/manche/nucleaire-la-pleine-puissance-de-l-epr-de-flamanville-repoussee-d-ici-a-la-fin-de-l-automne-3196599.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://france3-regions.franceinfo.fr/normandie/manche/nucleaire-la-pleine-puissance-de-l-epr-de-flamanville-repoussee-d-ici-a-la-fin-de-l-automne-3196599.html</a><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EuropeHeatWaves" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EuropeHeatWaves</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearPowerPlants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NuclearPowerPlants</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearPlants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NuclearPlants</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoNukes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NoNukes</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearPowerNoThanks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NuclearPowerNoThanks</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearWasteIsForever" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NuclearWasteIsForever</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearPlants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NuclearPlants</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Heatwaves" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Heatwaves</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ExtremeHeat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ExtremeHeat</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RenewablesNow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RenewablesNow</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RenewableEnergy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RenewableEnergy</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RethinkNotRestart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RethinkNotRestart</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoNukes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NoNukes</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoNukesForAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NoNukesForAI</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LeNucl%C3%A9aireNonMerci" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LeNucléaireNonMerci</a>

DoomsdaysCWHT <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/@PariaSansPortefeuille" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@PariaSansPortefeuille</a> Invasion of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/jellyfish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#jellyfish</a>, heat, water too hot: <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GlobalWarming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GlobalWarming</a> threatens the functioning of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearPowerPlants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NuclearPowerPlants</a>Several reactors are regularly forced to stop to protect river <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/biodiversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#biodiversity</a>. While cuts in periods of high heat still have a very limited impact on supply, electrification of uses and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ClimateChange</a> could make a difference.Marie Toulgoat , Published 11 August 2025 "When nature paralyses the French nuclear park. Four units of the Gravelines nuclear power plant (northern) are at a standstill on Monday 11 August due to the 'mass and unforeseeable presence of jellyfish; at the water pumping stations used for the cooling of the reactors, EDF announced."These automatic stops of units 2, 3, 4 and 6 'have had no consequences on the safety of the installations, the safety of personnel or on the environment', <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EDF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EDF</a> assures on its site. The plant is thus temporarily completely shut down, as its other two production units 1 and 5 are currently under maintenance."On Sunday, 29 June, no steam volutes escaped from the chimneys of the Gulf nuclear power plant (Tarn-et-Garonne). Due to the intense <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HeatWave" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HeatWave</a> in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/France" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#France</a>, the reactor in operation at the site was shut down. In the middle of the summer of 2024, the nuclear power plant had already been forced to reduce its production." Read more (en Français): <a href="https://www.humanite.fr/environnement/canicule/meduses-canicule-eau-trop-chaude-quand-le-rechauffement-climatique-menace-le-fonctionnement-des-centrales-nucleaires" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.humanite.fr/environnement/canicule/meduses-canicule-eau-trop-chaude-quand-le-rechauffement-climatique-menace-le-fonctionnement-des-centrales-nucleaires</a>Archived version (en Français): <a href="https://archive.ph/zNGD2" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://archive.ph/zNGD2</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoNukes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NoNukes</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoNukesForAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NoNukesForAI</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearPowerNoThanks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NuclearPowerNoThanks</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearWasteIsForever" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NuclearWasteIsForever</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearPowerPlants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NuclearPowerPlants</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearPowerNoThanks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NuclearPowerNoThanks</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearPlants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NuclearPlants</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Heatwaves" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Heatwaves</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ExtremeHeat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ExtremeHeat</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RenewablesNow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RenewablesNow</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RenewableEnergy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RenewableEnergy</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RethinkNotRestart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RethinkNotRestart</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoNukes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NoNukes</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoNukesForAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NoNukesForAI</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Atomkraft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Atomkraft</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AtomkraftNeinDanke" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AtomkraftNeinDanke</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LeNucl%C3%A9aireNonMerci" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LeNucléaireNonMerci</a>

