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August 09, 2018NH #372: Hiroshima/Nagasaki Commemoration - Daniel Ellsberg, Hibakusha Setsuko Thurlow, Marylia Kelley of Tri-Valley CARES
Hiroshima watch frozen at the exact time the atomic bomb landed
on August 6, 1945.
Hiroshima/Nagasaki Commemoration:
Marylia Kelley, executive director of Tri-Valley CARES, explains the group's special focus on the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory and its annual August 6 March for Nuclear Abolition and Global Survival.
Daniel Ellsberg, best known for releasing the Pentagon Papers and author of the acclaimed memoir The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner, speaks at the March for Nuclear Abolition and Global Survival, where he draws parallels between Climate Change, Hiroshima, and the Titanic to the crowd protesting at the gates of the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory.
Daniel Ellsberg addressing the crowd outside the gates of the Lawrence Livermore Labs.
For video of the entire rally, including Ellsberg's speech, CLICK HERE.
Video provided courtesy Genta Yoshikawa for No Nukes Action.
Setsuko Thurlow survived the atomic blast at Hiroshima, and has lived to work with ICAN – the International Campaign for the Abolition of Nuclear Weapons, on the campaign to pass the United Nations Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. Here are her comments upon passage of this historic treaty on July 7, 2017. Audio is taken from the short animation, If You Love This Planet by Amber Cooper-Davis.
Numnutz of the Week (for Outstanding Nuclear Boneheadedness):
Japanese President Shinzo Abe-baby sees no reason for Japan to sign the United Nations Treaty on the Abolition of Nuclear Weapons. Really? Really???
Action/Info Links:
7 Things You Should Know about Hiroshima and Nagasaki by ICAN - the Nobel Peace Prize-winning organization that promoted the United Nations Treaty on the Abolition of Nuclear Weapons. Be sure to watch the short video by the International Red Cross on why first responders to a nuclear disaster will not be able to help.
Oyster Creek Decommissioning Plan Needs Close Scrutiny by Paul Gunter of Beyond Nuclear.
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August 08, 2018 Hiroshima/Nagasaki Commemoration - 73 Years Ago
Commmoration of the 73rd anniversary of the dropping of the atom bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Hear from Pentagon Papers' Daniel Ellsberg, #Hiroshima survivor and #Nuclear weapons ban activist for ICAN, Setsuko Thurlow, and Marylia Kelley of Tri-Valley CARES, which produced the annual protest and die-in at the gates of the Lawrence Livermor Labs, where new nuclear technology is developed. #NuclearHotseat 372, hosted by Libbe HaLevy. https://bit.ly/2MvB1le
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August 02, 2018NH #371: Nuclear Trainwreck: Radwaste Transport Dangers Exposed! - Donna Gilmore of San Onofre Safety
Nuclear Trainwreck? - San Onofre high level radioactive waste
lurks just above and behind Pacific Ocean high tide mark -
and proposed rail transport is a "mobile Chernobyl" disaster just waiting to happen.
This Week's Featured Interview:
"Nuclear trainwreck" - Let's hope that's a metaphor, not a future reality! Donna Gilmore is founder and head of San Onofre Safety, a public resource for factual information about the serious safety issues with southern California's San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station and the tons of highly radioactive nuclear waste stored smack up against the Pacific Ocean. Her findings on official assumptions about transport of nuclear waste from San Onofre and other nuclear reactors, especially via rail, are truly outrageous. Come listen and get outraged.
Numnutz of the Week (for Outstanding Nuclear Boneheadedness):
When the Department of Energy (DOE) has community demands for radiation testing of plutonium contamination at Rocky Flats near Boulder, Colorado, DOE takes $400K of taxpayer money to hire a PR firm?!? What - if you did your job in the first place, you wouldn't have to hire a spin doctor to make you look better than you are!
ACTION LINKS:
Harvey Wasserman's Solartopia radio show w/Karl Grossman, Joe Mangano,Susan Shapiro.
Does Living Near a Nuclear Plant Give Children Cancer? - Great, definitive article by Cindy Folkers, Radiation and Health Specialist for Beyond Nuclear, drawing upon 60 published studies.
Trump Administration Neuters Nuclear Safety Board - Excellent ProPublica article.
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July 25, 2018NH #370: Congress Meets Hard Nuclear Decommissioning Truths - SPECIAL: DC Briefing, Education/Lobbying w/Kevin Kamps, Dave Kraft, Manna Jo Greene
Congress briefing pros Kevin Kamps (l) of Beyond Nuclear and
Ian Zabarte of the Western Shoshone tribe
let DC insiders know a genuine nuclear truth.
