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22 Megawatt wind turbines! A wind farm with just 50 of these could produce as much power as a large nuclear plant. This potential has always been there, and if we hadn’t wasted 50 years on nukes, we could already be carbon free. .
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Given that nuclear power plants make electricity that only provides a moment of benefit, while the radioactive waste they create lasts forever, it’s more accurate to refer to them as “nuclear waste factories.” Here’s another multi-billion $ clean up in West Valley, NY.
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RADIATION SPILL The fundamental design flaw of spent fuel pools on upper floors was demonstrated in the Fukushima disaster. Spent fuel pools contain more fuel and radiation than reactor cores. If they meltdown, it can be 100x worse. Japan learned nothing.
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Since the start of the year, Germany has installed wind and solar equivalent to 7 nuclear plants.
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Back in the 1970s, people threw off decades of government propaganda, did their own research and discovered nuclear power was a deadly con job. Unfortunately, the propaganda has increased exponentially, but the truth is still the same.
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Nuclear power advocates are always claiming nuclear power is inexpensive, but it looks like wind and solar are cheaper…
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More proof that nuclear, the MOST expensive form of energy, is finally losing the battle with renewables despite the millions in bribes paid to corrupt politicians to promote it.
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Pro-nukers always brag about their small footprint, but in the case of Sizewell C, that “small” foot is stomping on some of the most valuable natural areas and wetlands in the UK.
Heart-breaking- happening now! EDF clearing woodland/hedgerows in
@SuffolkAONB
& Sizewell Marshes SSSI- funded by UK taxpayer courtesy of UK govt. Yet Sizewell C may never be built as insufficient funding, still no site licence or guaranteed mains water supply!
#SayNo2SizewellC
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Sometimes I get discouraged by the sheer number of pro-nuclear trolls and the sheer volume of corporate and government nuclear propaganda, then I look at the numbers and remember nukes are declining while renewables are surging.
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Nice video debunking the whole Small Modular Nuclear Reactor Scam. (SMRs)
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On the Chernobyl anniversary, it’s good to remember the aftermath, first the “sarcophagus” which was meant to entomb the reactor but which leaked and was, in turn, encased by the New “Safe” Confinement, designed for 100 years, but radiation within is deadly for 220,000.
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In 2022, pro-nuke trolls crowed about how much cheaper electricity was in nuclear France compared to wind & solar Germany. BUT, that was only because French law forced low prices. Now, France raised prices to match reality and Germany has been cheaper for several months in 2023.
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The pro-nukers are crowing about the 22 countries that vowed to triple nuclear power at COP 28, today. Just a reminder that there are 195 countries in the world, and the vast majority have more sense than to commit to the dirtiest, most expensive, most dangerous form of power.
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If the Fukushima radioactive water is so safe, why are they piping it a kilometer out to sea? Why not just dump it right there at the shore? Answer: It’s not safe and they know it.
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Nuclear, the dirtiest and most dangerous form of energy. No other power source has the potential to render entire Nations uninhabitable forever.
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The aging Fermi II nuclear plant is leaking radioactive primary coolant at a rate of more than 2 gallons a minute. NRC’s fantasy that you can safely run nuke plants designed for 40 years for 60 or 100 is literally falling apart before our eyes.
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The pro-nuclear trolls claim shutting Germany’s nuke plants increased CO2 emissions. They are wrong.
Moving average carbon intensity in Germany. It can clearly be seen that the nuclear shutdown helped Germany to lower emissions (10/04). Right now we are at 238 gCO2/kwh.
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Imagine if we had turned to wind and solar back in the 1970s as many of us were advocating, instead of wasting decades and billions on nukes. Perhaps the world would not be burning, now.
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Today is the 45th anniversary of the Three Mile Island meltdown. One bitter lesson we learned that day is corpirate spokespeople and gov officials lied to us about everything. They are still lying. Watch Radioactive: The Women of Three Mile Island 4 truth.
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Diablo Canyon 2 nuke plant just went offline for an estimated 47 days. For 47 days, California will be almost nuke-free, 95% + powered by wind, sun, geothermal and batteries, showing we don’t need nukes at all. Nukes are unnecessary, dirty, dangerous, and obsolete. NO NUKES!
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Pro-nuclear trolls wail about mining pollution caused by alternative energy and battery mining. Not excusing those injustices, but uranium mining has been poisoning poor and indigenous communities all over the world for 70+ years.
