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“We are the Miner’s Canary”: Indigenous Organizations Call for Clean Up of Radioactive Pollution Crisis; “Clean Nuclear is a Deadly Lie”

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““Native American nations of North America are the miners’ canaries for the United States trying to awaken the people of the world to the dangers of radioactive pollution”, said Charmaine White Face from the South Dakota based organization Defenders of the Black Hills. South Dakota has 272 AUMs [Abandoned Uranium Mines] which are contaminating waterways such as the Cheyenne River and desecrating sacred and ceremonial sites. An estimated 169 AUMs are located within 50 miles of Mt. Rushmore where millions of tourists risk exposure to radioactive pollution each year.” (From Clean Up the Mines! Press Release, below)
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Mount Rushmore, South Dakota, National Park Service

From Clean Up the Mines:
“Press Release: ‘We are the Miner’s Canary’: Indigenous Organizations Call for Clean Up of ‘Homegrown’ Radioactive Pollution Crisis
POSTED January 29, 2016 WRITTEN BY Clean Up The Mines!
For Immediate Release
Friday, January 29, 2016
15,000 Abandoned Uranium…

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January 31 Energy News

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Opinion:

Politicians take note: Iowa is the US’s most wind-powered state – and everyone loves it! • Wind supplies 30% of the state’s power, more than any other US state. Windpower also gets real bipartisan support in Iowa. A recent poll taken by Public Opinion Strategies shows an 85% approval rating. [The Ecologist]

Wind power in Iowa, where it's big, getting bigger, and everyone loves it. Photo: Andrew Huff via Flickr (CC BY-NC). Wind power in Iowa, where it’s big, getting bigger, and everyone loves it. Photo: Andrew Huff via Flickr (CC BY-NC).

Nuclear renaissance? Failing industry is running flat out to stand still • Ten new power reactors began supplying electricity last year (eight of them in China), and eight reactors were permanently shut down. In 1995 there were 434 ‘operable’ reactors. In 2005 there were 441, and now there are 439. [The Ecologist]

Science and Technology:

¶ A new design from Sandia National Laboratories, for wind turbines with gigantic blades longer than…

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January 30 Energy News

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Opinion:

Why cheap oil isn’t bad for the environment • A lot of opposing forces are shaking the old assumptions. In the jaws of bargain oil, the US DOE expects Americans to increase their use of renewable power this year by almost 10%. Why is this time different? There are many factors, and nearly all favor renewables. [The Daily Advertiser]

A Vestas service technician walks up the stairs to the door at the base of a wind turbine at the Taralga Wind Farm. (Photo: Mark Kolbe, Getty Images) A Vestas service technician walks up the stairs to the door of a wind turbine at the Taralga Wind Farm. (Photo: Mark Kolbe, Getty Images)

The NYC Security Risk That Candidates Aren’t Discussing • It is surprising that presidential candidates don’t do more to protect to New York City. But to be fair, New Yorkers themselves may not know the security risk the Indian Point nuclear plant poses, several miles up the Hudson River. [Huffington Post]

France Peddles Unsafe Nuclear Reactors to India…

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Advice of “Father of Health Physics” for Disposing of Tritium Safely Rebuffed by US NRC, Dr. K.Z. Morgan interview: DC, Philadelphia, Baltimore Treated as Guinea Pigs

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Dr. KZ Morgan ORNL http://web.ornl.gov/info/ornlreview/rev25-34/chapter2sb4.htm

From Dr. Morgan interview:
“This attitude [for radiation safety] did not prevail, apparently, at some other places. Certainly it did not at Three Mile Island. Since I left the faculty at Georgia Tech, I’ve testified in over a hundred-fifty cases, trying to help people that have allegedly been injured by radiation. We won the Karen Silkwood case and Crumbeck case, and I was a sole witness [for the plaintiff when] we won in the Three Mile Island class-action suit.

