Films awaken Indian audiences to the dangers of the nuclear industry
Uranium Film Festival: Capturing Fallout Tehelka Blog, 17 Jan 13 Author: Ajachi Chakrabarti “I am now in this place where you should never come. We call it Onkalo. Onkalo means ‘hiding place’. In my time it is not yet finished, though work began in the 20th century, when I was just a child. Work will be completed in the 22nd century, long after my death. Onkalo must last 100,000 years. Nothing built by man has lasted even a tenth of that timespan.But we consider ourselves a very potent civilisation. If we succeed, Onkalo will most likely be the longest lasting remains of our civilisation. If you, sometime far in the future, find this, what would it tell you about us?”
Thus begins Into Eternity, Danish director Michael Madsen’s documentary about the Onkalo spent nuclear waste repository on the island of Oikiluoto in Finland. In 1994, the legislature amended the Finnish Nuclear Energy Act to specify that all nuclear waste produced in Finland must be disposed of in Finland. The solution was the repository, a deep cavern to be filled with radioactive waste that is designed to hold for ten half lives – in some cases, as long as 250,000 years – the accepted timespan for such waste to be considered safe.
Obvious geological fears aside, the fear that Madsen taps into in this film is that of communicating to future civilisations that the contents of this cavern they would find are very toxic Continue reading
Uranium/nuclear film festival – India 19 January
MIC to host film fest on nuclear threat from Jan 19 http://www.deccanherald.com/content/306047/mic-host-film-fest-nuclear.html Manipal, Jan 18, 2013, DHNS:
Manipal Institute of Communication and Manipal Film Study Centre at Manipal University will be organising ‘The Traveling Uranium Film Festival’ on January 19 and 20.
The International film festival is dedicated to independent documentaries and movies about nuclear power and the whole nuclear fuel chain from uranium mining, nuclear bombs to nuclear waste, from Hiroshima to Fukushima.
Started in Rio de Janeiro in 2011, the International Uranium Film Festival has traveled across Europe and has now come to India.
After successful screenings in New Delhi, Shillong and Ranchi, the film festival is set to showcase documentaries and movies about nuclear issues. Continue reading
Video: Cumbrians want Sellafield nuclear facility, just not the wastes
VIDEO Protests spread on Cumbria nuclear waste dump plan, guardian UK 17 Jan 13, As Cumbria Tourism joins the Lake District national park inwarning against research in Ennerdale and Eskdale, local meetings and rallies are spreading Here’s more on the growing concern that nuclear waste burial could be considered within the borders of the Lake District national park, followingCumbria Tourism’s stand against the prospect earlier this week.
A meeting in Keswick saw all but three of 500 present vote against the idea of pursuing research in Ennerdale and Eskdale, one of the few areas of stable geology in West Cumbria, the home of the Sellafield nuclear complex.
As well as being in the national park, the lonely valley is the subject of an experiment called Wild Ennerdale which has barred all traffic apart from a few forestry trucks and the Land Rover which services remote Black Sail youth hostel. Even the latter has been limited to the minimum possible number of journeys to sustain the many walkers to whom it is a shrine.
You can read about the Guardian Northerner‘s weekend there last November, here, and a post from its recent wardens Suzanna Brett and Martin Lyne here.…… http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/the-northerner/2013/jan/17/ennerdale-nuclear-waste
Hear Arnie Gundersen on USA’s costly shutdown nuclear reactors
AUDIO http://www.fairewinds.com/content/fairewinds-podcast REPAIRS AT FOUR NUCLEAR REACTORS ARE SO EXPENSIVE THAT THEY SHOULD NOT BE RESTARTED Jan 13, 2013 Fairewinds examines continuing problems at four US nuclear reactors, each of which have been shutdown for more than two years. Upstream dam failures continue to plague Ft. Calhoun, steam generator tube failures at San Onofre jeopardized Los Angeles. Crystal River’s containment repairs burden Floridians with excessive costs. Finally, Arnie examines a new proposal by the Department of Energy to melt radioactive scrap metal and reuse it in consumer goods like knives and forks.