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Back in the 1970s, people threw off decades of government propaganda, did their own research, and discovered nuclear power was a deadly con job. Unfortunately, the propaganda has increased exponentially, but the truth remains the same.
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This is what “Speaking truth to power” means. The Japanese government has lied from day 1 of the Fukushima disaster. They lie now in every claim about tritium dumping. The dumping is a sign that the Kishida government intends to lie for the next 100 years.
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Can we PLEASE finally stop giving the murderer Putin billions of $ by buying Russian nuclear fuel? Nukes are fueling his war in Ukraine.
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Choosing nuclear is a stupid decision. Choosing to run a nuclear plant with a faulty lid is catastrophically dumb. Predictably, politics are involved. Macron and the right are desperate to prove nukes can work.
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Another architect of the nuclear industry’s corrupt HB6 bribery scheme is indicted. Nukes can’t survive without this kind of corruption because it makes no economic sense. Former top utility regulator Randazzo, handcuffed before a judge, pleads not guilty
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Another week, another nuke plant crashes…BTW as of 2/16, twelve of the US’s ~90 nukes have either crashed, been shut down, or are operating at reduced power just as a cold snap is hitting. That’s unreliability.
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@SecBlinken
@iaeaorg
Just because Japan is planning to poison the Pacific “transparently” does not make it acceptable. The US should be trying to protect our shared ocean, not cheering on its contamination.
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20,000 people still homeless from Fukushima. Remember that when pro-nukers claim there’s “no victims.” Worse, thousands were forced by the government to move back into contaminated areas. Many of them will die. Fukushima will be killing for 200,000 years.
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Yet another health effect from the radiation released at Fukushima and all the other nuclear plant disasters, diabetes.
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Nukesters often accuse those of us who are anti-nuclear as working for the fossil fuel industry, but as it’s revealed here, with its decades long construction time and fantastic expense, nuclear is a trojan horse for the coal industry.
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Decades ago, Pakistan chose nuclear power over renewables, even though they have some of the best solar resources in the world. They invested heavily in big, expensive nuke plants, partly to make A-bombs. Now, their economy is collapsing because of it.
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Parts falling off nuke plants from earthquakes in Japan. The Earth is giving Japan tons of warning. It might be the next quake, but eventually their luck will run out and we’ll have another Fukushima.
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“China has shown the world how to grow the nuclear industry: inadequate nuclear safety and security standards, inadequate regulation, media repression, whistleblower repression,the worst insurance and liability arrangements…, and rampant corruption.
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Nukesters rely on magical thinking. Even though 100 years of science tells us there is no safe dose of radiation, they believe somehow, magically, we can dump radiation into the environment without increasing cancer and other diseases. To be pro-nukes you must be anti-science.
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Another week another nuke crash. “Reliable” 24/7 is a myth. This is a twofer. Prairie unit 2 was already shut for a planned outage. Unit 1 then crashed w/electrical fail. Both offline for 7 weeks, proving nukes r not just unreliable, they’re not needed.
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This is what happens when you dump nukes and put all your efforts into renewables, you succeed.
Yesterday, Germany's instantaneous renewable share jumped above 100%. As it did last Thursday.
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One week until Unplug Nuclear Power. Events in Russia remind us EVERY nuke plant is a potential nuclear weapon in the hands of an enemy. Join is in boycotting this insane technology.
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Nuclear bankrupted Westinghouse a corporation whose value was greater than the GDP of some small nations at the time. Looks like it’s moving on to bankrupting actual nations.
Nuclear is for those who want to empty the state treasury.
Without state money and stte backup no nuclear. It is that simple.
France is a good example.
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Telling it like it is…
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Came across this peer reviewed study in Nature while battling a pro-nuclear troll who’s afraid to see the new documentary “Radioactive: The Women of Three Mile Island.” It backs up the claims of TMI downwinders that they received huge doses of radiation.
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Today is the 35th Anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. 40,000 innocent victims were hospitalized with radiation exposure. More than 1,000,000 have died prematurely. Birth defects more than doubled. Only 199,965 years to go.
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More than 1,000 scientists oppose Macron’s mad nuclear dreams.
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More nukes failing at the most crtical time because they can’t take the heat
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It’s important to remember that anti-renewables people are still saying percentages like these are impossible. Truth is we can and must go 100% renewables. No Nukes, No Carbon, No Kidding.
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Things haven’t changed much over the decades, nuke plants still dump radiation into the environment, accidents and shut downs still happen regularly, and nuclear power is still just as ridiculous.