But in most other cases, the AEC and DOE [have] called—[what was] then the Department of Justice [(DOJ)]; let me call it the “Department of Injustice” [to make false claims about radiation exposure] under some of the people there. They [(the DOJ employees)] actually bragged about the fact that they set up courses to train health physicists and lawyers on how to keep injured parties, injured from radiation, from…

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Contaminated food in Japan – Taro Yamamoto -English Transcription

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Now, they are telling us that it’s safe to eat. Please, I beg. Please stop. Give us some mercy. That’s how I feel. Why would a country do such a thing, you wonder. The answer is easy. Unless they use such a high number, the economy won’t turn around. Unless they use such a high number, our food won’t be on the market. There will be compensation and insurance issues to deal with.

Contaminated food in Japan – English Transcription below

被爆の現状: 日本にいる人は必見です。シェアお願いします。

This must be shared by anyone who is in Japan. Please pass on if you know anyone who is in Japan. Taro Yamamoto talks about risk of Fukushima radiation in Japanese food. Current Japanese regulation allows nuclear waste level food to be on the market. He also appeals for people’s right to evacuate in contaminated areas. The political decision to protect the market economy has resulted in this catastrophic situation where many are predicting a major disaster according to numbers indicated by Chernobyl, Hiroshima and etc.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=aseCLtFsXgM&feature=youtu.be

Here is a transcript of the interview. I am responsible for any errors in translation.

Hiroyuki Hamada    http://hiroyukihamada.com/

Taro Yamamoto Interview, regarding radiation exposure

We should regard the need for elimination of nuclear power as a fact. Japan is an earthquake prone nation. The Fukushima accident has proven that nuclear power plants can’t withstand earthquake and tsunami. But this country is totally heading in the opposite direction. We’ll restart nuclear plants. We’ll build more of them. We’ll export them too. We can only describe the situation as insanity.

When the power that forces nuclear power to prevail dominates us, we must focus our attention in seeking ways to survive. So the words we use to describe our policy should not be elimination of nuclear power, but it should be elimination of radiation exposure. We will not expose our children to radiation. And since it’s grownups’ job to do so, we will not expose grownups either. What can we do to achieve that goal? We have to give the right to evacuate to the people who live in areas with 1 m Sv per year. If anyone wishes to leave, the government must help with financial support as well as guaranteeing a job. That must be done, right? We are all victims. Today, we only have the right to be radiated. That’s not a right at all. It’s a coercion. Coercion of absurdity. Who can stand anything like that? We need the right to evacuate as well as the right to be radiated.

We had the accident in Fukushima caused by TEPCO. And, it is still continuing. There is 10 million Bq per hour radiation coming out of the plants. That’s 240 million Bq per day going out to the sky. The leakage into the ocean is not even counted. It’s just dumped freely. They don’t even know what sort of effects they can expect from it. In fact, they don’t want to know what the effects are. Because if they reveal the situation for what it is, they must admit that the entire area of eastern Japan is contaminated. Of course, the contamination is not evenly spread. But the hot spots do spread in the area. That must be disclosed. There are people who will be affected. In fact, there might be food being produced in such areas.

And they say that there is no need to worry because they inspect the food. The food is contaminated sporadically so it stands to reason that their sporadic inspection can miss the trace of contamination. According to the current Japanese regulation we can safely consume 100 Bq per 1 kg in our food. They say it’s OK to eat that much. But it’s not that clear just by hearing the number, right? But when we compare the number allowed today for our food consumption with the number before the accident, the number we have today is the same as the amount deemed as radioactive waste before the accident: The material that had to be stored in yellow barrels with a strict regulation. It was the material that had to be supervised for 1 million years. Now, they are telling us that it’s safe to eat. Please, I beg. Please stop. Give us some mercy. That’s how I feel. Why would a country do such a thing, you wonder. The answer is easy. Unless they use such a high number, the economy won’t turn around. Unless they use such a high number, our food won’t be on the market. There will be compensation and insurance issues to deal with.

So what can we do? I was compelled to stand up. I heard people saying there is no use for someone like myself. We should let the professionals deal with politics, they said. But the thing is that we are dealing with the result of letting the professionals do the job. I dare say that we need an idiot like myself who can act. I believe that I need to step forward with all my strength and raise my voice as much as I can, as I depend on people’s wisdom.

Taro Yamamoto, Japanese independent Diet member

Source Video (Japanese only)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aseCLtFsXgM

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