DoomsdaysCW<p>NUKE WASTE DUMP: <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Ojibwe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Ojibwe</span></a> Country once again targeted</p><p>May 1, 2025 </p><p>"<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BeyondNuclear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BeyondNuclear</span></a>’s radioactive waste specialist, Kevin Kamps, presented '<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WaterIsLife</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearWasteIsToxic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearWasteIsToxic</span></a>' at the annual meeting of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnvironmentNorth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EnvironmentNorth</span></a>, in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ThunderBay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ThunderBay</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Ontario" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Ontario</span></a>, Canada, on the north shore of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LakeSuperior" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LakeSuperior</span></a>, April 23, 2025.</p><p>"Environment North is the lead local grassroots organization resisting the Canadian federal <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearWaste" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearWaste</span></a> Management Organization’s (<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NWMO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NWMO</span></a>, dominated by the nuclear industry, such as <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/OntarioPowerGeneration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OntarioPowerGeneration</span></a> - <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/OPG" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OPG</span></a>) designation of the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IgnaceWabigoonLake" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IgnaceWabigoonLake</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/OjibwayFirstNation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OjibwayFirstNation</span></a> area as the national <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RadioactiveWaste" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RadioactiveWaste</span></a> dump.</p><p>"A number of Ojibway <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FirstNation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FirstNation</span></a> Bands have also passed resolutions opposing the scheme, which would require long-distance, high-risk transportation of highly radioactive waste, from some two-dozen reactors to the east in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Canada</span></a>, on the Great Lakes, Saint Lawrence, and Atlantic."</p><p>Source [includes more info and links]:<br><a href="https://beyondnuclear.org/nuke-waste-dump-ojibwe-country-once-again-targeted/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">beyondnuclear.org/nuke-waste-d</span><span class="invisible">ump-ojibwe-country-once-again-targeted/</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnvironmentRacism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EnvironmentRacism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoDumpingWithoutConsent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoDumpingWithoutConsent</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearWasteIsForever" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearWasteIsForever</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DGR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DGR</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearPowerPlants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearPowerPlants</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearPowerNoThanks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearPowerNoThanks</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndigenousLand" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IndigenousLand</span></a></p>
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DoomsdaysCW<p>[Paywall] From 2021: Increase in frequency of nuclear power outages due to changing climate</p><p>by Ali Ahmad </p><p>Nature Energy volume 6, pages 755–762 (2021)</p><p>Abstract:</p><p>"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">#<span>ClimateChange</span></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">#<span>NuclearPowerPlants</span></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)."</p><p><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41560-021-00849-y" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nature.com/articles/s41560-021</span><span class="invisible">-00849-y</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearPlants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearPlants</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearPowerNoThanks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearPowerNoThanks</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateChange</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Heatwaves" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Heatwaves</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ExtremeHeat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ExtremeHeat</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RenewablesNow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RenewablesNow</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RenewableEnergy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RenewableEnergy</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RethinkNotRestart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RethinkNotRestart</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoNukes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoNukes</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoNukesForAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoNukesForAI</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>We’re having a <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/heatwave" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>heatwave</span></a>...</p><p>And <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearPower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearPower</span></a> can’t cope. Worse still, it’s actually a liability under ever more extreme climate conditions, write Karl Grossman and Harvey Wasserman</p><p>Posted on July 27, 2025, by <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BeyondNuclear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BeyondNuclear</span></a> </p><p>"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">#<span>AtomicReactors</span></a> are an answer to <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GlobalWarming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GlobalWarming</span></a>. In fact, they are significant sources of heat.</p><p>"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).'</p><p>"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">#<span>rivers</span></a> or <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/seas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>seas</span></a>.</p><p>"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">#<span>NuclearPlants</span></a> there to shut down.</p><p>"Consider these headlines from recent days:</p><p>" '<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/France" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>France</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Switzerland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Switzerland</span></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">#<span>biodiversity</span></a>, by releasing water which is too hot into rivers and seas.'</p><p>"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">#<span>Golfech</span></a> nuclear power plant in southern <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/France" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>France</span></a> after forecasts that the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GaronneRiver" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GaronneRiver</span></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">#<span>Beznau</span></a> Nuclear Power Plant in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Switzerland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Switzerland</span></a>, built along the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AareRiver" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AareRiver</span></a> followed suit, shutting down one of its reactors on Tuesday and the other on Wednesday.' " </p><p>Source:<br><a href="https://beyondnuclearinternational.org/blog/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">beyondnuclearinternational.org</span><span class="invisible">/blog/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ExtremeHeat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ExtremeHeat</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateChange</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearPowerPlants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearPowerPlants</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearPowerNoThanks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearPowerNoThanks</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RenewablesNow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RenewablesNow</span></a>! <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WaterIsLife</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoNukes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoNukes</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RethinkNotRestart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RethinkNotRestart</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoNukesForAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoNukesForAI</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FukushimaNuclearPlant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FukushimaNuclearPlant</span></a> clean-up faces yet another delay</p><p>Story by Mari Yamaguchi, July 29, 2025</p><p>"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">#<span>tsunami</span></a>-wrecked <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FukushimaDaiichi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FukushimaDaiichi</span></a> power plant has been delayed by several years, with the operator now targeting 2037 or later for the crucial operation.