DoomsdaysCW[Paywall] From 2021: Increase in frequency of nuclear power outages due to changing climateby Ali Ahmad Nature Energy volume 6, pages 755–762 (2021)Abstract:"Climate-related changes have already affected operating conditions for different types of energy system, in particular power plants. With more than three decades of data on changing climate, we are now in a position to empirically assess the impact of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ClimateChange</a> on power plant operations. Such empirical assessments can provide an additional measure of the resilience of power plants going forward. Here I analyse climate-linked outages in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearPowerPlants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NuclearPowerPlants</a> over the past three decades. My assessment shows that the average frequency of climate-induced disruptions has dramatically increased from 0.2 outage per reactor-year in the 1990s to 1.5 in the past decade. Based on the projections for adopted climate scenarios, the average annual energy loss of the global nuclear fleet is estimated to range between 0.8% and 1.4% in the mid-term (2046–2065) and 1.4% and 2.4% in the long term (2081–2100)."<a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41560-021-00849-y" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.nature.com/articles/s41560-021-00849-y</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearPlants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NuclearPlants</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearPowerNoThanks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NuclearPowerNoThanks</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ClimateChange</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Heatwaves" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Heatwaves</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ExtremeHeat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ExtremeHeat</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RenewablesNow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RenewablesNow</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RenewableEnergy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RenewableEnergy</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RethinkNotRestart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RethinkNotRestart</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoNukes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NoNukes</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoNukesForAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NoNukesForAI</a>

DoomsdaysCWWe’re having a <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/heatwave" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#heatwave</a>...And <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearPower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NuclearPower</a> can’t cope. Worse still, it’s actually a liability under ever more extreme climate conditions, write Karl Grossman and Harvey WassermanPosted on July 27, 2025, by <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BeyondNuclear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BeyondNuclear</a> "At the core of the latest attempted 'renaissance' of nuclear power is the big lie that <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AtomicReactors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AtomicReactors</a> are an answer to <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GlobalWarming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GlobalWarming</a>. In fact, they are significant sources of heat."There are more than 400 nuclear power plants in the world today that fission atoms at 300 degrees Centigrade, (572 degrees Fahrenheit). More are under construction or proposed. As the International Atomic Energy Agency states, 'water-cooled reactors offer heat up to 300 degrees Celsius. These types of reactors include pressurized water reactors (PWRs), boiling-water reactors (BWRs), pressurized heavy-water reactors, and light-water-cooled graphite-moderated reactors (LWGRs).'"Some heat is absorbed in the water—drawn from water bodies—used to cool these nuclear power plants and then returned, still with considerable heat, to <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/rivers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#rivers</a> or <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/seas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#seas</a>."The heatwave going on in recent weeks in Europe, in combination with this discharge of heated water from nuclear plants, has caused <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearPlants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NuclearPlants</a> there to shut down."Consider these headlines from recent days:" '<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/France" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#France</a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Switzerland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Switzerland</a> shut down nuclear power plants amid scorching heatwave,' was the July 3rd headline on Euronews. As the piece explained: “To cool down, nuclear power plants pump water from local rivers or the sea, which they then release back into water bodies at a high temperature. However, Europe’s ongoing heatwave means that the water pumped by nuclear sites is already very hot, impacting the ability of nuclear plants to use it to cool down. On top of this, nuclear sites run the risk of posing a dangerous threat to local <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/biodiversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#biodiversity</a>, by releasing water which is too hot into rivers and seas.'"A New York Times article, also dated July 3rd, related how in Europe, 'operators shut down one of the two reactors at the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Golfech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Golfech</a> nuclear power plant in southern <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/France" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#France</a> after forecasts that the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GaronneRiver" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GaronneRiver</a>, from which it draws water and then discharges it after it is used in the plant as coolant, 'could top…82 degrees Fahrenheit.' The Times continued: 'The <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Beznau" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Beznau</a> Nuclear Power Plant in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Switzerland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Switzerland</a>, built along the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AareRiver" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AareRiver</a> followed suit, shutting down one of its reactors on Tuesday and the other on Wednesday.' " Source: <a href="https://beyondnuclearinternational.org/blog/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://beyondnuclearinternational.org/blog/</a><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ExtremeHeat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ExtremeHeat</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ClimateChange</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearPowerPlants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NuclearPowerPlants</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearPowerNoThanks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NuclearPowerNoThanks</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RenewablesNow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RenewablesNow</a>! <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WaterIsLife</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoNukes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NoNukes</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RethinkNotRestart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RethinkNotRestart</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoNukesForAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NoNukesForAI</a>