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Our descendants will curse us for poisoning them with the radiation from Fukushima.
Dr. Goto Masashi a nuclear reactor designer
The total amount of debris is abt 880 tons.
Tepco aims to try to take out a few grams this year.
Nobody know when TEPCO can get Debri out.
The discharge of
#Fukushima
contaminated water will continue forever.
#NuclearEnergy
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It’s important to note that one of Texas’s huge nuke plants crashed just as the heat wave was becoming critical. Why didn’t the grid go down too? Battery storage and solar power. Nuclear is not practical in a warming world. Solar, wind and storage are.
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It’s very frustrating X’s algorithms ensure reasoned, factual arguments against continued operation of nuke plants like Diablo Canyon will only be seen by a few people while the radioactive fantasies of the pro-nukers get boosted to thousands.
November 7, 2023: Linda Seeley, spokesperson for Mothers for Peace, traveled to San Francisco to provide testimony to the California Public Utilities Commission. Read our message here:
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Scratch a pro-nuker and you find fossil fuel money underneath. Fossil fuel companies are counting on nukes to run interference for them for another decade at least.
Has to be said,
#RePlanet
's €2 milion per year funding is from a multinational with significant fossil fuel investments.
Green washing hypocrisy.
#ClimateScam
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More fails at the Fukushima nuclear plant “clean up.” Just a reminder that every nuclear plant is just a natural disaster, human error, or sabotage away from becoming the next meltdown, and that no one has any idea how to deal with meltdowns.
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The nuclear industry is about to be buried in sand. Thermal particulate storage, heated sand, is such an inexpensive way to store wind and solar power, that nukes now have no hope of surviving.
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Another week, another US nuke plant crashes. It happens about once a week, and every SCRAM is a potential meltdown.
On Saturday, personnel had to manually scram the Diablo Canyon-1
#nuclear
plant in
#California
and start up auxiliary feedwater as it was being shut down for a refueling outage after a secondary system dump valve failed.
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Earthquake damage to a Japanese nuclear power plant. Where have we heard this before? The LDP’s rabidly pro-nuclear energy policy is nothing short of suicidal.
@reinharduhrig
FYI. Photo of the transformer at the Shika NPP with a damaged pipe and leaking oil. One & a half of 3 external lines were lost, but the rest are alive. It is unknown if there's a mobile power vehicle, which has been mandated since 3.11, in addition to emergency diesel generators.
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Important to note Newsome is wrong. Diablo canyon is NOT needed to keep the lights on, but collusion and corruption ARE needed to keep nukes running. Sorry Californians, no more cheap, clean rooftop solar for you. Newsome has decreed you get expensive, radioactive electricity.
New utility solar PV is ~2.5-5 cents/kWh, but the added cost of keeping Diablo Canyon open costs ~9.4 cents/kWh:
@PGE4Me
admits the cost of keeping DC nuclear open another 5 y (until 2030) is $8.1 billion, which works out to 9.4 cents/kWh
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Pro-nuclear trolls want us to forget that nukes are inherently dirty and dangerous, risking meltdowns and creating deadly wastes. They pile on Germany for closing its nuke plants, but give the Germans zero credit for everything it’s doing to decarbonize.
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We’re hoping the Truth about Three Mile Island will finally be revealed in this documentary by Dr. Heidi Hutner being released Dec. 4!!!
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Japan’s backwards energy policy forces wind and solar to shut down to keep nukes running. Nukes block renewables. That’s why countries without nukes, like Uruguay and Portugal, can transition to 100% carbon free faster.
Japan is facing the same problems as CA - an excess supply of inflexible nuclear power is curtailing onboarding of renewable energy like wind and solar.
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Another week, another aging nuke plant crashes.
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Nuclear technology inevitably leads to nuclear contamination.
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Again, nuclear investors taking a bath in the radioactive cooling water of nuclear energy. SMRs, as the anti-nuclear community warned you, would be insanely expensive. Stocks tumbling. Bit of advice, don’t take investment advice from pro-nuclear trolls ‘specially billionaires.
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One of the nukesters’ more nonsensical lies is that wind and solar increase electricity costs, even though they are actually the least expensive form of energy, while nukes are the most expensive. Here’s the truth.
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Germany continues to kick butt AFTER closing their nuke plants. The pro-nuclear trolls claiming that decision was a disaster were lying. Again.