</p><p>"Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings (<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TEPCO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TEPCO</span></a>) announced the setback on Tuesday, underscoring the immense challenges still facing the site.</p><p>"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.</p><p>"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.</p><p>"This latest delay further jeopardises the Japanese government and TEPCO's existing 2051 target for decommissioning the plant.</p><p>"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">#<span>decommissioning</span></a> process could extend beyond a century.</p><p>"TEPCO said it plans to stick to the current completion target of 2051.</p><p>" '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.</p><p>"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.</p><p>"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.</p><p>"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">#<span>ShigeruIshiba</span></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">#<span>PrussianBlue</span></a> pills which remove <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Cesium137" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Cesium137</span></a> from one's body!]</p><p>"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!]</p><p><a href="https://apnews.com/article/japan-fukushima-nuclear-plant-decommissioning-meltdown-fd41d18eac406d7ffc7afb2785f1fa63" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">apnews.com/article/japan-fukus</span><span class="invisible">hima-nuclear-plant-decommissioning-meltdown-fd41d18eac406d7ffc7afb2785f1fa63</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoNukes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoNukes</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoNukesForAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoNukesForAI</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TEPCOLies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TEPCOLies</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RethinkNotRestart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RethinkNotRestart</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FukushimaIsntOver" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FukushimaIsntOver</span></a> <br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearPowerPlants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearPowerPlants</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearWaste" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearWaste</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearPowerNoThanks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearPowerNoThanks</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearPowerCorruptionAndLies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearPowerCorruptionAndLies</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>Paper: <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateChange</span></a>: Assessment of the Vulnerability of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearPowerPlants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearPowerPlants</span></a> and Approaches for their Adaptation </p><p>Adobe Acrobat PDF Document - on 6/2/25 at 12:01 PM</p><p>"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">#<span>ExtremeWeather</span></a> events caused by climate change – such as <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/floods" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>floods</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/storms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>storms</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HeatWaves" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HeatWaves</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/droughts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>droughts</span></a> – have already affected the operation of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearPower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearPower</span></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.</p><p>"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."</p><p><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"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">oecd-nea.org/jcms/pl_61802/cli</span><span class="invisible">mate-change-assessment-of-the-vulnerability-of-nuclear-power-plants-and-approaches-for-their-adaptation?details=true</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RethinkNotRestart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RethinkNotRestart</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoNukesForAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoNukesForAI</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearPower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearPower</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearWaste" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearWaste</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CostOverruns" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CostOverruns</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoNukes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoNukes</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearPowerCorruptionAndLies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearPowerCorruptionAndLies</span></a></p>
Aurianne Or<p>We are breathing uranium: <a href="https://www.aurianneor.org/we-are-breathing-uranium/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">aurianneor.org/we-are-breathin</span><span class="invisible">g-uranium/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/accidents" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>accidents</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/agriculture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>agriculture</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ammunition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ammunition</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/aurianneor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>aurianneor</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/beauty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>beauty</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/breathing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>breathing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/cancers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cancers</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/deaths" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>deaths</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/disease" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>disease</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/dust" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>dust</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/epidemiologicalstudies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>epidemiologicalstudies</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/finance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>finance</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/harmfulness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>harmfulness</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/industrial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>industrial</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/lungs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>lungs</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/malformations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>malformations</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/metals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>metals</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/money" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>money</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/non" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>non</span></a>-industrial <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/nuclearpowerplants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nuclearpowerplants</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/photomontage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>photomontage</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/radioactive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>radioactive</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/renewableenergies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>renewableenergies</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/responsible" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>responsible</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/silos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>silos</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/waste" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>waste</span></a></p>
