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DoomsdaysCW<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Wildfire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Wildfire</a> risks high at <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#US</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearPlants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NuclearPlants</a>Posted on January 19, 2025 by beyondnuclearinternationalThe GAO identifies a number of US nuclear power plant sites that are vulnerable to the possible outbreak of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/wildfires" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#wildfires</a> where they are located. "'According to our analysis of U.S. Forest Service and NRC data, about 20 percent of nuclear power plants (16 of 75) are located in areas with a high or very high potential for wildfire,' the GAO report states. 'More specifically, more than one-third of nuclear power plants in the South (nine of 25) and West (three of eight) are located in areas with a high or very high potential for wildfire.' The GAO goes on to identify 'Of the 16 plants with high or very high potential for wildfire, 12 are operating and four are shut down.'"To analyze exposure to the wildfire hazard potential, the GAO used 2023 data from the U.S. Forest Service’s Wildfire Hazard Potential Map. 'High / very high refers to plants in areas with high or very high wildfire hazard potential. Those nuclear power stations described by GAO as 'high / very high' exposure to wildfires and their locations are excerpted from GAO Appendix III: Nuclear Power Plant Exposure to Selected Natural Hazards.Table 1: Potential High Exposure to 'Wildfires' at Operating Nuclear Power Plants–AZ / <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SAFER" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SAFER</a>, one of two mobile nuclear emergency equipment supply units in the nation, “HIGH / VERY HIGH” –CA / <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DiabloCanyon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DiabloCanyon</a> Units 1 & 2 nuclear power station, “HIGH / VERY HIGH” –FL / <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TurkeyPoint" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TurkeyPoint</a> Units 3 & 4 nuclear power station, “HIGH / VERY HIGH” –GA / <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EdwinIHatch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EdwinIHatch</a> Units 1 & 2 nuclear power station, “HIGH / VERY HIGH” –GA / <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Vogtle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Vogtle</a> Units Units 1, 2, 3 & 4, nuclear power station, “HIGH / VERY HIGH” –NC / <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BrunswickNC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BrunswickNC</a> Units 1 & 2 nuclear power station, “HIGH / VERY HIGH” –NC / <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/McGuireNC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#McGuireNC</a> Units 1 & 2 nuclear power station, “HIGH / VERY HIGH” –NC / <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ShearonHarris" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ShearonHarris</a> Units 1 & 2 nuclear power station, “HIGH /VERY HIGH” –NB / <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CooperNuclearPowerStation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CooperNuclearPowerStation</a>, “HIGH / VERY HIGH” –SC / <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Catawba" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Catawba</a> Units 1 & 2 nuclear power station, “HIGH / VERY HIGH” –SC / <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HBRobinson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HBRobinson</a> Units 1 & 2 nuclear power station, “HIGH / VERY HIGH” –WA / <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ColumbiaNuclear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ColumbiaNuclear</a> power station, “HIGH / VERY HIGH”Table 2: Potential High Exposure to “Wildfires” at Shutdown Nuclear Power Plants–CA / <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SanOnofre" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SanOnofre</a> Units 1 & 2, “HIGH / VERY HIGH” –FL / <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CrystalRiver" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CrystalRiver</a>, “HIGH / VERY HIGH” –NJ / <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/OysterCreek" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OysterCreek</a>, “HIGH / VERY HIGH” –NY / <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndianPoint" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IndianPoint</a> Units 1, 2 & 3, “HIGH / VERY HIGH”"Wildfires can transport <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/radioactive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#radioactive</a> contamination from nuclear facilities"A historical review of wildfires that occur around nuclear facilities (research, military and commercial power) identifies that these events are also a very effective transport mechanism of radioactivity previously generated at these sites and subsequently released into the environment by accident, spills and leaks, and careless dumping. The radioactivity is <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/resuspended" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#resuspended</a> by wildfires that occur years, even decades later."The fires carry the radioactivity on smoke particles <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/downwind" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#downwind</a>, thus expanding the zone of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/contamination" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#contamination</a> further and further with each succeeding fire. The dispersed <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/radionuclides" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#radionuclides</a> can have very long half-lives meaning they remain biologically hazardous in the environment for decades, centuries and longer."Read more: <a href="https://beyondnuclearinternational.org/2025/01/19/wildfire-risks-high-at-nuclear-plants/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://beyondnuclearinternational.org/2025/01/19/wildfire-risks-high-at-nuclear-plants/</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Downwinders" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Downwinders</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoNukes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NoNukes</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RethinkNotRestart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RethinkNotRestart</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoNukesForAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NoNukesForAI</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearSafety" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NuclearSafety</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ClimateCrisis</a>