Photo by Galen Tromble
SPECIAL REPORT:
Two Days with Congress: DC Briefing, Education/Lobbying on Decommissioning Nuclear Power Plants
This Week's Featured Interviews:
Kevin Kamps is the Nuclear Waste Specialist for Beyond Nuclear, and when it comes to problems with existing radioactive waste and what’s being done – or not done – with it, there’s not much that Kevin doesn’t know.
Dave Kraft is Executive Director of Nuclear Energy Information Service, or NEIS, based in Chicago. Dave gives us a picture of what nuclear reactor shutdown and subsequent decommissioning means through the experience of just one of the communities that once welcomed the nuclear industry as the answer to their economic prayers.
Manna Jo Greene, executive director of Hudson River Sloop Clearwater, has been involved in decades worth of battles regarding New York’s Indian Point nuclear reactors, located only 30 miles as the crow flies from midtown Manhattan. Manna Jo gets into the impact of Indian Point on the ecology of the Hudson River, the ongoing legal battles, and what needs to be done to protect the people of New York from its potential use as a terrorist target.
LINK to Briefing Presser:
Decommissioning Nuclear Power Plants:
What Congress, Federal Agencies and Communities Need to Know
Great, clear, concise overview of the issues. Excellent educational tool to be used by ANY citizens group that lives near a nuclear reactor that is or will be going through decommissioning.
LINKS to Background Materials and Powerpoint Slides:
www.eesi.org/briefings/view/071618nuclear
Download Robert Alvarez's Slides
Download Kevin Kamps's Slides
Download Geoffrey Fettus's Slides
www.eesi.org/files/071618_Nuclear_Plant_Decommissioning_Briefing_Packet.zip
Complete briefing packet, enrichment materials
VIDEO of the Congressional Briefing Livestream:

Many thanks to the organizations active in the coalition that put together this event together: Beyond Nuclear, Clean Water Action New Jersey, Ecological Options Network, Hudson River Sloop Clearwater, Indian Point Safe Energy Coalition (IPSEC), Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), Nuclear Energy Information Service (NEIS), Nuclear Information and Resource Service (NIRS), Riverkeeper, Safe Energy Rights Group, Unity for Clean Energy (U4CE), Western Shoshone Nation, and many others. With thanks for their invaluable support to EEIS - Environmental and Energy Study Institute and media representative Steve Kent.
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July 25, 2018 SPECIAL: Congress Meets Hard Nuclear Decommissioning Truths
SPECIAL REPORT: Two Days with Congress: DC Briefing, Education/Lobbying on Decommissioning Nuclear Power Plants.
INTERVIEWS:
Kevin Kamps is the Nuclear Waste Specialist for Beyond Nuclear, and when it comes to problems with existing radioactive waste and what’s being done – or not done – with it, there’s not much that Kevin doesn’t know.
Dave Kraft is Executive Director of Nuclear Energy Information Service, or NEIS, based in Chicago. Dave gives us a picture of what nuclear reactor shutdown and subsequent decommissioning means through the experience of just one of the communities that once welcomed the nuclear industry as the answer to their economic prayers.
Manna Jo Green, executive director of Hudson River Sloop Clearwater, has been involved in decades worth of battles regarding New York’s Indian Point nuclear reactors, located only 30 miles as the crow flies from midtown Manhattan. Manna Jo gets into the impact of Indian Point on the ecology of the Hudson River, the ongoing legal battles, and what needs to be done to protect the people of New York from its potential use as a terrorist target.
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July 25, 2018 SPECIAL: Congress Meets Hard Nuclear Decommissioning Truths
SPECIAL REPORT: Two Days with Congress: DC Briefing, Education/Lobbying on Decommissioning Nuclear Power Plants.
INTERVIEWS:
Kevin Kamps is the Nuclear Waste Specialist for Beyond Nuclear, and when it comes to problems with existing radioactive waste and what’s being done – or not done – with it, there’s not much that Kevin doesn’t know.
Dave Kraft is Executive Director of Nuclear Energy Information Service, or NEIS, based in Chicago. Dave gives us a picture of what nuclear reactor shutdown and subsequent decommissioning means through the experience of just one of the communities that once welcomed the nuclear industry as the answer to their economic prayers.
Manna Jo Green, executive director of Hudson River Sloop Clearwater, has been involved in decades worth of battles regarding New York’s Indian Point nuclear reactors, located only 30 miles as the crow flies from midtown Manhattan. Manna Jo gets into the impact of Indian Point on the ecology of the Hudson River, the ongoing legal battles, and what needs to be done to protect the people of New York from its potential use as a terrorist target.
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July 25, 2018 SPECIAL: Congress Meets Hard Nuclear Decommissioning Truths
SPECIAL REPORT: Two Days with Congress: DC Briefing, Education/Lobbying on Decommissioning Nuclear Power Plants.