Mark<p>France & Switzerland shut down nuclear power plants</p><p>Due to scorching <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/heatwave" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>heatwave</span></a> across <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Europe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Europe</span></a>, a number of <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/NuclearPowerPlants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearPowerPlants</span></a> in <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Switzerland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Switzerland</span></a> & <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/France" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>France</span></a> were forced to reduce activity or shut down completely as extreme temperatures prevented sites from relying on water from rivers</p><p>To cool down, <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/nuclear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nuclear</span></a> power plants use water from rivers or the sea, which they release back at a higher temperature</p><p><a href="https://www.euronews.com/2025/07/02/france-and-switzerland-shut-down-nuclear-power-plants-amid-scorching-heatwave" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">euronews.com/2025/07/02/france</span><span class="invisible">-and-switzerland-shut-down-nuclear-power-plants-amid-scorching-heatwave</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/electricity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>electricity</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/GlobalWarming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GlobalWarming</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/ClimateEmergency" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateEmergency</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/ClimateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateChange</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>Experts warn <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a>’s <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/nuclear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nuclear</span></a> blitz could trigger ‘Next <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ThreeMileIsland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ThreeMileIsland</span></a>' </p><p>by Brett Wilkins, Common Dreams<br>May 24, 2025 </p><p>"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.</p><p>"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">#<span>RegulatoryBarriers</span></a> 'by requiring the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NRC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NRC</span></a>) to issue timely licensing decisions."</p><p>"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.</p><p>"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.'</p><p>" '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!!!]</p><p>"However, the Union of Concerned Scientists (<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/UCS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UCS</span></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">#<span>safety</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/security" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>security</span></a> requirements for commercial nuclear facilities.'</p><p>" '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">#<span>oversight</span></a> of the U.S. nuclear industry and poses significant safety and security risks to the public,' UCS added.</p><p>"<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EdwinLyman" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EdwinLyman</span></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.'</p><p>" '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">#<span>radiological</span></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">#<span>NuclearPower</span></a> and cause other nations to reject U.S. <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/nuclear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nuclear</span></a> technology for decades to come.'</p><p>"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.</p><p>"<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AllisonMacfarlane" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AllisonMacfarlane</span></a>, who was nominated to head the NRC during the Obama administration, called the move 'the end of independence of the agency.'</p><p>" 'If you aren't independent of political and industry influence, then you are at risk of an accident,' Macfarlane warned.</p><p>"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">#<span>FossilFuels</span></a> and nuclear power.</p><p>"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">#<span>Microsoft</span></a>, while <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Google</span></a> parent company <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Alphabet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Alphabet</span></a>, online retail giant <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Amazon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Amazon</span></a>, and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Facebook" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Facebook</span></a> owner <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Meta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Meta</span></a> are among the competitors also investing in nuclear energy.</p><p>" 'Do we really want to create more <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RadioactiveWaste" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RadioactiveWaste</span></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">#<span>AI</span></a>?' <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/JohannaNeumann" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JohannaNeumann</span></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">#<span>RenewableEnergy</span></a>, asked in December.</p><p>" '<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BigTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BigTech</span></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">#<span>environment</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/health" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>health</span></a>,' Neumann added."</p><p><a href="https://www.rawstory.com/trump-nuclear-2672196220/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">rawstory.com/trump-nuclear-267</span><span class="invisible">2196220/</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RethinkNotRestart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RethinkNotRestart</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoNukes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoNukes</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoNukesForAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoNukesForAI</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BigTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BigTech</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnvironmentalRacism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EnvironmentalRacism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/UraniumMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UraniumMining</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearWaste" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearWaste</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TEPCOLies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TEPCOLies</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TrumpLies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TrumpLies</span></a> <br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HoltecLies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HoltecLies</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WaterIsLife</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearPowerPlants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearPowerPlants</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Datacenters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Datacenters</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AIPollution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AIPollution</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MicrosoftSucks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MicrosoftSucks</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TrumpSucks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TrumpSucks</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearIsNotCarbonFree" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearIsNotCarbonFree</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CancerRates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CancerRates</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Downwinders" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Downwinders</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearPowerCorruptionAndLies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearPowerCorruptionAndLies</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>Oh yeah. Fast-tracking a <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearPlant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearPlant</span></a> restart is such a good idea...NOT! </p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ThreeMileIsland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ThreeMileIsland</span></a> nuclear plant reboot fast-tracked to 2027</p><p>By Laila Kearney<br>June 25, 2025</p><p>Excerpt: "Despite the enthusiasm, nuclear power plant projects have historically been far over budget [leaving taxpayers on the hook] and behind schedule [which is why nuclear plant companies often fabricate and lie about details. They milk it for all it's worth!]