David Bradbury: background to his documentary films on nuclear issues
A first wave of David Bradbury’s critically acclaimed filmography is now available for immediate streaming video on ScreenZone.tv:
http://www.screenzone.tv/products/jabiluka
http://www.screenzone.tv/products/hard-rain
http://www.screenzone.tv/products/public-enemy
http://www.screenzone.tv/products/blowin-in-the-wind
ON THE FRONTLINE: A ScreenZone interview with David Bradbury, 15 Jan 13 ”……DB: My current film examines the three stages of the nuclear film cycle on a very personal level. It started when I met an aboriginal woman called Isabelle Dingamah (sic) about four years ago, and I started to film her story. She is one of the traditional custodians of the land at Roxby [Downs]. As a little girl she’d had the British atom bomb dropped on her and her family when she was 18-months-old. It’s kind of Shakespearian. Continue reading
AUDIO USA Dept of Energy plans to put radioactive materials into products
Gundersen: U.S. gov’t to allow highly radioactive material from nuclear plants into silverware, other items? (AUDIO)http://enenews.com/gundersen-u-s-govt-to-allow-highly-radioactive-material-from-nuclear-plants-into-silverware-other-items-audio 15 Jan 13
Source: Fairewinds Energy Education
Date: January 13, 2013 Arnie examines a new proposal by the Department of Energy to melt radioactive scrap metal and reuse it in consumer goods like knives and forks.
- 14:15 Radioactive material from inside a nuclear plant
- 14:20 Turn radioactive vessels from liability to asset
- 15:30 Pots, pans, forks, knives, spoons
- 16:30 Highly radioactive steam generators to be used?
- 17:15 Reused material can remain in radioactive lumps
- 19:45 It’s not helping the consumer here to get any radioactive material in their baby spoons
Full program here http://www.fairewinds.com/content/fairewinds-podcast
VIDEO USA’s Atomic Energy Commission’s pointless efforts at “peaceful bombs”
in the least productive but most destructive test, the scientists wanted “to see how big of a hole a nuclear bomb could make.” Motherboard:
“It proved to be a really big hole.”
That test, Project Sedan, spewed radioactive fallout across four states, contaminating “more Americans than any other nuclear test.”
VIDEO The U.S. Once Wanted To Use Nuclear Bombs as a Construction Tool : http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/smartnews/2013/01/the-u-s-once-wanted-to-use-nuclear-bombs-as-a-
construction-tool/#ixzz2IFsWdcSf Smithsonian. January 16, 2013 In 1962, the Atomic Energy Commission wanted to see how big of a hole they could make with a nuclear bomb. ……..Enter, Project Sedan. the U.S.’s Atomic Energy Commission, Project Plowshare, says Motherboard, was a project in which the nation’s scientists were supposed to find something useful to do with all the nuclear expertise they had acquired throughout World War II and its aftermath. From 1961 through 1973, Project Plowshare saw 27 nuclear detonations. Many of these were at a test site in Nevada, says Motherboard, but some were a bit more experimental. In 1973, Project Rio Blanco, an operation under the banner of Project Plowshare, Continue reading
VUDEO: online Atlas of Renewable Energy resources: IRENA
VIDEO World First Renewable Energy Resources Atlas Goes Online 
http://cleantechnica.com/2013/01/16/world-first-renewable-energy-resources-atlas-goes-online/#pGsPGdve7XQtcPHD.99 January 16, 2013 Joshua S Hill
Live now at www.irena.org/GlobalAtlas, the atlas is the largest ever initiative to help countries asssess their potential renewable energy generating potential. It combines data and maps from leading technical institutions across the planet as well as private companies, and currently charts solar and wind resources.
The atlas hopes to expand to other forms of renewable energy during the next two years. In the next 10 years we expect a huge rise in the investments in renewable energy. The Global Solar and Wind Atlas will help us make the right decisions,” says Martin Lidegaard, Danish Minister of Climate, Energy and Building, and President of the 3rd session of the IRENA Assembly.
“The Global Atlas provides a powerful new tool in international efforts to double the world’s share of renewable energy by 2030,” said Adnan Z. Amin, IRENA Director-General. “With 22 countries now taking part, and more expected to join in the coming months, it is a clear sign of our growing political will to transition to clean, renewable energy.”