DoomsdaysCW<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FukushimaNuclearPlant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FukushimaNuclearPlant</a> clean-up faces yet another delayStory by Mari Yamaguchi, July 29, 2025"The full-scale removal of melted nuclear fuel from the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/tsunami" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#tsunami</a>-wrecked <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FukushimaDaiichi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FukushimaDaiichi</a> power plant has been delayed by several years, with the operator now targeting 2037 or later for the crucial operation."Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings (<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TEPCO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TEPCO</a>) announced the setback on Tuesday, underscoring the immense challenges still facing the site."TEPCO stated that 12 to 15 years of preparation are required before commencing full-scale debris removal at the No. 3 reactor, involving radiation reduction and facility construction."An estimated 880 tons of melted nuclear fuel and structural debris remain within the three reactors that suffered meltdowns following the 2011 earthquake and tsunami."This latest delay further jeopardises the Japanese government and TEPCO's existing 2051 target for decommissioning the plant."A test retrieval of a small fuel sample in November was already three years behind schedule, with some experts suggesting the entire <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/decommissioning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#decommissioning</a> process could extend beyond a century."TEPCO said it plans to stick to the current completion target of 2051." 'Realistically, we are aware of the difficulty (to achieve the target) but we will not drop the goal just yet, as we still don't have a clear work schedule after the full-scale removal begins,' said Akira Ono, chief decommissioning officer at TEPCO."Ono said TEPCO plans to examine preparation work necessary at the two other reactors within the next couple of years ahead of full-scale melted fuel retrieval."After small missions by robots [that were fried by radiation] to gather samples, experts will determine a larger-scale method for removing melted fuel, first at the No. 3 reactor."In May, Japan announced plans to use slightly radioactive soil, stored near Fukushima nuclear plant, for flower beds outside Prime Minister <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ShigeruIshiba" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ShigeruIshiba</a>’s office. [Maybe put more waste there as well! Useless politicians! Who have access to <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PrussianBlue" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PrussianBlue</a> pills which remove <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Cesium137" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Cesium137</a> from one's body!]"The move is intended to demonstrate the safety of reusing soil that was removed from Fukushima prefecture during decontamination efforts following the 2011 nuclear disaster. Officials say that some of the soil has now reached levels deemed safe for reuse." [Using faulty dosimeters, I'll wager!]<a href="https://apnews.com/article/japan-fukushima-nuclear-plant-decommissioning-meltdown-fd41d18eac406d7ffc7afb2785f1fa63" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://apnews.com/article/japan-fukushima-nuclear-plant-decommissioning-meltdown-fd41d18eac406d7ffc7afb2785f1fa63</a><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoNukes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NoNukes</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoNukesForAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NoNukesForAI</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TEPCOLies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TEPCOLies</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RethinkNotRestart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RethinkNotRestart</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FukushimaIsntOver" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FukushimaIsntOver</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearPowerPlants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NuclearPowerPlants</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearWaste" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NuclearWaste</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearPowerNoThanks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NuclearPowerNoThanks</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearPowerCorruptionAndLies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NuclearPowerCorruptionAndLies</a>

DoomsdaysCWPaper: <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ClimateChange</a>: Assessment of the Vulnerability of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearPowerPlants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NuclearPowerPlants</a> and Approaches for their Adaptation Adobe Acrobat PDF Document - on 6/2/25 at 12:01 PM"Climate change will create specific risks and challenges for nuclear power plants and the electricity system as a whole. <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ExtremeWeather" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ExtremeWeather</a> events caused by climate change – such as <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/floods" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#floods</a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/storms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#storms</a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HeatWaves" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HeatWaves</a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/droughts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#droughts</a> – have already affected the operation of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearPower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NuclearPower</a> plants. Any increase in the temperature of the water used to cool nuclear power plants can also lead to reductions in their power output due to decreasing thermal efficiency."This report sets out the adaptation strategies that can be effectively implemented to improve the resilience of existing plants as well as any new installations. The costs of adaptation to climate change can vary significantly depending on the type of reactor, the climate change issues affecting them, as well as the applicable regulations and standards. However, while these adaptation costs can, in some cases, be significant, the costs of inaction – both directly at the plant level and indirectly for the electricity system – are likely to be even higher."<a href="https://www.oecd-nea.org/jcms/pl_61802/climate-change-assessment-of-the-vulnerability-of-nuclear-power-plants-and-approaches-for-their-adaptation?details=true" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.oecd-nea.org/jcms/pl_61802/climate-change-assessment-of-the-vulnerability-of-nuclear-power-plants-and-approaches-for-their-adaptation?details=true</a><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RethinkNotRestart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RethinkNotRestart</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoNukesForAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NoNukesForAI</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearPower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NuclearPower</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearWaste" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NuclearWaste</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CostOverruns" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CostOverruns</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoNukes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NoNukes</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearPowerCorruptionAndLies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NuclearPowerCorruptionAndLies</a>