</p><p>"No fully shut nuclear power plant has been restarted, but at least one other attempted restart - of the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PalisadesNuclearPlant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PalisadesNuclearPlant</span></a> in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Michigan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Michigan</span></a> - is under way. </p><p>"As the technology industry drives U.S. electricity demand to record highs, nuclear power has broadly seen a resurgence of interest after decades in decline. New York plans to build a new nuclear power plant, which would be one of the first to be constructed in a generation." </p><p><a href="https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/climate-energy/shut-three-mile-island-nuclear-plant-may-restart-2027-owner-says-2025-06-25/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">reuters.com/sustainability/cli</span><span class="invisible">mate-energy/shut-three-mile-island-nuclear-plant-may-restart-2027-owner-says-2025-06-25/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RethinkNotRestart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RethinkNotRestart</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoNukes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoNukes</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoNukesForAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoNukesForAI</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BigTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BigTech</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearWaste" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearWaste</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RethinkNotRestart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RethinkNotRestart</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearIsNotCarbonFree" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearIsNotCarbonFree</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Pennsylvania" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Pennsylvania</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CancerRates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CancerRates</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TEPCOLies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TEPCOLies</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HoltecLies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HoltecLies</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WaterIsLife</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearPowerPlants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearPowerPlants</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Datacenters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Datacenters</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AIPollution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AIPollution</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MicrosoftSucks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MicrosoftSucks</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>Plan would power new <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Microsoft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Microsoft</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DataCenter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DataCenter</span></a> with electricity from Pa.'s <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ThreeMileIsland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ThreeMileIsland</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/nuclear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nuclear</span></a> reactor </p><p>Constellation Energy is prepared to invest $1.6 billion to bring the plant's surviving reactor from the 1979 meltdown back online.</p><p>By Michael Tanenbaum, PhillyVoice Staff <br>September 20, 2024</p><p>Excerpt: "Tech companies favor nuclear power for AI</p><p>"In the race to develop artificial intelligence applications, tech companies are scrambling to build data centers, which require enormous amounts of electricity to operate. Such facilities are forecast to make up a growing share of the nation's electricity use in the years to come, prompting companies to look at tapping into existing infrastructure to help meet their needs.</p><p>"<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearPower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearPower</span></a> is being touted as a cost-effective solution for these data centers that also limits reliance on carbon-producing power sources. Building and directly connecting data centers to nuclear plants is known as co-location, a strategy that industry leaders favor because it's cheaper and faster to do. Proponents also claim it reduces stress on the transmission grids.</p><p>[...]</p><p>"When Constellation signaled interest in restarting Three Mile Island in July [2024], doubts surfaced about the technical feasibility of the project. Not only would it be the first of its kind, but it will have to be accomplished next to another reactor whose clean-up and decommissioning is expected to continue through 2078.</p><p>"The site also remains politically contentious due to the lasting memory of the 1979 accident, which displaced surrounding communities and left a legacy of fear over whether the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/radiation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>radiation</span></a> released contributed to increased <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/cancer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cancer</span></a> rates in the vicinity. About 2 million people were exposed to <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RadioactiveFallout" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RadioactiveFallout</span></a> as a result of the meltdown. </p><p>"Public health researchers from Temple, Penn State and the University of Pittsburgh published a report last year finding that long-term studies into the impact of the meltdown were limited by research flaws."</p><p>Read more:<br><a href="https://www.phillyvoice.com/ai-three-mile-island-microsoft-constellation-nuclear-reactor-data-centers/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">phillyvoice.com/ai-three-mile-</span><span class="invisible">island-microsoft-constellation-nuclear-reactor-data-centers/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WaterIsLife</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearPowerPlants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearPowerPlants</span></a> <br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoNukes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoNukes</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoNukesForAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoNukesForAI</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BigTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BigTech</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearWaste" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearWaste</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RethinkNotRestart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RethinkNotRestart</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearIsNotCarbonFree" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearIsNotCarbonFree</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Pennsylvania" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Pennsylvania</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CancerRates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CancerRates</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Jellyfish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Jellyfish</span></a> attack <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearPowerPlant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearPowerPlant</span></a>. Again.</p><p>By Susan D’Agostino | October 28, 2021</p><p>"<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Scotland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Scotland</span></a>’s only working nuclear power plant at <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Torness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Torness</span></a> shut down in an emergency procedure when jellyfish clogged the sea water-cooling intake pipes at the plant, according to the Scotland Herald this week. Without access to cool water, a nuclear power plant risks overheating. The intake pipes can also be damaged, which disrupts power generation. And ocean life that gets sucked into a power plant’s intake pipes risks death. </p><p>[...]</p><p>"The clash between gelatinous jellyfish and hulking nuclear power plants has a long history. These spineless, brainless, bloodless creatures shut down the Torness nuclear power plant in 2011 at a cost of approximately $1.5 million per day, according to one estimate. Swarms of these invertebrates have also been responsible for nuclear power plant shutdowns in Israel, Japan, the United States, the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Philippines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Philippines</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SouthKorea" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SouthKorea</span></a>, and Sweden.