DoomsdaysCWThe Silent Killers in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndianCountry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IndianCountry</a>: <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Copper" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Copper</a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Lithium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Lithium</a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Uranium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Uranium</a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Plutonium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Plutonium</a>Judge finds plutonium plants in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NewMexico" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NewMexico</a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SouthCarolina" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SouthCarolina</a> violated environmental lawsBy <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BrendaNorrell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BrendaNorrell</a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CensoredNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CensoredNews</a>, Oct. 10, 2024"The U.S. government's plan for increased plutonium production at <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LosAlamos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LosAlamos</a> National Laboratory, in the heart of Pueblo lands in northern New Mexico, has been delayed by a federal judge. "Continuing the U.S. legacy of poisoning Indian country with <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/radiation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#radiation</a>, this comes as the U.S. government is granting leases to foreign <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/mining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mining</a> companies targeting Native <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/sacred" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sacred</a> lands and communities. "<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CopperMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CopperMining</a> is targeting San CarlosApache's sacred <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/OakFlat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OakFlat</a>; <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Hualapai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Hualapai</a> are suing the US Department of Interior to halt lithium mining at their sacred spring Ha'Kamwe'; and the U.S. government is promoting the ongoing digging into the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Paiute" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Paiute</a> Massacre Site in northern Nevada for <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/lithium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#lithium</a>, in violation of all federal laws that protect Native religious and historic sites, the environment and endangered species."Uranium mining in the Grand Canyon threatens <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Havasupai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Havasupai</a>'s aquifer, the haul route endangers everyone in the Four Corners region, and the uranium mill at White Mesa Ute in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Utah" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Utah</a> is poisoning <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Utes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Utes</a>. "Interior Sec. <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DebHaaland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DebHaaland</a> said in Farmington, N.M., that Los Alamos Labs would be the leader in the so-called '<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GreenEnergy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GreenEnergy</a> transition' in the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FourCorners" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FourCorners</a> region."More than 500 radioactive <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/UraniumMill" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UraniumMill</a> sites remain on the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NavajoNation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NavajoNation</a> that have not been cleaned up by the U.S. <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EPA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EPA</a>, which deceives the public by announcing plans and promises to clean up the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ColdWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ColdWar</a> sites. "In the current federal lawsuit, a federal judge in South Carolina ruled that U.S. energy officials illegally neglected to study impacts to the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/environment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#environment</a> in efforts to increase plutonium production for nuclear weapons in New Mexico and South Carolina."'South Carolina District Court Judge Mary Geiger Lewis sided with environmental, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AntiNuclear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AntiNuclear</a> proliferation and community groups last week who sued the National Nuclear Security Administration (<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NNSA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NNSA</a>), which oversees the nuclear weapons stockpile as part of the U.S. Department of Energy [<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DOE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DOE</a>],' reports Source New Mexico. "The U.S. is investing billions into restarting the manufacture of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PlutoniumPits" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PlutoniumPits</a>, the grapefruit-sized spheres developed for <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/nuclear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#nuclear</a> weapons. The plutonium is produced from uranium. "'The federal government halted its manufacturing program at the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RockyFlatsPlant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RockyFlatsPlant</a> in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Colorado" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Colorado</a> in 1989 after an FBI raid due to safety concerns and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnvironmentalCrimes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EnvironmentalCrimes</a>,' Source New Mexico reports. "The U.S. government's <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AtomicBombTesting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AtomicBombTesting</a> in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Nevada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Nevada</a> left a trail of cancer and death for <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WesternShoshone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WesternShoshone</a>. The documentary 'Downwind' reveals the truth."'This is a very serious issue and that's why I can't let it go. I can't move on. People say, 'oh, why don't you just let it go?' Because it's killing my family. It's killing my land. It's killing my people. And that will not stand. It's being done in secret. And killing Indians in secret will not stand,' said Ian Zabarte, Principal Man of the Western Bands of the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ShoshoneNation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ShoshoneNation</a> of Indians. Zabarte is featured in '<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Downwind" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Downwind</a>' about radiation poisoning from U.S. <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearTests" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NuclearTests</a>. "Currently, foreign companies -- which receive the profits and find it easy to avoid clean up and responsibility for <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/environmental" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#environmental</a> crimes and deaths from <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/cancer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cancer</a> -- are receiving the mining leases from the U.S. government. The leases are granted by the U.S. Interior's Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and in the case of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/UraniumMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UraniumMining</a> in