The next time someone mansplains to you how Germany is again the sick man of Europe, smile, make eye contact, and then say this: "German real per capita GDP is up 13% since 2007, France is up 6%, Spain is flat and Italy is down -4%. How exactly is Germany the sick man of Europe?"
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Nuclear proponents talk about solar field’s land use as if it’s a bad thing, when the reality is solar farms can be a boon to local wildlife, and fertile ground for local farmers.
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Here’s some hard facts for the folks living in a nuclear powered fantasy world:
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Excellent article!! Destroying the mad scheme to fill Australia with nukes, simply by documenting nuclear power’s many, many failures in the 21st century.
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One month from today is the 13th anniversary of the Fukushima nuclear disaster. Join us in boycotting grid power that day!
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Dr. Timothy Mosseau is arguably the world’s foremost expert on measuring the effects of radiation on the environment. If he says Japan’s tritium testing regime is crap, it’s crap.
The Japanese government and institutions, including the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), have claimed that tritium is not dangerous because it emits a very "weak" beta particle, but the professor called it "fiction."
#fukushima
#NuclearEnergy
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On this Chernobyl anniversary, Ukraine reminds us the only safe nuke plant is a dismantled nuke plant.
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Nuclear plants ALWAYS take longer and are more expensive than promised. That’s how the scam works.
'Cost of the flagship nuclear project in the United Kingdom has blown out again, this time to a potential $A92.6 billion as a result of yet more problems and delays at the Hinkley C project.'
'
#EDF
former CEO had originally promised in 2007 that the Hinkley project would be…
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Another week, another nuclear plant crashes. Fermi 2 in Michigan is now at 0 power. The word is one of the plant’s condensers failed.
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The Friday June 2 failure at the Palo Verde nuclear plant was the second in two months. In April, Unit 1, a true 4 gigawatt monster of a nuke plant had a scram that involved the failure of 4 major systems in a row.
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Minnesota’s Xcel plant crashes again, because it’s leaking radioactive water, again. This is the plant that dumped 400,000 gallons of radioactive water a few months ago. It’s also exactly the kind of age-related failure the NRC claimed can’t happen.
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Billionaires hate the idea that you could be making your own power with solar and geothermal. They want you dependent on them, paying them to keep your heat on. That’s why billionaires like Musk, Gates, and this guy looove nukes. They get to control you.
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Looks like another nuclear company is headed for the dump. Historically, investing in nuclear has been one of the worst decisions an investor could make. Nukes are a scam, and reality almost always catches up with them.
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Spain’s right wing parties seized on nuclear power as the answer to all that country’s problems. The fact that they did not win enough seats to form a government shows that the Spanish people aren’t drinking the radioactive kool-aid the Right is offering.
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Historically, fewer than half announced nukes are built. Most make big announcements by corrupt politicians, a few billion $ get thrown down the nuclear rabbit hole, then projects are abandoned. This is a record. 10 nukes announced and abandoned in a month. Changes the average?
Remember the song+dance about Sweden building 10 new nucs, restarting program?
Reality set in
Swedish government removes nuclear power promise from website
@howarth_cornell
@dorfman_p
@ProfStrachan
@BrianVad
@ChristianOnRE
@NSVann
@HeidiHutner
@Jaczko
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Message to nuclear: GET OUT OF THE WAY!!
Bjørn Lomborg is back arguing this big leap in renewable energy investments is useless. The graph shows the annual additions of electricity capacity. Markets are working - cheap energy is green energy. And the change is accelerating.
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Pro-nukers always repeat the lie that nukes are “dependable.” Truth is a nuclear plant in the US has an “unplanned outage,” that is it crashes, every ten days or so.
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Every country with nukes has radioactive sacrifice zones where people are being sacrificed to an immoral and unecessary industry. Your community could be next.
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Every nuke plant is a potential nuclear bomb factory, which makes the US plan to export nukes to small, unstable nations even more insane.
Nuclear, such a friendly, non-threatening technology, risk and proliferation free.
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Holtec, the corporation that promises to resurrect Pallisades nuclear plant, is a corrupt corporation with a history of lying and bribing to suck money from the taxpayers. They just got caught AGAIN!.
#NoNukes
@SecGranholm
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The latest target of the pro-nukers is the Philippines . They want to dump dangerous, dirty, and expensive tech on that beautiful island nation. BUT the Philipines is one of the most seismically active places on Earth. Volcanoes, Earthquakes, Tsunamis and nukes don’t mix.
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So often, it falls on brave women to speak the truth to deceitful and repressive governments. No Nukes!!