INTERVIEWS:
Kevin Kamps is the Nuclear Waste Specialist for Beyond Nuclear, and when it comes to problems with existing radioactive waste and what’s being done – or not done – with it, there’s not much that Kevin doesn’t know.
Dave Kraft is Executive Director of Nuclear Energy Information Service, or NEIS, based in Chicago. Dave gives us a picture of what nuclear reactor shutdown and subsequent decommissioning means through the experience of just one of the communities that once welcomed the nuclear industry as the answer to their economic prayers.
Manna Jo Green, executive director of Hudson River Sloop Clearwater, has been involved in decades worth of battles regarding New York’s Indian Point nuclear reactors, located only 30 miles as the crow flies from midtown Manhattan. Manna Jo gets into the impact of Indian Point on the ecology of the Hudson River, the ongoing legal battles, and what needs to be done to protect the people of New York from its potential use as a terrorist target.
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July 24, 2018 SPECIAL: Congress Meets Hard Nuclear Decommissioning Truths
SPECIAL REPORT: Two Days with Congress: DC Briefing, Education/Lobbying on Decommissioning Nuclear Power Plants.
INTERVIEWS:
Kevin Kamps is the Nuclear Waste Specialist for Beyond Nuclear, and when it comes to problems with existing radioactive waste and what’s being done – or not done – with it, there’s not much that Kevin doesn’t know.
Dave Kraft is Executive Director of Nuclear Energy Information Service, or NEIS, based in Chicago. Dave gives us a picture of what nuclear reactor shutdown and subsequent decommissioning means through the experience of just one of the communities that once welcomed the nuclear industry as the answer to their economic prayers.
Manna Jo Green, executive director of Hudson River Sloop Clearwater, has been involved in decades worth of battles regarding New York’s Indian Point nuclear reactors, located only 30 miles as the crow flies from midtown Manhattan. Manna Jo gets into the impact of Indian Point on the ecology of the Hudson River, the ongoing legal battles, and what needs to be done to protect the people of New York from its potential use as a terrorist target.
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July 24, 2018 SPECIAL: Congress Meets Hard Nuclear Decommissioning Truths
SPECIAL REPORT: Two Days with Congress: DC Briefing, Education/Lobbying on Decommissioning Nuclear Power Plants.
INTERVIEWS:
Kevin Kamps is the Nuclear Waste Specialist for Beyond Nuclear, and when it comes to problems with existing radioactive waste and what’s being done – or not done – with it, there’s not much that Kevin doesn’t know.
Dave Kraft is Executive Director of Nuclear Energy Information Service, or NEIS, based in Chicago. Dave gives us a picture of what nuclear reactor shutdown and subsequent decommissioning means through the experience of just one of the communities that once welcomed the nuclear industry as the answer to their economic prayers.
Manna Jo Green, executive director of Hudson River Sloop Clearwater, has been involved in decades worth of battles regarding New York’s Indian Point nuclear reactors, located only 30 miles as the crow flies from midtown Manhattan. Manna Jo gets into the impact of Indian Point on the ecology of the Hudson River, the ongoing legal battles, and what needs to be done to protect the people of New York from its potential use as a terrorist target.
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July 19, 2018NH #369: Nuclear Power Plays: Colorado "Wildlife Refuge" at Plutonium-Contaminated Superfund Site, Gene Stone: San Onofre Real-Time Radiation Monitoring Possible!
Nuclear Power Play: Credentialed journalist Sam Husseini (The Nation)
holding so-called "malicious item"
that got him forcibly ejected from Putin/Trump Helsinki press conference
This Week's Featured Interviews:
Gene Stone, founder of Residents Organized for a Safe Environment, talks about a breakthrough in creating a real-time, inexpensive, publicly accessible radiation monitoring system for the "spent" fuel canisters at San Onofre... and everywhere else.
Alesya Casse of Candelas Glows, a group dealing with Rocky Flats in Arvada, Colorado, explains how local developers and the government are trying to "sell" the public on the plutonium-contaminated site re-imagined as a wildlife refuge. Don't buy a home in Arvada without listening to this report!
Numnutz of the Week (for Outstanding Nuclear Boneheadedness):
Entergy, the slumlords of the nuclear industry, crying crocodile tears and claiming poverty over having to maintain a 10-mile emergency zone around the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station. And what's this -- they consider emergency planning for the eight million people in the area "unnecessary?" Where do they live -- the moon?
Action Links:
SIGN THE PETITION! Gene Stone of Residents Organized for a Safe Environment asking for signatures on a petition to support for Real-Time Radiation Monitoring at San Onofre Nuke Dump
Nuclear Power in Africa? by Ann Garrison
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