the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GrandCanyon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GrandCanyon</a>, it is the USDA's Forestry Service. <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Biden" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Biden</a>'s attorneys have joined the lawsuit with <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RioTinto" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RioTinto</a> to devastate <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/OakFlat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OakFlat</a>. "Australian and Canadian mining corporations are devastating Native lands and communities, poisoning the water and causing widespread cancer. Rio Tinto, targeting Apaches <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/OakFlat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OakFlat</a>, is an Australian company which destroyed 46,000 years of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Aboriginal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Aboriginal</a> sacred history in caves in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Australia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Australia</a>. "Another Australian mining company is targeting <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Hualapai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Hualapai</a>'s sacred site. It is <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Hawstone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Hawstone</a> / <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ArizonaLithium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ArizonaLithium</a>, in Perth, Australia. "<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnergyFuels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EnergyFuels</a>, now uranium mining in the Grand Canyon, and operating the uranium mill at <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WhiteMesaUte" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WhiteMesaUte</a>, is a Canadian company. Another Canadian company is digging into the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Paiute" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Paiute</a> Massacre Site. It is <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LithiumAmericas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LithiumAmericas</a>. <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Hopi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Hopi</a> judge <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DianeHumetewa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DianeHumetewa</a> granted a temporary restraining order to halt the lithium mining at <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Hualapai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Hualapai</a>'s sacred spring."Read more: <a href="https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/10/the-silent-killers-in-indian-country.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/10/the-silent-killers-in-indian-country.html</a><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoUraniumMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NoUraniumMining</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CopperMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CopperMining</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LithiumMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LithiumMining</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoMiningWithoutConsent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NoMiningWithoutConsent</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnvironmentalRacism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EnvironmentalRacism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NoWar</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoNukes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NoNukes</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearWeapons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NuclearWeapons</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RecycleCopper" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RecycleCopper</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RecycleLithium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RecycleLithium</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WaterIsLife</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearWaste" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NuclearWaste</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DefendTheSacred" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DefendTheSacred</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WhiteMesaMill" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WhiteMesaMill</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Ute" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ute</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AtomicBomb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AtomicBomb</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CulturalGenocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CulturalGenocide</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Genocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Genocide</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FirstNations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FirstNations</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NativeAmericanNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NativeAmericanNews</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SuperfundSites" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SuperfundSites</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ToxicWaste" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ToxicWaste</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SaveOakFlat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SaveOakFlat</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/OpenPitMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OpenPitMining</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Pollution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Pollution</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ReaderSupportedNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ReaderSupportedNews</a>

DoomsdaysCWSo, apparently, aging <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearPowerPlants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NuclearPowerPlants</a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearWeapons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NuclearWeapons</a> programs get TONS of cash, while people who lived <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Downwind" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Downwind</a> of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearWeaponsTests" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NuclearWeaponsTests</a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/UraniumMines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UraniumMines</a> (and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/UraniumMills" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UraniumMills</a>) get NOTHING?!! Wow...!<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/07/world/europe/reca-nuclear-radiation-congress.