This lady is a
#Fukushima
resident.
She visited Korea to let people know the reality of Fukushima.
We must remember that the Japanese are the biggest victims.
#NuclearEnergy
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We have been warning for decades that nuke plants are natural targets in war. There is simply no way to protect a nuclear plant from a determined attack. If it melts down, it would contaminate much of Europe. Germany and Taiwan realize they are more secure without nuke plants.
IAEA experts confirmed physical impact of drone attacks at ZNPP today, incl. at 1 of its 6 reactors.
One casualty reported. Damage at unit 6 has not compromised nuclear safety, but this is a serious incident w/ potential to undermine integrity of the reactor’s containment system.
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This story is important for two reasons. 1) Even in Japan, solar is growing enough to start offering free electricity. 2) As the article says, dirty, expensive nuclear power bumps inexpensive, clean solar off the grid. Nukes kill solar. Can’t have both.
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Latest nuclear insanity! Letting AI do the paperwork for building new nuke plants. This is akin to simply copying old applications and submitting them as new. It is incredibly dangerous and should be illegal!!
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So much for the lie that renewables drive up electricity prices…
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More delays and more delays for Finland’s “prize” reactor. Years late, billions over budget, unreliable.
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THIS is how we get to 100% carbon-free power!! Once again, a country without nukes leads the way. It’s clear that the only way to reach our climate goals is to dump nukes and throw everything in to renewables.
Good morning with good news: Renewables generated 95% of Portugal's electricity in April! Wow!
That compares to 76.5% in April 2023, 66.8% in April 2022 and 56.1% in April 2021.
Wind was 31%, solar nearly 12%, hydro 45% and bioenergy 7%!
Data from:
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The nuclear industry is built on lies. The Vogtle plants, the most expensive power plants in human history, could not have been built without extensive lies about costs and construction times.
No Sam. “NRC rules and state/local permitting holdups” are not why Vogtle is the most expensive power plant ever built on earth. Take a gander at Ga PSC reports on the reasons. Links to original filings available upon request.
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In 2023, renewables grew by 510 Gigawatts worldwide. Nukes grew by a tiny 4 Gigawatts in 2022 with massive subsidies and taking decades to come online. Nukes are losing the race to save the planet. Time to dump them for good.
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Great news! Also important to remember this CO2 drop was accomplished with wind, solar, and storage, NOT any new nuclear.
Good morning with good news: US CO2 emissions are down 5% in 2023 thru April, compared to 2022. Progress.
Coal's CO2 emissions are down ~23%! Coal accounts for just 16% of US energy emissions, with gas at 38% & oil 46%. CO2 from oil/gas is down too.
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August 24, 2023. A day that will live in infamy.
Is Aug 24 going to be a day of marine disaster? This is how Japanese nuclear-contaminated water will affect everyone!
#Fukushima
#Japan
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The IAEA violated its own founding principles when it blessed the Fukushima radiation dumping. It created an incredible loophole that lets any country dump any radiation it wants into the Pacific. It’s a “crooked cop” and has lost all credibility.
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Lost another anti-nuclear hero. Every town with nuclear waste or nuclear fuel pays the price in cancer. Sometimes a hero like Patty fights for people and truth, but all too often, there are no voices but the corporate liars claiming everything’s fine.
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An excellent review of why concerns about dumping radioactivity into the Pacific by Japan at Fukushima are real. We should all be fighting it.
Re: 🇯🇵
#Japan
’s ☢️💦🌊dumping plan:
FOE Japan
@FoEJapan_en
published very informative 14 key points.
[Q&A] ALPS-treated (but still contaminated) water at the
#Fukushima
#nuclear
plant: 14 points to know
#tritium
#pacific
#stoptepco
#IAEA
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Time to shut down Diablo. Newsom’s blatant lie that CA needs Diablo to keep the lights on is being disproven every day. With more solar and storage, renewables can power CA 24/7.
Records are made to be broken.
Today, Sun Apr. 28,
#WindWaterSolar
supply exceeded California demand for 9.92 h (8 AM-5:55 PM), breaking yesterday's record of 9.75 h.
Today's peak: 146.7% WWS
15th day in a row and 44th out of 52 days WWS has exceeded demand for part of day
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Turns out wind farms have no measurable effect on bird populations after all. Fracking, on the other hand, causes bird populations to drop by 15%. No Nukes! No Carbon! Yes, Wind! Yes, Sun!
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