DoomsdaysCW<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RadioactiveWaste" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RadioactiveWaste</a> leakage would be threat to area: criticBy Doug Diaczuk The Chronicle-Journal Apr 22, 2025"A radioactive waste specialist from the United States says <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearWaste" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NuclearWaste</a> disposal sites place a giant bullseye on an area, as well as all communities along the transportation route, and residents of Northern <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Ontario" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Ontario</a> should take notice."<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/KevinKamps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#KevinKamps</a>, a radioactive waste specialist with <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BeyondNuclear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BeyondNuclear</a>, 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 <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/YuccaMountains" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#YuccaMountains</a> in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Nevada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Nevada</a> and a site at <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Kincardine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Kincardine</a> in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Ontario" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Ontario</a> at the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BruceNuclear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BruceNuclear</a> 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 [<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NWM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NWM</a>] identified a site between <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Ignace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Ignace</a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Wabigoon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Wabigoon</a> Lake as the location for a proposed deep geological repository [<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DGR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DGR</a>] for <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SpentFuel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SpentFuel</a> from <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Canadian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Canadian</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearPower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NuclearPower</a> plants."Last summer, the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TownshipOfIgnace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TownshipOfIgnace</a> expressed a willingness to be the host community for the repository following a survey showing the majority of residents supported the site."But several <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FirstNation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FirstNation</a> communities have spoken out in opposition to the site, citing <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/environmental" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#environmental</a> 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 <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/downstream" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#downstream</a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/downwind" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#downwind</a>, up the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FoodChain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FoodChain</a>, 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 <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GreatLakes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GreatLakes</a> 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 <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LakeHuronDump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LakeHuronDump</a>,' 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 <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ExtremeWeather" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ExtremeWeather</a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NaturalDisasters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NaturalDisasters</a>, 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 <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Kincardine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Kincardine</a> site that was a 20-year fight and the role First Nations communities played." 'An important part of that was the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SaugeenOjibwayNation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SaugeenOjibwayNation</a> 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."Source: <a href="https://www.chroniclejournal.com/news/local/radioactive-waste-leakage-would-be-threat-to-area-critic/article_f0dd8d6f-f8db-404e-ac4c-3e91b5330af2.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.chroniclejournal.com/news/local/radioactive-waste-leakage-would-be-threat-to-area-critic/article_f0dd8d6f-f8db-404e-ac4c-3e91b5330af2.html</a><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnvironmentalRacism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EnvironmentalRacism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GreatLakesBasin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GreatLakesBasin</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WaterIsLife</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AirIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AirIsLife</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearDumping" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NuclearDumping</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ClimateChange</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoNukes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NoNukes</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RethinkNotRestart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RethinkNotRestart</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoNukesForAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NoNukesForAI</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoDumpingWithoutConsent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NoDumpingWithoutConsent</a>

DoomsdaysCW<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SouthBruce" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SouthBruce</a> staff to prepare report on second <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearWaste" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NuclearWaste</a> repositoryAs runners-up in the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NWMO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NWMO</a>'s first site-selection process, the municipality of South Bruce is uniquely positioned as the organization now seeks a second site to bury nuclear waste deep underground.Greg Cowan Published Jul 28, 2025 Excerpt: "The proposed site faced significant public opposition, including from the Protecting Our Waterways – No Nuclear Waste group. Furthermore, the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SaugeenOjibwayNation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SaugeenOjibwayNation</a>, with its traditional territory stretching from the tip of the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BrucePeninsula" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BrucePeninsula</a> to south of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Goderich" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Goderich</a>, announced earlier this year that it plans to issue a <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/moratorium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#moratorium</a> on future nuclear intensification and waste projects if no progress is made on addressing nuclear legacy issues in its territory." 'We will enforce this moratorium by all legal and political means necessary until a just and satisfactory resolution is in place,' the letter signed by <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Nawash" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Nawash</a> Chief <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GregNadjiwon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GregNadjiwon</a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Saugeen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Saugeen</a> Chief <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ConradRitchie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ConradRitchie</a> stated. 'Accordingly, the Nuclear Advisory Committee has been directed to pursue the resolution of legacy issues through agreements with Ontario Power Generation (<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/OPG" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OPG</a>), the Nuclear Waste Management Organization (<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NWMO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NWMO</a>), other private nuclear operators, as well as the federal and provincial governments.' "Read more: <a href="https://www.owensoundsuntimes.com/news/local-news/south-bruce-staff-to-prepare-report-on-second-nuclear-waste-repository" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.owensoundsuntimes.com/news/local-news/south-bruce-staff-to-prepare-report-on-second-nuclear-waste-repository</a><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DGR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DGR</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RadioactiveWaste" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RadioactiveWaste</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearEnergy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NuclearEnergy</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearWaste" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NuclearWaste</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FirstNations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FirstNations</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NativeAmericans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NativeAmericans</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NativeAmericanNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NativeAmericanNews</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoDumpingWithoutConsent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NoDumpingWithoutConsent</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RespectTheTreaties" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RespectTheTreaties</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CanPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CanPol</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WaterIsLife</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoNukes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NoNukes</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RethinkNotRestart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RethinkNotRestart</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearDumping" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NuclearDumping</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearInjustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NuclearInjustice</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnvironmentalRacism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EnvironmentalRacism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/OntarioPowerGeneration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OntarioPowerGeneration</a>