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/07/world/europe/reca-nuclear-radiation-congress.html</a><a href="https://cronkitenews.azpbs.org/2024/07/05/navajo-uranium-miners-people-downwind-atom-bomb-tests-demand-justice/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://cronkitenews.azpbs.org/2024/07/05/navajo-uranium-miners-people-downwind-atom-bomb-tests-demand-justice/</a><a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/opinion-utah-must-reauthorize-the-radiation-exposure-compensation-act/ar-BB1qHmyj" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/opinion-utah-must-reauthorize-the-radiation-exposure-compensation-act/ar-BB1qHmyj</a><a href="https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/07/26/the-advance-act-a-bipartisan-surrender-to-the-nuclear-lobby/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/07/26/the-advance-act-a-bipartisan-surrender-to-the-nuclear-lobby/</a><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Downwinders" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Downwinders</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoNukes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NoNukes</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NoWar</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BanTheBomb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BanTheBomb</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoUraniumMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NoUraniumMining</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RECA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RECA</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NuclearWar</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AdvanceAct" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AdvanceAct</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearWeapons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NuclearWeapons</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ICANN" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ICANN</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Oppenheimer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Oppenheimer</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HaulNo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HaulNo</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/InformedConsent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#InformedConsent</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnvironmentalRacism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EnvironmentalRacism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WaterIsLife</a>

DoomsdaysCW<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Navajo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Navajo</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/uranium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#uranium</a> miners, people <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/downwind" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#downwind</a> of atom bomb tests demand justice as Congress lets aid program lapse by Keetra Bippus / Cronkite News July 5, 2024 WASHINGTON – "A federal program to compensate people exposed to fallout from U.S. nuclear testing expired June 10."The <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Radiation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Radiation</a> Exposure Compensation Act has paid out $2.6 billion to over 41,000 people since 1992. In March, the U.S. Justice Department projected that another 1,070 claims would be approved by the end of September.“'Why do we have to beg to pass <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RECA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RECA</a>?' said <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MaggieBilliman" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MaggieBilliman</a>, whose father, a <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NavajoCodeTalker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NavajoCodeTalker</a> during World War II, died of stomach cancer she attributes to exposure to <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/fallout" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fallout</a> that affected their hometown in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Arizona" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Arizona</a>. 'You don’t put a price tag on human life.'"Starting with the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ManhattanProject" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ManhattanProject</a>’s Trinity test on July 16, 1945, weeks before bombs destroyed <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Hiroshima" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Hiroshima</a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Nagasaki" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Nagasaki</a>, the U.S. government conducted 94 tests that produced radioactive mushroom clouds in remote areas of the West. Most were over <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Nevada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Nevada</a>. One was over <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NewMexico" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NewMexico</a>."People <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/downwind" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#downwind</a> – including many in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Arizona" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Arizona</a> – were exposed to dangerous <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/fallout" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fallout</a>, typically without warning."The Billimans’ hometown, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SawmillArizona" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SawmillArizona</a>, on <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NavajoLand" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NavajoLand</a>, is part of the large affected area where Congress made residents eligible for compensation."<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Radioactive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Radioactive</a> particles fell throughout Arizona, according to research from Princeton University’s Program on Science and Global Security. The state’s population grew from about half a million just before World War II to over 1.3 million in the early 1960s."Congress adopted RECA in 1992 to address claims from downwinders and uranium miners."The program offers an apology, and lump sum compensation ranging from $50,000 to $100,000 to those who developed certain illnesses linked with radiation exposure, and who either lived in the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FalloutZones" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FalloutZones</a> or worked at <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/UraniumMines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UraniumMines</a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/UraniumMills" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UraniumMills</a>."The law came in response to lawsuits from uranium workers who accused the government of failing to warn them about radiation hazards.From 1944 to 1986, nearly 30 million tons of uranium ore was extracted from Navajo lands. The Manhattan Project itself, led by physicist <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RobertOppenheimer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RobertOppenheimer</a>, was disbanded in 1947, two years after Japan surrendered to end World War II."An estimated 3,000 to 5,000 Navajo people worked in the mines. They and their families lived nearby.“'The closer you live to mine waste, the higher your risk of chronic <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/metabolic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#metabolic</a> disease,' said Chris Shuey, director of the Uranium Impact Assessment Program at the Southwest Research and Information Center, a nonprofit research and advocacy group. 