"Peaceful" North Korean nuclear energy illustrates dangers of nuclear energy

2009 May 26: 5.37pm ET --"Peaceful" North Korean nuclear energy program shows that the world cannot throw open the door on new nuclear energy programs.

North Korea detonated a nuclear explosion --a blast that equalled the blasts that killed hundreds of thousands of people at Hiroshima and Nagaski, Japan, in 1945... Then for fun, North Korea lobbed a few more short-range missles, to show that they can!

To think that other nations won't follow this route?

Small big victory: Ontario Government delays nuclear decision

Small big victory: Ontario Government delays nuclear decision
2009 May 25. 3:16pm ET

Ontario Government delays nuclear decision. Congratulations to the concerned citizens and activists of Ontario, Canada and the world, whose political and public awareness campaign pressured the Government of Ontario, to delay --again!-- its commitment to spend $26 Billion on new nuclear energy power in Ontario, Canada!

The Ontario Government gives no explanation of their decision to delay.

We need to keep the pressure on! Nuclear is NOT green, is NOT safe, is not even cost-effective!

Since 2006, Ontario's energy needs have been dropping! Thus, many people say, that Ontario doesn't even need costly, dangerous nuclear power!

National Waste Management Organization has plan for safe nuclear fuel storage?! NWMO ad sounds like series of oxymorons that could destroy humanity?!

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2009 May 19: 2.37 am ET

The National Waste Management Organization has plan for SAFE nuclear fuel storage?! NWMO ads in media sound like series of oxymorons that could destroy humanity --"safe" nuclear storage?!

With the threat of natural disasters and terrorism, where and what is a "safe" storage location and structure for nuclear fuel, and nuclear waste fuel? How can we safeguard radioactive "nuclear waste" for hundreds and thousands of years?! A single nuclear leak could enter the global air, and/or national ground water... Exaggeration, paranoia of anti-nuclear nuts...?! Government officials have admitted to these two very possibilities in the cases of Three-Mile Island, and Chernobyl. In fact, recent UK "leaks" of studies, show that many Brit UK farms and sheeps are today still scanned and rejected for sale, because of dangerous levels of radiation, caused by Chernobyl --in 1986!!!

These are some of the very issues that Mr Greg Allen and Ms Adriana Mugnatto-Hamu articulated in March 2009, that inspired our NoNuclearNow efforts, such as this very blog, and our history-making rally, to highlight anti-nuclear issues that are being suppressed by nuclear industry actions as this one by the "Nuclear Waste Management Organization." A half-page ad in today's Toronto Star, to seek a "fair process" to find a "community to host... safe containment and isolation of Canada's used nulcear feul for the long term..."

And what is the true costs of such facilities? How many billions of scarce, dwindling taxpayer dollars would have to be spent to design, build, maintain, safeguard these storge sites, against earthquake, terrorists... for centuries... ?! Is there really a plan?

Some anti-nuclear activists believe such "safe" nuclear waste sites cannot be achieved.

Look at the nuclear waste leaks we have today. Look at the very real fear by the governments of the USA and Britain, Germany, etc. that terrorists shall get nuclear weapons grade material from nuclear waste storage?!

One of the big concerns about nuclear energy power, of course, is the storage of the fuel, after it thas been used. This " fuel waste" may be radioactive for hundreds or thousands of years.

The nuclear industry is holding a series of information sessions to supposedly initiate dialogue, to create a fair process to identify a community to host such a "safe containment" area for Canada's nuclear waste...

We just discovered this "consultation process" in the newspaper. There are 6 such meetings in Ontario through May 2009. Toronto is May 21, Marriott Toronto Downtown.

Concerned citizens should attend. Is there time to organize anti-nuclear position and action around these meetings?