DoomsdaysCWSON Says Legacy Issues Not Addressed, Sets Deadline For <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Nuclear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Nuclear</a> Moratorium Claire McCormack Jan 24, 2025 <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SaugeenOjibwayNation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SaugeenOjibwayNation</a> Chiefs' statement: “For many decades our land has been exploited for the production of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearEnergy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NuclearEnergy</a> and storage of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RadioactiveWaste" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RadioactiveWaste</a>. This occurred without consultation or SON <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/consent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#consent</a>. Today,our territory holds the vast majority of of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Canada</a>’s <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearWaste" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NuclearWaste</a> and hosts one of the largest <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/nuclear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#nuclear</a> facilities in the world. Even now, following the announcement by <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NWMO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NWMO</a> that it will seek to build a deep geological repository (<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DGR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DGR</a>) for used fuel in the north, SON is expected to continue to host the used fuel for another 60 years without our consent and without redress while the DGR undergoes the assessment process licensing and permitting processes and construction. "It is unacceptable that we continue to face inaction from <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/OPG" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OPG</a> and other members of the nuclear industry and government in addressing these injustices for the SON people. Their repeated failure to uphold commitments is an ongoing affront to SON’s rights. Our joint chiefs and council have taken a strong stance: We will not allow the exploitation of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Anishinaabekiing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Anishinaabekiing</a> without a fair and just resolution.”<a href="https://www.560cfos.ca/2025/01/24/son-says-legacy-issues-not-addressed-sets-deadline-for-nuclear-moratorium/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.560cfos.ca/2025/01/24/son-says-legacy-issues-not-addressed-sets-deadline-for-nuclear-moratorium/</a><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FirstNations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FirstNations</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Ojibwe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Ojibwe</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NativeAmericans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NativeAmericans</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NativeAmericanNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NativeAmericanNews</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoDumpingWithoutConsent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NoDumpingWithoutConsent</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RespectTheTreaties" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RespectTheTreaties</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WaterIsLife</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoNukes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NoNukes</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RethinkNotRestart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RethinkNotRestart</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearDumping" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NuclearDumping</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearInjustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NuclearInjustice</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnvironmentalRacism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EnvironmentalRacism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/OntarioPowerGeneration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OntarioPowerGeneration</a>

DoomsdaysCWWhen in doubt, dump it on <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Indigenous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Indigenous</a> land! But of course!!! <sarc>In <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Hokkaido" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Hokkaido</a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndigenousLand" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#IndigenousLand</a> rights have added another layer to the division of opinions in Suttsu and Kamoenai over whether to host a permanent underground repository for Japan’s <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearWaste" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NuclearWaste</a>. <a href="https://www.japantimes.co.jp/environment/2025/07/06/energy/hokkaido-ainu-nuclear-waste-storage/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.japantimes.co.jp/environment/2025/07/06/energy/hokkaido-ainu-nuclear-waste-storage/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearColonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NuclearColonialism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnvironmentalRacism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EnvironmentalRacism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndigenousPeople" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#IndigenousPeople</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AinuPeople" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AinuPeople</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Ainu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Ainu</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoNukes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NoNukes</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoNukesForAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NoNukesForAI</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RethinkNotRestart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RethinkNotRestart</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FukushimaIsntOver" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FukushimaIsntOver</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RenewablesNow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RenewablesNow</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearWaste" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NuclearWaste</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearEnergy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NuclearEnergy</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Environment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Environment</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Energy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Energy</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Hokkaido" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Hokkaido</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoNuclearDumping" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NoNuclearDumping</a>

DoomsdaysCWAnd how many <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/nuclearplants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#nuclearplants</a> were restarted since <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Fukushima" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Fukushima</a>? Ugh! <a href="https://mstdn.social/@kevinrns" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@kevinrns</a> <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/@ai6yr" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@ai6yr</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RethinkNotRestart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RethinkNotRestart</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Japan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Japan</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Tsunami" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Tsunami</a>