Renowned documentary film-maker interviewed by ScreenZone
ON THE FRONTLINE: A ScreenZone interview with David Bradbury, 15 Jan 13 ScreenZone is proud to have renowned Australian documentary filmmaker David Bradbury join our catalogue, with a number of his award-winning and important films taking centre stage. Bradbury’s films have been shown on all the major Australian commercial and public broadcast networks as well as globally. He has won countless international film festival prizes and been the winner of five AFI awards and two Academy Award nominations (Frontline, which profiled war cameraman Neil Davis, and Chile: Hasta Cuando?, on the brutal military dictatorship of General Pinochet).
Currently sourcing funding for an ambitious and strategic three-part documentary showing the relationship between Australian minining, depleted uranium (DU) fallout and the Indian nuclear program, Bradbury continues to fight on the frontline, using the power of media and documentary film to show the world the truth, and empower individuals into collective action. You can help by donating via The Frontline Film Foundation: http://www.frontlinefilmfoundation.org/friend.htm a registered charity with tax deductible status that is committed to making environmentally aware and consciousness-raising films. And stay tuned for the crowdsourcing campaign in 2013 to further engage with the power of activist filmmaking via: https://www.facebook.com/FrontlineFilmFoundation ……… http://screenzone.wordpress.com/2013/01/03/on-the-frontline-a-screenzone-interview-with-david-bradbury/
AUDIO: One by one, USA’s nuke plants likely to close?
Analyst: Florida nuclear plant will likely be closed — Gundersen: “The dominoes are starting to fall” (AUDIO)
Title: Repairs at Four Nuclear Reactors Are So Expensive That They Should Not Be Restarted http://enenews.com/analyst-florida-nuclear-plant-will-be-closed-gundersen-dominoes-starting-fall-audioSource: Fairewinds Energy Education
Date: January 13, 2013
Nuclear Expert Arnie Gundersen, Fairewinds Energy Education: Duke is seriously considering pulling the plug on the [Crystal River nuclear] plant […]
Last week we had a financial analyst at UBS suggest that Vermont Yankee didn’t make economic sense.
This week, we’ve got a financial analyst at another firm called Fitch and he says that the Crystal River plant will likely be closed because Duke can’t make economic sense out of it.
So the dominoes are starting to fall.
We’ve have Kewaunee, which is shutting down in the Midwest because of financial reasons. And now we’ve got UBS analysts and Fitch analysts also claiming it makes no economic sense to keep other nuclear plants running.
AUDIO: Future great floods threaten USA’s nuclear power plants
Gundersen: US nuclear plants at risk of ‘flood of biblical proportions’? — “They’re not designed against biblical floods” (AUDIO) Nuclear Expert Arnie Gundersen, Fairewinds Energy Education: At the Ft. Calhoun plant [in case of an upstream dam failure] we’re looking at 35 feet more water than there was in the flood 18 months ago. […]
January 13th, 2013 a
Title: Repairs at Four Nuclear Reactors Are So Expensive That They Should Not Be Restarted
Source: Fairewinds Energy Education
Date: January 13, 2013
Nuclear Expert Arnie Gundersen, Fairewinds Energy Education: At the Ft. Calhoun plant [in case of an upstream dam failure] we’re looking at 35 feet more water than there was in the flood 18 months ago. […]
Dr. [Bernard] Shanks has a quote […] he said that if an upstream dam were to fail it would cause a flood of biblical proportions. These plants are not designed against biblical floods. These plants were right at their limit 2 years ago.
According to Dr. Shanks and many other geologists and hydrologists, the condition of the upstream dams is suspect.
Full program here
VIDEO Lives slipped away – Fukushima nuclear victims
Fukushima; NHK Documentary “Lives Slipped Away” http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=cfsevdMsfHg#t=2747s NHK Fukushima
Special: “We may not have much time left until the next catastrophe occurs” (VIDEO) http://enenews.com/nhk-fukushima-special-we-may-not-have-much-time-left-until-the-next-catastrophe-occurs-video
January 12th, 2013
Title: Fukushima; NHK Documentary “Lives Slipped Away”
Source: NHK
Uploaded by: MissingSky101
Date: Jan 12, 2013
Yasushi Kamada, NHK Reporter: What should we do to save the most vulnerable among us in the event of a disaster?
