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Commentary: Exelon’s nuclear hostage crisis tactics must end　via Chicago Tribune

Posted on 2020/08/28 by nfield

By DAVID KRAFT “Nuclear Hostage Crisis: Day 2,363” Yes, that’s right. It was March 9, 2014, when Exelon announced that it would close its nuclear plants if the Illinois legislature, under House Speaker Michael Madigan’s watchful eye, did not bail them … Continue reading →

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A call for antiracist action and accountability in the US nuclear community via The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists

Posted on 2020/08/24 by nfield

By Katlyn M. Turner, Lauren J. Borja, Denia Djokić, Madicken Munk, Aditi Verma, August 24, 2020 Authors’ note: This piece was reviewed and edited by Professor Gabrielle Hecht (Stanford University), Professor Susan Silbey (MIT), and several contributors who prefer to remain anonymous, to whom the authors are deeply grateful. … Continue reading →

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Daughters of the bomb: my reckoning with Hiroshima, 75 years later via The Guardian

Posted on 2020/08/05 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Erika Hayasaki for Narratively On the 75th anniversary of the A-bomb, a Japanese American writer speaks to one of the last living survivors – and traces connections from Malcolm X to the fight to end nuclear war I keep a … Continue reading →

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Invisible Fallout via Beyond Nuclear International

Posted on 2020/06/22 by nfield

New film helps us find it, measure it and understand it By Linda Pentz Gunter There are many ways to teach people about radiation. But if you want to make that lesson accessible, compelling and even moving, then this film … Continue reading →

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Covid-19 strains French nuclear model via Petroleum Economist

Posted on 2020/05/27 by nfield

Workplace restrictions could hasten the decline of France’s fleet of baseload generators Nowhere on earth embraced nuclear power as enthusiastically as France. In 2019, 70pc of its power output was fuelled by uranium rather than gas, coal or renewable sources. … Continue reading →

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Outrage in Tahiti over French nuclear law moves via RNZ

Posted on 2020/05/18 by nfield

There has been an outcry in French Polynesia over moves by the French National Assembly to slip a clause about compensation over nuclear weapons testing into Covid-19 legislation. […] The French government wants to re-introduce the concept of neglible risk … Continue reading →

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Fukushima: How the ocean became a dumping ground for radioactive waste via DW

Posted on 2020/04/10 by nfield

The nuclear disaster at Fukushima sent an unprecedented amount of radiation into the Pacific. But, before then, atomic bomb tests and radioactive waste were contaminating the sea — the effects are still being felt today. Almost 1.2 million liters (320,000 … Continue reading →

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Nuclear plant lifetime extension: A creeping catastrophe via Bellona

Posted on 2020/03/30 by yukimiyamotodepaul

 by Charles Digges Any discussion of nuclear disasters brings events like Chernobyl and Fukushima to mind. But the civilian nuclear industry could be facing a quieter nuclear failure. Simply put, the world’s nuclear reactors are getting dangerously old. […] The majority … Continue reading →

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The Fascinating Story of How South Africa Got—and Then Gave up—Its Own Nuclear Bomb via The National Interest

Posted on 2020/02/12 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Wait, what? by Robert Farley Key Point: The apartheid government of South Africa built these weapons for their own defense. However, the collapse of their regime caused them to get rid of the weapons since they didn’t want the new democratic and black government … Continue reading →

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An Appalling Act of Industrial Vandalism’: Japanese Officials Do PR for Plan to Dump Fukushima Water Into Ocean via Common Dreams

Posted on 2020/02/03 by nfield

byAndrea Germanos, staff writer As cleanup of the 2011 Fukushima disaster continues, the Japanese government made its case to embassy officials from 23 countries Monday that dumping contaminated water from the nuclear power plant into the ocean is the best … Continue reading →

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