</p><p>"Humans have unwittingly nurtured the adversarial relationship between jellyfish and nuclear power plants. That is, human-induced <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateChange</span></a> has raised ocean water temperatures, setting conditions for larger-than-usual jellyfish populations. Further, the relatively warm water near nuclear power plant discharge outlets may attract jellyfish swarms, according to one study. Also, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/pollution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>pollution</span></a> has lowered <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/oxygen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>oxygen</span></a> levels in sea water, which jellyfish tolerate more than other marine animals, leading to their proliferation.</p><p>"Some look at jellyfish and see elegant ballerinas of the sea, while others view them as pests. Either way, they are nothing if not resilient. Jellyfish are 95 percent water, drift in topical waters and the Arctic Ocean, and thrive in the ocean’s bottom as well as on its surface. Nuclear power plant operators might take note: Older-than-dinosaur jellyfish are likely here to stay."</p><p>Full article:<br><a href="https://thebulletin.org/2021/10/jellyfish-attack-nuclear-power-plant-again/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">thebulletin.org/2021/10/jellyf</span><span class="invisible">ish-attack-nuclear-power-plant-again/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/OceansAreLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OceansAreLife</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearPowerPlants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearPowerPlants</span></a> <br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoNukes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoNukes</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoNukesForAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoNukesForAI</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RethinkNotRestart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RethinkNotRestart</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Jellyfish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Jellyfish</span></a> Keep Attacking <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearPowerPlants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearPowerPlants</span></a></p><p>By Gabriel Geiger<br>November 2, 2021</p><p>"Jellyfish are continuing to clog the cooling intake pipes of a nuclear power plant in Scotland, which has previously prompted a temporary shutdowns of the plant.</p><p>"The <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TornessNuclearPowerPlant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TornessNuclearPowerPlant</span></a> has reported concerns regarding jellyfish as far back as 2011, when it was forced to shut down for nearly a week—at an estimated cost of $1.5 million a day—because of the free-swimming marine animals.</p><p>"In a short comment to Motherboard, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EDFEnergy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EDFEnergy</span></a>, which runs the Torness plant, said that 'jellyfish blooms are an occasional issue for our power stations,' but also said that media reports claiming the plant had recently been taken offline because of jellyfish are 'inaccurate.' '[There were] no emergency procedures this or last week related to jellyfish or otherwise,' a spokesperson said. [Um, did they previously work for <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TEPCOLies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TEPCOLies</span></a>?]</p><p>" 'Like many other seaside power plants, the Torness plant uses seawater to prevent overheating. While there are measures in place to prevent aquatic life from entering the intake pipes, according to the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BulletinOfTheAtomicScientists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BulletinOfTheAtomicScientists</span></a>, they are no match for the sheer number of jellyfish that come during so-called 'jellyfish blooms.'</p><p>" 'Usually, screens prevent aquatic life and similar debris from being drawn into the power plants’ cooling system,' the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists wrote in a 2015 blog post. 'But when sufficiently large volumes of jellyfish or other aquatic life are pulled in, they block the screens, reducing the volume of water coming in and forcing the reactor to shut down.' </p><p>"While the case in Scotland has once again spotlighted concerns regarding the jellyfish and potential power plant shutdowns, these concerns are far from new. In 2008, a swarm of jellyfish shut down a nuclear power plant [<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DiabloCanyon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DiabloCanyon</span></a> -- which had another incident in 2024] in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/California" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>California</span></a>, and three years later the same occurred at a plant in Japan [<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Shimane" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Shimane</span></a>]. In 2017, jellyfish clogged a power plant in Israel [<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Hadera" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Hadera</span></a>]."</p><p>Source:<br><a href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/jellyfish-keep-attacking-nuclear-power-plants/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">vice.com/en/article/jellyfish-</span><span class="invisible">keep-attacking-nuclear-power-plants/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GlobalWarming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GlobalWarming</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WarmingOceans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WarmingOceans</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ChangingOceans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ChangingOceans</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/OceansAreLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OceansAreLife</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/OceanTemperatures" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OceanTemperatures</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateCrisis</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Overfishing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Overfishing</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoDeepSeaMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoDeepSeaMining</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoNewNukes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoNewNukes</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoNukes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoNukes</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoNukesForAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoNukesForAI</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Oskarshamn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Oskarshamn</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Torness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Torness</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RethinkNotRestart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RethinkNotRestart</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>Sites with <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/radioactive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>radioactive</span></a> material more vulnerable as <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateChange</span></a> increases <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/wildfire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>wildfire</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/flood" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>flood</span></a> risks</p><p> By TAMMY WEBBER<br>Updated 1:04 AM EDT, May 22, 2024</p><p>"As Texas wildfires burned toward the nation’s primary nuclear weapons facility, workers hurried to ensure nothing flammable was around buildings and storage areas.</p><p>"When the fires showed no sign of slowing, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Pantex" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Pantex</span></a> Plant officials urgently called on local contractors, who arrived within minutes with bulldozers to dig trenches and enlarge fire breaks for the sprawling complex where nuclear weapons are assembled and disassembled and dangerous plutonium pits — hollow spheres that trigger nuclear warheads and bombs — are stored.</p><p>" 'The winds can pick up really (quickly) here and can move really fast,' said Jason Armstrong, the federal field office manager at Pantex, outside Amarillo, who was awake 40 hours straight monitoring the risks. Workers were sent home and the plant shut down when smoke began blanketing the site.</p><p>"Those fires in February — including the largest in Texas history — didn’t reach Pantex, though flames came within 3 miles (5 kilometers). And Armstrong says it’s highly unlikely that plutonium pits, stored in fire-resistant drums and shelters, would have been affected by wildfire.</p><p>"But the size and speed of the grassland fires, and Pantex’s urgent response, underscore how much is at stake as climate change stokes extreme heat and drought, longer fire seasons with larger, more intense blazes and supercharged rainstorms that can lead to catastrophic flooding. The Texas fire season often starts in February, but farther west it has yet to ramp up, and is usually worst in summer and fall."