'People who live in these communities next to these wastes, they’re exposed through all of the pathways: air, water, land.'"Claims from Arizona, New Mexico, Utah and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Colorado" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Colorado</a> account for $1.8 billion of the payouts under RECA."Most of the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NavajoNation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NavajoNation</a> was covered due to potential fallout. About one in seven approved claims – 5,480 through the end of 2023 – have come from <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NativeAmericans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NativeAmericans</a>, 86% of them Navajo, totalling $372.6 million."The Environmental Protection Agency counts 523 abandoned uranium mines on or near the Navajo reservation that spans Arizona, New Mexico and Utah, an area bigger than Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Vermont combined."The Senate voted 69-31 in March to extend the RECA filing period for five more years, with 46 Democrats and 20 Republicans in favor, along with Sen. <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/KrystenSinema" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#KrystenSinema</a> of Arizona and two other independents. Sen. <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MarkKelly" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MarkKelly</a>, D-Ariz., also supported the bill.The bill has stalled in the House, with no explanation from Speaker Mike Johnson or Majority Leader Steve Scalise, both Republicans from Louisiana. "Their aides did not respond to multiple requests for comment."Read more: <a href="https://cronkitenews.azpbs.org/2024/07/05/navajo-uranium-miners-people-downwind-atom-bomb-tests-demand-justice/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://cronkitenews.azpbs.org/2024/07/05/navajo-uranium-miners-people-downwind-atom-bomb-tests-demand-justice/</a><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Downwinders" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Downwinders</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoNukes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NoNukes</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NoWar</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BanTheBomb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BanTheBomb</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoUraniumMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NoUraniumMining</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NuclearWar</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearWeapons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NuclearWeapons</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ICANN" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ICANN</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Oppenheimer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Oppenheimer</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HaulNo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HaulNo</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/InformedConsent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#InformedConsent</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnvironmentalRacism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EnvironmentalRacism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WaterIsLife</a>

Chuck DarwinSupreme court issues three major decisions surrounding Purdue Pharma, the EPA and abortion -- but I'd quiet on Trump immunity hours before debate The supreme court on Thursday issued three major decisions on cases involving OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma, an air pollution rule by the Environmental Protection Agency and abortion access in Idaho.⭐️In a 5-4 decision, the conservative-majority court rejected <a href="https://c.im/tags/Purdue" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Purdue</a> Pharma’s multi-billion dollar settlement that would have shielded the wealthy <a href="https://c.im/tags/Sackler" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Sackler</a> family from future lawsuits over the country’s deadly <a href="https://c.im/tags/opioid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#opioid</a> epidemic, but would have also provided compensation and rehabilitation funds to victims. In his opinion, conservative justice Neil Gorsuch wrote: “The Sacklers seek greater relief than a bankruptcy discharge normally affords, for they hope to extinguish even claims for wrongful death and fraud, and they seek to do so without putting anything close to all their assets on the table.”⭐️In a separate 5-4 decision, the court put on hold an attempt by the <a href="https://c.im/tags/EPA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EPA</a> to reduce air pollution from power plants in “upwind” states that would affect air quality in “<a href="https://c.im/tags/downwind" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#downwind</a>” states. Along with industry allies, Ohio, West Virginia and Indiana have been challenging the EPA’s rule. Conservative justice Amy Coney Barrett, who joined the court’s three liberal justices, in dissent, wrote that the court “justifies this decision based on an alleged procedural error that likely had no impact on the plan.”⭐️Meanwhile, in a victory for reproductive rights activists, the court dismissed a case over whether <a href="https://c.im/tags/emergency" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#emergency</a> room doctors can perform <a href="https://c.im/tags/abortions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#abortions</a> to so save a pregnant woman’s life. The court’s 6-3 decision marks a win for the Joe Bidenadministration, for now, as the case is returned to a lower court and potentially delays a final decision until after the election. Idaho had tried to have the procedure exempted from the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act.<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2024/jun/27/supreme-court-decision-politics-trump-biden-debate-latest-updates?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2024/jun/27/supreme-court-decision-politics-trump-biden-debate-latest-updates?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other</a>

DoomsdaysCWNew film ‘<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Downwind" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Downwind</a>’ explores the long shadow of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearFallout" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NuclearFallout</a> in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Utah" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Utah</a> and beyondCriticizes <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/USGovernment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USGovernment</a>’s neglect of people suffering from <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/radiation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#radiation</a> Review: <a href="https://www.sltrib.com/artsliving/2023/01/19/new-film-downwind-explores-long/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.sltrib.com/artsliving/2023/01/19/new-film-downwind-explores-long/</a>Trailer: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkoVPZnLlUY" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkoVPZnLlUY</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Downwinders" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Downwinders</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/UraniumFilmFestival" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UraniumFilmFestival</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/InternationalUraniumFilmFestival" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#InternationalUraniumFilmFestival</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnvironmentalRacism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EnvironmentalRacism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WaterIsLife</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoNukes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NoNukes</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NoWar</a>

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