DoomsdaysCW<a href="https://kolektiva.social/@franklinlopez" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@franklinlopez</a> Oh no! Thank you for sharing the news.<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoNukes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NoNukes</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RethinkNotRestart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RethinkNotRestart</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IrregularRhythmAsylum" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#IrregularRhythmAsylum</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/KeisukeNarita" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#KeisukeNarita</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Resistance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Resistance</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MutualAid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MutualAid</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Anarchists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Anarchists</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Solidarity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Solidarity</a>

DoomsdaysCW<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Carbon14" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Carbon14</a>: Another underestimated danger from <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/nuclear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#nuclear</a> reactors"There are a number of radionuclides released from nuclear energy facilities. This paper highlights carbon-14 for a number of reasons:- Carbon-14 is radioactive and is released into air as <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/methane" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#methane</a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CO2" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CO2</a>- Before 2010, carbon-14 releases from nuclear reactors were virtually ignored in the United States. Today only estimates are required and only under certain restrictive circumstances.- There is no good accounting of releases to date, so its impact on our health, our children’s health, and that of our <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/environment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#environment</a> remains unknown, yet environmental measurement is possible, but can be challenging under certain conditions. - Carbon-14 has a half-life of over 5700 years and the element carbon is a basic building block for life on earth. Therefore, “it constitutes a potential health hazard, whose additional production by <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/anthropogenic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#anthropogenic</a> sources of today will result in an increased <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/radiation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#radiation</a> exposure to many future generations.”- Like <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/tritium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#tritium</a>, it can collect in the tissues of the fetus at twice the concentration of the tissues in the mother, pointing to its disproportionate impact on the most vulnerable human lifecycle: the developing child.The element carbon is found in all organic substances. Carbon is also a primary constituent of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GreenhouseGases" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GreenhouseGases</a> that are responsible for <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ClimateChange</a>, such as carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane (<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CH4" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CH4</a>). Carbon-14 (c-14) is a radioactive form of carbon that occurs in nature and is also newly formed in nuclear power processes. "Carbon-14 is a health concern because it is released from <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearPower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NuclearPower</a> facilities as radioactive carbon dioxide and methane, traveling readily in the local and global environment."Over time, carbon-14 becomes part of organic material including food, and has a half-life of approximately 5,730 years, decaying by a type of radioactive particle called a beta. Its hazardous life is 10-20 times its half-life, meaning that harmful exposure to man-made carbon-14 can last for hundreds of generations. The radioactive carbon forms as a byproduct of fissioning of uranium fuel, through a process called activation. The final step is a chemical reaction between carbon-14 and oxygen or hydrogen, which forms methane or carbon dioxide. The radioactive carbon-14 formed by this process is brand new and would not exist without nuclear fission."During its long hazardous life, carbon-14 could be responsible for gross physical or mental defects, stillbirths and childhood deaths, embryonic and neonatal deaths into the many millions over the life of the isotope. "These millions could be underestimated five times or more. Carbon-14 could also be responsible for <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/leukemia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#leukemia</a>, bone and other <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/cancers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#cancers</a>."<a href="https://beyondnuclear.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/carbon14FINAL.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://beyondnuclear.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/carbon14FINAL.pdf</a><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoNukes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NoNukes</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RethinkNotRestart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RethinkNotRestart</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoNukesForAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NoNukesForAI</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RenewablesNow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RenewablesNow</a>! <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BeyondNuclear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BeyondNuclear</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearIsNotCarbonFree" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NuclearIsNotCarbonFree</a>

DoomsdaysCWWe 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 <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/coal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#coal</a> We tunneled deep inside the nations soulWe matter more than pounds and pence Your economic theory makes no senseOne day in a <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/nuclear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#nuclear</a> 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 <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Carbon14" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Carbon14</a>We 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"- <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Sting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Sting</a>, 1985<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egynEo4cIEM" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egynEo4cIEM</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/80sMusic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#80sMusic</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoNukes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NoNukes</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoCoal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NoCoal</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RethinkNotRestart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RethinkNotRestart</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DirtyCoal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DirtyCoal</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearWaste" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NuclearWaste</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RenewablesNow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RenewablesNow</a>! <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoNukesForAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NoNukesForAI</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoCoalForAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NoCoalForAI</a>