</p><p><a href="https://apnews.com/article/wildfire-flood-climate-change-nuclear-radioactive-sites-72bf711fe931a051709e44199c656267" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">apnews.com/article/wildfire-fl</span><span class="invisible">ood-climate-change-nuclear-radioactive-sites-72bf711fe931a051709e44199c656267</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoNukes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoNukes</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoWar</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoNuclearWeapons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoNuclearWeapons</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoNukesForAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoNukesForAI</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RethinkNotRestart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RethinkNotRestart</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearPlants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearPlants</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearPowerPlants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearPowerPlants</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateCrisis</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Radiation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Radiation</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>CA <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/wildfires" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>wildfires</span></a>: a warning to <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NRC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NRC</span></a> on <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateChange</span></a></p><p>January 16, 2025 </p><p>"The NRC’s actions to address the risks from natural hazards do not fully consider potential climate change effects on severe nuclear accident risks. 'For example, NRC primarily uses historical data in its licensing and oversight processes rather than climate projections data,' the GAO report said.</p><p>"Beyond Nuclear has uncovered similar findings during our challenges to the NRC’s extreme relicensing process for extending reactor operating licenses, now out to the extreme of 60 to 80 years and talk of 100 years. We found that the agency’s staff believes and stubbornly insists that an <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/environmental" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>environmental</span></a> review for climate change impacts (<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SeaLevelRise" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SeaLevelRise</span></a>, increasingly severe <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/hurricanes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>hurricanes</span></a>, extreme <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/flooding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>flooding</span></a>, etc.) on reactor safety and reliability is 'out of scope' for the license extensions hearing process.</p><p>"The GAO report points out to the NRC that wildfires, specifically, can dangerously impact US nuclear power stations operations and public safety with potential consequences that extend far beyond the initiating natural disaster. These consequences can include loss of life, large scale and indefinite population dislocation and uninsurable economic damage from the radiological<br>consequences:</p><p>" 'Wildfire. According to the NCA (National Climate Assessment), increased heat and drought contribute to increases in wildfire frequency, and climate change has contributed to unprecedented wildfire events in the Southwest. The NCA projects increased heatwaves, drought risk, and more frequent and larger wildfires. Wildfires pose several risks to nuclear power plants, including increasing the potential for onsite fires that could damage plant infrastructure, damaging transmission lines that deliver electricity to plants, and causing a loss of power that could require plants to shut down. Wildfires and the smoke they produce could also hinder or prevent nuclear power plant personnel and supplies from getting to a plant.'</p><p>"Loss of offsite electrical power (<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LOOP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LOOP</span></a>) to nuclear power stations is a leading contributor to increasing the risk of a severe nuclear power accident. The availability of alternating current (AC) power is essential for safe operation and accident recovery at commercial nuclear power plants. Offsite fires destroying electrical power transmission lines to commercial reactors therefore increase the probability and severity of nuclear accidents.</p><p>"For US nuclear power plants, 100% of the electrical power supply to all reactor safety systems is initially provided through the offsite power grid. If the offsite electrical grid is disturbed or destroyed, the reactors are designed to automatically shut down or 'SCRAM'. Onsite emergency backup power generators are then expected to automatically or manually start up to provide power to designated high priority reactor safety systems needed to safely shut the reactors down and provide continuous reactor cooling, pressure monitoring, but to a diminished number of the reactors’ credited safety systems. Reliable offsite power is therefore a key factor to minimizing the probability of severe nuclear accidents.</p><p>"The GAO identifies a number of US nuclear power plant sites that are vulnerable to the possible outbreak of wildfires where they are located. 'According to our analysis of U.S. Forest Service and NRC data, about 20 percent of nuclear power plants (16 of 75) are located in areas with a high or very high potential for wildfire,' the GAO report states. 'More specifically, more than<br>one-third of nuclear power plants in the South (nine of 25) and West (three of eight) are located in areas with a high or very high potential for wildfire.' The GAO goes on to identify 'Of the 16 plants with high or very high potential for wildfire, 12 are operating and four are shutdown.'</p><p>"To analyze exposure to the wildfire hazard potential, the GAO used 2023 data from the U.S. Forest Service’s Wildfire Hazard Potential Map. 'High/very high' refers to plants in areas with high or very high wildfire hazard potential. Those <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearPower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearPower</span></a> stations described by GAO as 'high / very high' exposure to wildfires and their locations are excerpted from GAO Appendix III: Nuclear Power Plant Exposure to Selected Natural Hazards.</p><p>Table 1: Potential High Exposure to “Wildfires” at Operating Nuclear Power Plants</p><p>–AZ / <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SAFER" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SAFER</span></a>, one of two mobile nuclear emergency equipment supply units in the nation, “HIGH / VERY HIGH”<br>–CA / <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DiabloCanyon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DiabloCanyon</span></a> Units 1 & 2 nuclear power station, “HIGH / VERY HIGH”<br>–FL / <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TurkeyPoint" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TurkeyPoint</span></a> Units 3 & 4 nuclear power station, “HIGH / VERY HIGH”<br>–GA / <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EdwinI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EdwinI</span></a>. Hatch Units 1 & 2 nuclear power station, “HIGH / VERY HIGH”<br>–GA / $Vogtle Units Units 1, 2, 3 & 4, nuclear power station, “HIGH / VERY HIGH”<br>–NC / <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BrunswickNPP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BrunswickNPP</span></a> Units 1 & 2 nuclear power station, “HIGH / VERY HIGH”<br>–NC / <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/McGuire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>McGuire</span></a> Units 1 & 2 nuclear power station, “HIGH / VERY HIGH”<br>–NC / <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ShearonHarris" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ShearonHarris</span></a> Units 1 & 2 nuclear power station, “HIGH /VERY HIGH”<br>–NB / <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Cooper" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Cooper</span></a> nuclear power station, “HIGH / VERY HIGH”<br>–SC / <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Catawba" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Catawba</span></a> Units 1 & 2 nuclear power station, “HIGH / VERY HIGH”<br>–SC / <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HBRobinson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HBRobinson</span></a> Units 1 & 2 nuclear power station, “HIGH / VERY HIGH”<br>–WA / <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ColumbiaNuclearPower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ColumbiaNuclearPower</span></a> station, “HIGH / VERY HIGH”</p><p>Table 2: Potential High Exposure to “Wildfires” at Shutdown Nuclear Power Plants</p><p>–CA / <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SanOnofre" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SanOnofre</span></a> Units 1 & 2, “HIGH / VERY HIGH”</p><p>–FL / <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CrystalRiver" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CrystalRiver</span></a>, “HIGH / VERY HIGH”</p><p>–NJ / <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/OysterCreek" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OysterCreek</span></a>, “HIGH / VERY HIGH”</p><p>–NY / <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndianPoint" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IndianPoint</span></a> Units 1, 2 & 3, “HIGH / VERY HIGH”</p><p>"Wildfires can transport radioactive contamination from nuclear facilities</p><p>"A historical review of wildfires that occur around nuclear facilities (research, military and commercial power) identifies that these events are also a very effective transport mechanism of radioactivity previously generated at these sites and subsequently released into the environment by accident, spills and leaks, and careless dumping. The radioactivity is resuspended by wildfires that occur years, even decades later. The fires carry the radioactivity on smoke particles downwind, thus expanding the zone of contamination further and further with each succeeding fire. The dispersed radionuclides can have very long half-lives meaning they remain biologically hazardous in the environment for decades, centuries and longer."