By the way, anti-nuclear activists are just exaggerating, paranoid?! Today's news, includes announcements that Canada's Chalk River nuclear reactors may have to be shut down again, due to problems. Last year, the reactors were shut down so long that the world's nuclear medicine supplies were so depleted, that tests and treatments needing nuclear isotopes were cancelled! So let's have a nuclear moratorium, before we build hundreds of new "SAFE" nuclear reactors; that have "safe" sites for nuclear waste --that is radioactive for hundreds of years...

We can NOT trust nuclear industry officials without true citizen and government review and cooperation. Concerned citizens must outreach now to the good people in government, public and media!

global scramble stop dangerous, unnecessary nuclear energy

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May 16, 2009, 2.38am ET

Global scramble stop dangerous, unnecessary nuclear energy

On April 2, 2009, with the great inspiration and efforts of people like Greg Allen, Adriana Mugnatto-Hamu, and Amy L, we organized a history-making rally, NoNuclearNow.

The rally was the first public rally in the world to ever take place in a pedestrian traffic intersection, "a scramble" intersection, that allowed rally supporters to occupy the centre of the intersection, and offer messages about the dangers and problems of nuclear energy. That nuclear is NOT green, NOT necessary, NOT safe...

Well, Ontario, Canada, and other political leaders, continue onto a new potentially deadly nuclear energy age. To get the attention of the people, media and political leaders of the world, NoNuclearNow is urging a global day against nuclear energy, a new nuclear moratorium, that resulted after the almost catatrophic nuclear disasters at Three-Mile Island, and Chernobyl!

Please join us, with your thoughts and support. More details to follow, in a global scramble to stop nuclear and save the world!



organized a rally, to highlight the dangers and anti-nuclear energy issues, as Ontario, Canada, ramps up to new nuclear age and $26 Billion nuclear spending program,

Ontario Green Party Leader, Frank de Jong, joins calls for nuclear companies to pay for budget overruns

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May 16, 2009: 12.17pm ET

Ontario Green Party Leader, Frank de Jong, joins calls for nuclear companies to pay for budget overruns.

Interestingly, where governments have enacted laws that force companies building nuclear plants to carry the costs of their overruns, many nuclear companies abandon their plans to bid on new plants...

The logic of that is simple and inescapable... Some governments and the nuclear industry are hiding huge cost overruns in their public announcements and projections...

We need to get the word out. Support and contact politicians like Frank de Jong today!

Ontario, Canada moving closer to radioactive sheep!

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2009 May 16: 11.16am ET

Ontario, Canada moving closer to radioactive sheep!

Ontario, Canada is closer to committing $26 Billion (pre-HUGE cost overruns, no doubt) to new nuclear energy power plants. Is there hope to "stop the madness?" Maybe. Some people, media and politicians in the UK are mobilizing, spreading the word about the truth of the dangers of nuclear energy power. In 1986, the Chernobyl nuclear plant exploded --a minor problem, compared to the disaster that emergency workers stopped! Chernobyl released radioactive dust, that governments called safe.

This month, May 2009, reports are coming out that some British farms and sheep are restricted and banned from sale!

And of course, not one sheep or fruit has entered the public food chain?!

This is a big opportunity. We have proven, easy-to-understand evidence of the dangers of modern nuclear energy power. We need to get the word out! Please help us stop the danger of radioactive sheep!

Funny imagery aside. Imagine a real scenario a la Chernobyl (which happened, pro-nuclear people!). If there was ever a nuclear "mishap" --a "minor" one, leaking radioactive material into the air, water of Ontario, or any major city or region of the world?! Ontario sits on the Great Lakes, the largest body of fresh water in the water... Ontario has the largest population of Canada. Ontario is one of the farm centres of Canada... Drop some radioactive dust into the air, the water table, the Great Lakes...

Fluffy British sheep may be a great symbol of our anti-nuclear efforts to reach the public and media, about the dangers of nuclear energy power!

NoNuclearNow.blogspot.com, at May 13, 2009. 11:27am ET

The fluffy sheep may be a symbol of our anti-nuclear efforts to reach the public and media, about the dangers of nuclear energy power!