DoomsdaysCWThis from 2021. And yes, it's still sitting there. The alternatives? Desecrating <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/YuccaMountain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#YuccaMountain</a>? Polluting the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GreatLakes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GreatLakes</a>? Or maybe burying it underneath Congress? But until we figure out how to transport and permanently store nuclear waste, it is being stored on site. And not just in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Maine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Maine</a> -- everywhere there was a <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearPowerPlant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NuclearPowerPlant</a>! Armed Guards Protect Tons Of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearWaste" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NuclearWaste</a> That Maine Can’t Get Rid OfBy Abigail Curtis, BDN Published July 19, 2021"In the summertime, the picturesque village of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WiscassetME" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WiscassetME</a> is infamous for its long lines of people hungry to try a lobster roll at Red’s Eats and cars that crawl through town on the often-clogged <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/USRouteOne" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#USRouteOne</a>."But just a few miles south of downtown is a different kind of roadblock: 550 metric tons of nuclear waste stored on a coastal peninsula at the now-decommissioned <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MaineYankee" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MaineYankee</a> atomic energy plant that have nowhere to go."The change in presidential administrations means another chance for the federal government to make good on its promise to remove the waste, so the site can be closed for good. The Biden administration’s Department of Energy seems to be picking up where the Obama administration left off, creating a process for communities to volunteer to host the waste." 'What worries me is that there really isn’t any national leadership right now on this stuff. There isn’t an agency that has a mission and has developed a strategy, that has goals and is willing to act on it,' Don Hudson, the chairman of the Maine Yankee Community Advisory Panel, said. 'We’re currently in this limbo.'"That’s a problem because the waste — 1,400 spent nuclear fuel rods housed in 60 cement and steel canisters, plus four canisters of irradiated steel removed from the nuclear reactor when it was taken down — is safe for now, but can’t stay in Wiscasset forever."The situation in Wiscasset underscores a thorny issue facing more than 100 communities across the U.S.: close to a hundred thousand tons of nuclear waste that has no place to go."Securing these remnants of nuclear energy generation is an ongoing task that requires armed guards around the clock and costs Maine Yankee’s owners some $10 million per year, which is being paid for with money from the government."After the government failed to remove the spent fuel, Maine Yankee and the other two decommissioned nuclear power plants in New England — Connecticut Yankee in East Hampton, Connecticut, and Yankee Atomic in Rowe, Massachusetts — took it to court. So far, they have been awarded a total of $575.5 million in damages during four rounds of litigation, money that has been paid out of the U.S. Judgment fund. A fifth round is happening now, and the lawsuits are likely to continue until the fuel is removed."All told, the country’s many abandoned nuclear facilities — including Maine Yankee — have cost the federal government billions of dollars, a sum that increases by about $2 million each day, according to Eric Howes, the spokesperson for Maine Yankee and two other decommissioned plants in New England." 'All the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/taxpayers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#taxpayers</a> in the United States are paying for the government’s failure to meet its obligations,' he said."But as the years pass, it seems that fewer and fewer people even realize that there are tons of nuclear waste on the secured site behind a chain-link fence on Bailey Point. Hudson and others worry that for many, it’s too easy not to think about it, diminishing the drive to find a better solution." 'Nobody ever travels by it. Nobody ever sees it,' Hudson said. 'It’s the classic out of sight, out of mind.' "<a href="https://www.mainepublic.org/environment-and-outdoors/2021-07-19/armed-guards-protect-tons-of-nuclear-waste-that-maine-cant-get-rid-of" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.mainepublic.org/environment-and-outdoors/2021-07-19/armed-guards-protect-tons-of-nuclear-waste-that-maine-cant-get-rid-of</a><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/nuclear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#nuclear</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/nuclearwaste" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#nuclearwaste</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WaterIsLife</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/OceansAreLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OceansAreLife</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoNukes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NoNukes</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoNewNukes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NoNewNukes</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearWaste" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NuclearWaste</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RethinkNotRestart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RethinkNotRestart</a>