How far should we risk our lives to save others?
We may not have much time left until the next catastrophe occurs.
Watch the 50-minute special here
Genetic effects of radiation shown in USA government film
fallout from fukushima http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Aoo2wvsojg This is what the government FAILED to tell us about the after-effects from fukushima. they LIED when they told us there would be NO contamination. childhood spontaneous deaths are up 40-60% along the northeast coast of the united states. there are high numbers of senior citizens who are dying suddenly from heart attack(chernobyl heart). the u.s. government committed a heinous crime when it told americans NOT to prepare and protect from the rad-fallout from fukushima. i provided this video to show you the truth
US Gov’t Film: We must be very careful using radiation — Flies with white eyes, no wings, extra wings — Albino corn, distorted corn, stunted plants (VIDEO) ) http://enenews.com/govt-film-be-very-careful-radiation-flies-white-eyes-wings-extra-wings-albino-corn-distorted-corn-stunted-plants-videoJanuary 10th, 2013
Watch the video here
Date Published: Jan 9, 2013
Dr. Frank Baxter: […] purpose was to see if mutations could be caused by radiation […] some striking abnormalities among the descendants of irradiated fruit flies.
White-eyed Fly
Nearly wingless flies, flies with extra wings, white-eyed flies. […]
A certain proportion of their descendants died as embryos and the eggs never hatched.
Scientist who photographed irradiated cells find that strange things happen […]
These are cells that have been irradiated. They cannot divide normally. Some of the chromosomes are broken. Some are misshapen. Sometimes the chromosomes fail to split and the cell cannot reproduce.
Lighter doses of radiation produces that changes that can’t be scene in the chromosomes, apparently by producing changes in the genes themselves. Thus the descendants of irradiated germ cells give us albino corn, distorted ears of corn and stunted plants.
Question: But Dr. Baxter, are all the effects of radiation bad?
Baxter: Most of them are, therefore we must be very careful when we use radiation.
VIDEO Michael Moore on violence and USA
VIDEO Filmmaker Michael Moore: US Leaders ‘Are a Violent People’
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/01/10#.UO-Ii6PzCpc.twitter
Man who produced ‘Bowling for Columbine’ over a decade ago says he is
‘heartbroken’ that film did so little to stem culture of gun violence
Common dreams, 10 Jan 13- Jon Queally, Filmmaker and
progressive activist Michael Moore says that people concerned at the
level of gun violence in the US—particularly in the aftermath of the
Sandy Hook massacre that claimed the lives of twenty young children
less than a month ago—should recognize that US leaders, who willingly
wage war on others across the globe, are among the most violent people
in what is an extremely violent culture.
“We are a violent people,” Moore said to reporters while attending a
film event this week.
“We as Americans believe it’s OK to kill people. We believe it’s OK to
invade a country that had nothing to do with 9/11. We think it’s OK to
invade a country where we think Osama Bin Laden is and he’s in the
other country. So we just go in and we just kill,” he said…..
Scary Nuclear Cover-ups in USA & Japan: Arnie Gundersen
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYsI3pUNPEM
Published on Jan 6, 2013
Podcast: January 6, 2013 – Happy New Year 2013
January 6, 2013
Thanks to our listeners and viewers, Fairewinds’ fundraiser was a success. Thank you to all our donors who helped us to reach our goal. It’s a new year, and 2013 has already kicked off a repeat of the same safety and engineering issues that plagued the nuclear industry in 2012. The two, eye opening nuclear safety issues we discuss in today’s Fairewinds’ Podcast are: a radiation scandal in Japan and a major safety problem in the US at Fort Calhoun. Arnie Gundersen alerts us to the fact that radiation exposure cover-ups did not occur only in Japan, and have occurred repeatedly in the US as well as in many other countries. Finally, we discuss Wall Street’s financial worries over US reactors.
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