This week’s nuclear news

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Fukushima. There’s tacit acceptance by world leaders that the crippled nuclear plant is in a perilous state. Now it is hard to get information: mainstream media is quiet , but Japanese sources highlight the costs, and problems, as the clean-up efforts go on by many contract and casual workers, with health outcomes, and even deaths not reported. The new Japanese secrecy law takes effect concerning radiation health effects TEPCO –Workers deaths are not reported 報道されない原発作業員の死亡について

Japan’s energy and nuclear program delayed, as public anti nuclear sentiment rises. Two former Japanese Prime Ministers speak outagainst nuclear power

Scientist Ken Buesseler organises a thorough study into assessing radioactive isotopes in the Pacific Ocean.

France and Germany to co-operate in a project to reduce nuclear power and develop renewable energy.

Canada: At long last, Port Hope’s radioactive trash problem is being addressed

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Ohioans Against Nuke Bailout https://www.facebook.com/OhioansAgainstNukeBailout/

PETITION https://www.ohioansagainstnukebailouts.com/petition

The Trump Nuclear Push ECU 637 KEVIN KAMPS

After The Apocalypse The Polygon Tests

How the Greenland ice melt will expose buried US nuclear waste within decades｜Climate Change

Free Julian Assange, before it’s too late. Sign to STOP the USA ExtraditionPETITION

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION – theme for October 19

Press freedom: Criminalizing journalistic activity NYT,

The Context

Prosecutors recently expanded a criminal case against Julian Assange to include accusations that he violated the Espionage Act by soliciting, obtaining, and publishing classified documents leaked in 2010 by Chelsea Manning, which could establish a precedent that such common journalistic activities (a separate question from whether Assange counts as a “journalist”) can be treated as a crime in America.

The Question

Are these charges constitutional? Would your administration continue the Espionage Act part of the case against Assange?……..

Elizabeth Warren, Senator from Massachusetts,

Whatever one’s opinions of Julian Assange, these charges under the Espionage Act set a precedent that could be used to target journalists. We should not be using this case as a pretext to wage war on the First Amendment and go after the free press who hold the powerful accountable everyday. more https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/us/politics/press-freedoms-executive-power.html

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