DoomsdaysCWExperts warn <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Trump</a>’s <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/nuclear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#nuclear</a> blitz could trigger ‘Next <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ThreeMileIsland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ThreeMileIsland</a>' by Brett Wilkins, Common Dreams May 24, 2025 "U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday signed a series of executive orders that will overhaul the independent federal agency that regulates the nation's nuclear power plants in order to speed the construction of new fissile reactors—a move that experts warned will increase safety risks."According to a White House statement, Trump's directives 'will usher in a nuclear energy renaissance,' in part by allowing Department of Energy laboratories to conduct nuclear reactor design testing, green-lighting reactor construction on federal lands, and lifting <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RegulatoryBarriers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RegulatoryBarriers</a> 'by requiring the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NRC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NRC</a>) to issue timely licensing decisions.""The Trump administration is seeking to shorten the yearslong NRC process of approving new licenses for nuclear power plants and reactors to within 18 months."White House Office of Science and Technology Director Michael Kratsios said Friday that 'over the last 30 years, we stopped building nuclear reactors in America—that ends now.'" 'We are restoring a strong American nuclear industrial base, rebuilding a secure and sovereign domestic nuclear fuel supply chain, and leading the world towards a future fueled by American nuclear energy,' he added. [And radioactive waste!!!]"However, the Union of Concerned Scientists (<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/UCS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#UCS</a>) warned that the executive orders will result in 'all but nullifying' the NRC's regulatory process, 'undermining the independent federal agency's ability to develop and enforce <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/safety" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#safety</a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/security" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#security</a> requirements for commercial nuclear facilities.'" 'This push by the Trump administration to usurp much of the agency's autonomy as they seek to fast-track the construction of nuclear plants will weaken critical, independent <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/oversight" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#oversight</a> of the U.S. nuclear industry and poses significant safety and security risks to the public,' UCS added."<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EdwinLyman" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EdwinLyman</a>, director of nuclear power safety at the UCS, said, 'Simply put, the U.S. nuclear industry will fail if safety is not made a priority.'" 'By fatally compromising the independence and integrity of the NRC, and by encouraging pathways for nuclear deployment that bypass the regulator entirely, the Trump administration is virtually guaranteeing that this country will see a serious accident or other <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/radiological" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#radiological</a> release that will affect the health, safety, and livelihoods of millions,' Lyman added. 'Such a disaster will destroy public trust in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearPower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NuclearPower</a> and cause other nations to reject U.S. <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/nuclear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#nuclear</a> technology for decades to come.'"Friday's executive orders follow reporting earlier this month by NPR that revealed the Trump administration has tightened control over the NRC, in part by compelling the agency to send proposed reactor safety rules to the White House for review and possible editing."<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AllisonMacfarlane" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AllisonMacfarlane</a>, who was nominated to head the NRC during the Obama administration, called the move 'the end of independence of the agency.'" 'If you aren't independent of political and industry influence, then you are at risk of an accident,' Macfarlane warned."On the first day of his second term, Trump also signed executive orders declaring a dubious 'national energy emergency' and directing federal agencies to find ways to reduce regulatory roadblocks to 'unleashing American energy, including by boosting <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FossilFuels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FossilFuels</a> and nuclear power."The rapid advancement and adoption of artificial intelligence systems is creating a tremendous need for energy that proponents say can be met by nuclear power. The Three Mile Island nuclear plant—the site of the worst nuclear accident in U.S. history—is being revived with funding from <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Microsoft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Microsoft</a>, while <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Google</a> parent company <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Alphabet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Alphabet</a>, online retail giant <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Amazon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Amazon</a>, and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Facebook" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Facebook</a> owner <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Meta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Meta</a> are among the competitors also investing in nuclear energy." 'Do we really want to create more <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RadioactiveWaste" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RadioactiveWaste</a> to power the often dubious and questionable uses of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AI</a>?' <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/JohannaNeumann" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#JohannaNeumann</a>, Environment America Research & Policy Center's senior director of the Campaign for 100% <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RenewableEnergy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RenewableEnergy</a>, asked in December." '<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BigTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BigTech</a> should recommit to solutions that not only work but pose less risk to our <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/environment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#environment</a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/health" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#health</a>,' Neumann added."<a href="https://www.rawstory.com/trump-nuclear-2672196220/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.rawstory.com/trump-nuclear-2672196220/</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RethinkNotRestart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RethinkNotRestart</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoNukes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NoNukes</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoNukesForAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NoNukesForAI</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BigTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BigTech</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnvironmentalRacism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EnvironmentalRacism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/UraniumMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#UraniumMining</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearWaste" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NuclearWaste</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TEPCOLies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TEPCOLies</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TrumpLies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TrumpLies</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HoltecLies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HoltecLies</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WaterIsLife</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearPowerPlants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NuclearPowerPlants</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Datacenters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Datacenters</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AIPollution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AIPollution</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MicrosoftSucks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MicrosoftSucks</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TrumpSucks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TrumpSucks</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearIsNotCarbonFree" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NuclearIsNotCarbonFree</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CancerRates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CancerRates</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Downwinders" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Downwinders</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearPowerCorruptionAndLies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NuclearPowerCorruptionAndLies</a>

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