</p><p>cc: <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.scot/@Cyclist" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>Cyclist</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fedi.stfn.pl/@stfn" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>stfn</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://greennuclear.online/@collectifission" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>collectifission</span></a></span> </p><p>Read more:<br><a href="https://beyondnuclear.org/ca-wildfires-are-a-warning-to-nrc-on-climate-change/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">beyondnuclear.org/ca-wildfires</span><span class="invisible">-are-a-warning-to-nrc-on-climate-change/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoNukes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoNukes</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoNukesForAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoNukesForAI</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RethinkNotRestart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RethinkNotRestart</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearPlants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearPlants</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearPowerPlants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearPowerPlants</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateCrisis</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Radiation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Radiation</span></a></p>
The Times Of Central Asia | Eurasian Publication & News Online<p><strong>Nuclear Energy Project in Uzbekistan Enters Construction Phase</strong></p>
<p><a href="https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://timesca.com/nuclear-energy-project-in-uzbekistan-enters-construction-phase/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">fed.brid.gy/r/https://timesca.</span><span class="invisible">com/nuclear-energy-project-in-uzbekistan-enters-construction-phase/</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>Four days ago: <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Spain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Spain</span></a> Signals Openness to Keeping <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearPowerPlants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearPowerPlants</span></a> Open</p><p>By Daniel Basteiro and Thomas Gualtieri<br>April 24, 2025</p><p>"Spain is signaling for the first time that it’s open to reconsidering the shutdown of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearPlants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearPlants</span></a> over the next decade amid a global revival of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AtomicEnergy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AtomicEnergy</span></a>.<br>While that’s not the plan agreed with nuclear plant operators, and it would be up to them to present concrete proposals, extensions are not ruled out, Environmental Transition Minister Sara Aagesen said in an interview.</p><p>" 'Nuclear energy will be present in our mix at least until 2035' but could go beyond that if companies propose extensions, which hasn’t happened yet, she said prior to an International Energy Agency summit on the future of energy security. 'We’re not considering anything because there is no specific proposal on the table.' "</p><p>Today [April 28th] "Spain's nuclear power plants automatically stopped, but diesel generators were activated to keep them in 'safe condition', officials said."</p><p>Sources:<br><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-04-24/spain-signals-openness-to-nuclear-phaseout-talks-with-utilities" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">bloomberg.com/news/articles/20</span><span class="invisible">25-04-24/spain-signals-openness-to-nuclear-phaseout-talks-with-utilities</span></a></p><p>Archived version:<br><a href="https://archive.ph/cJiGM" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">archive.ph/cJiGM</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/panic-grips-blackout-stricken-spain/ar-AA1DLXlW?ocid=winp2fptaskbarent&cvid=a8f926dcb8024e53b37a61a68e5d670f&ei=6" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">msn.com/en-us/news/world/panic</span><span class="invisible">-grips-blackout-stricken-spain/ar-AA1DLXlW?ocid=winp2fptaskbarent&cvid=a8f926dcb8024e53b37a61a68e5d670f&ei=6</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RethinkNotRestart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RethinkNotRestart</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RenewablesNow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RenewablesNow</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Hydropower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Hydropower</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Solar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Solar</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Geothermal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Geothermal</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoNukesForAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoNukesForAI</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoNukes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoNukes</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ExtremeHeat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ExtremeHeat</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ExtremeFlooding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ExtremeFlooding</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearMeltdowns" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearMeltdowns</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateCrisis</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateChange</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Blackout" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Blackout</span></a></p>
Yonhap Infomax News<p>Hyundai E&C secures contracts for nuclear power plant feasibility studies in Finland and Slovenia, marking significant progress in European market expansion<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/YonhapInfomax" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>YonhapInfomax</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HyundaiEngineeringConstruction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HyundaiEngineeringConstruction</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NuclearPowerPlants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearPowerPlants</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TechnicalFeasibilityStudy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TechnicalFeasibilityStudy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Finland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Finland</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Slovenia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Slovenia</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Economics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Economics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FinancialMarkets" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FinancialMarkets</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Banking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Banking</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Securities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Securities</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Bonds" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Bonds</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/StockMarket" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StockMarket</span></a> <br><a href="https://en.infomaxai.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=58527" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.infomaxai.com/news/articleV</span><span class="invisible">iew.html?idxno=58527</span></a></p>
Aurianne Or<p>40 years, a nuclear risk under control?: <a href="https://www.aurianneor.org/40-years-a-nuclear-risk-under-control/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">aurianneor.org/40-years-a-nucl</span><span class="invisible">ear-risk-under-control/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/accident" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>accident</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/aurianneor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>aurianneor</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/EDF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EDF</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/EmmanuelMacron" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EmmanuelMacron</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/EricBesson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EricBesson</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/frenchnuclearpowerplants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>frenchnuclearpowerplants</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fukushima" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fukushima</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fukushimadaiichi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fukushimadaiichi</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/hanfordsite" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>hanfordsite</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Japan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Japan</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/loinome" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>loinome</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Macron" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Macron</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NicolasSarkozy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NicolasSarkozy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/nuclear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nuclear</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/nuclearfallout" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nuclearfallout</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/nuclearmeltdown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nuclearmeltdown</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/nuclearpower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nuclearpower</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/nuclearpowerplants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nuclearpowerplants</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/nuclearreactors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nuclearreactors</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/nuclearwaste" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nuclearwaste</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ocde" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ocde</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/presentation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>presentation</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/president" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>president</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/radioactive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>radioactive</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>[Video] <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AskomiwKsanaqak" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AskomiwKsanaqak</span></a> (Forever Dangerous) – <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndigenousNations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IndigenousNations</span></a> Resist <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearColonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearColonialism</span></a></p><p>Nov 20, 2024 </p><p>"Indigenous nations and communities continue to express their opposition to nuclear energy and radioactive waste. The Passamaquoddy Recognition Group (PRGI) and the CEDAR project at St. Thomas University in New Brunswick, Canada, co-produced a report and this video to amplify these Indigenous voices. Featuring Chief <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HughAkagi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HughAkagi</span></a>, Chief <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RonTremblay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RonTremblay</span></a> and Councillor <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PeytonPitawanakwat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PeytonPitawanakwat</span></a>."</p><p>Watch: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9i7XtIGFqyY" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=9i7XtIGFqy</span><span class="invisible">Y</span></a> </p><p>The report is available here: <a href="https://cedar-project.org/indigenous" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">cedar-project.org/indigenous</span><span class="invisible"></span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearWaste" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearWaste</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearWasteStorage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearWasteStorage</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoNukes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoNukes</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WaterIsLife</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LandIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LandIsLife</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WolastoqGrandCouncil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WolastoqGrandCouncil</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearPowerPlants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearPowerPlants</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoNukes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoNukes</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PeskotomuhkatiNation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PeskotomuhkatiNation</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PassamaquoddyNation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PassamaquoddyNation</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CEDARProject" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CEDARProject</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Radioactivity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Radioactivity</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Pollution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Pollution</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RadioactivePollutionKills" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RadioactivePollutionKills</span></a> <br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndigenousNationsResistNuclearColonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IndigenousNationsResistNuclearColonialism</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>Listening to Indigenous views</p><p>“We believe that the Earth is our Mother, and that she has been violated, she has been hurt, she has been raped, she has been damaged for far, far too long,” - Chief Ron Tremblay, Wolastoq Grand Council.</p><p>Posted on December 1, 2024 by <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BeyondNuclearInternational" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BeyondNuclearInternational</span></a></p><p>"The study found that overall, Indigenous nations and communities do not support the production of more nuclear waste or the transport and storage of nuclear waste on their homelands. They have made their opposition known through dozens of public statements and more than 100 submissions to the regulator, the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission.</p><p>"At the same time, the federal government positions nuclear energy as a strategic asset to Canada now and into the future. The government recently launched a policy to get nuclear projects approved more quickly, with fewer regulations. The government’s position has created an obvious conflict with Indigenous rights-holders.</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Radioactivity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Radioactivity</span></a> cannot be turned off – that’s what makes <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearWaste" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearWaste</span></a> so dangerous. Indigenous opposition to nuclear waste is rooted in values that respect the Earth and the need to keep life safe for generations into the future. The radioactivity from high-level waste can take millennia to decay and if exposed, can damage living tissue in a range of ways and alter gene structure."</p><p>Read more:<br><a href="https://beyondnuclearinternational.org/2024/12/01/listening-to-indigenous-views/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">beyondnuclearinternational.org</span><span class="invisible">/2024/12/01/listening-to-indigenous-views/</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearWasteStorage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearWasteStorage</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearColonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearColonialism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearPowerPlants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearPowerPlants</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoNukes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoNukes</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PeskotomuhkatiNation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PeskotomuhkatiNation</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PassamaquoddyNation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PassamaquoddyNation</span></a> <br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndigenousNationsResistNuclearColonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IndigenousNationsResistNuclearColonialism</span></a></p>
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