Thanks to "climateark.com," we found an article from Guardian UK (see below to get web page citation), that there are STILL restrictions on British farms and sheep --restrictions imposed after the radioactive clouds from the Chernobyl nuclear energy reactor explosion, that drifted over parts of the UK, EU and North America in 1986. Yes, since 1986, the British Government has restricted farming use and sheep sales. Radioactive sheep! They are to this day, 2009, still finding and rejecting for sale, sheep that trigger high radioactive levels!

We at NoNuclearNow believe in public and media outreach and education. This issue could be the type of issue that we need in the anti-nuclear movement: "British radioactive sheep in 2009, caused by 1986 Chernobyl disaster." An issue that is simple, easy to understand and explain; an issue that resonates with the minds and hearts of "the people."

That's why we organized the "NoNuclearNow" rally on April 2, 2009. To raise awareness of the dangers of nuclear, we organized the world's first public rally in a pedestrian traffic scramble intersection. A simple, yet creative symbolic moment, to touch minds and hearts.

The British radioative sheep may be a great symbol of the dangers of nuclear?! Shall we name our nuclear sheep monster, "Dolly," like the Frankenstein clone monster of modern medicine?!

Please outreach and let people know: Radioactive farms and sheep exist today. Dangers of nuclear are real, today!

source citations: Guardian UK article: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/may/12/farmers-restricted-chernobyl-disaster

Public protests and rallies are signs of the decline of our democracy and society?

May 12, 2009, 11.18am ET -- Anti-nuclear Greenpeace activists blocking the road to a nuclear reactor in Ontario, Canada. Ontario Clean Air Alliance urging voters not to vote for the Minister responsible for nuclear power. Our own recent NoNuclearNow rally and efforts... Tamils in Toronto, Canada, blocking major roads and even highways last week.

Some people see the recent public rallies in Toronto, Canada, protesting nuclear energy, and Tamil ethnic cleansing, as all great positive signs of the vitality of democracy and freedom of expression. Viva liberty! But we at "NoNuclearNow" wonder if these public protests, instead, are sad examples of the great decline of our modern democracy and society?

Isn't it a sad comment, indeed, that genuine, concerned citizens of the world find it necessary to organize protests, dramatics, and other aggressive public actions, to attract media and public attention to crucial matters --literally, matters of life and death..?!

For the Tamils, trying to stop possible ethnic cleansing; for anti-nuclear groups, trying to stop nuclear disasters that could destroy humanity... Is democracy and public awareness reduced to street theatre, and battling police in the streets of our cities...?

We at "NoNuclearNow" still believe there's hope. We need to take action. Educate and outreach to the uninformed. Inspire people to action, before it's too late to save the planet and humanity!

Hackers breach FAA air traffic control systems! Are nuclear reactor control systems really safer?!

Are we taking it for granted that the computers that control nuclear reactors are safe from hackers?! Other major infrastructure computer systems have PROVEN penetration of their computer systems; resulting in stolen passwords; the planting of malicious codes...

The new proposed nuclear ramp-up in Ontario, Canada and the world, would result in thousands of new nuclear plants around the world. Nuclear plants with computer control centres that could be full of technical problems, and software holes that hackers could exploit. And who is guarding against that?

Below are excerpts from Wall Street Journal report about a USA Transportation Department's inspector general report released on May 9, 2009! that suggests that hackers have penetrated government systems throughout 2008! And given that we are pointing out the danger of such hackers to nuclear reactor control systems, it is ironic that the Wall Street Journal article even notes that electrical grid control systems have dangerous links between administrative and operational computer links, that could result in hackers getting into operational functions of the power grid?!!

Excerpt from Wall Street Journal

Last year, hackers of unspecified origin "took over FAA computers in Alaska" to effectively become agency insiders, and traveled the agency networks to Oklahoma, where they stole the network administrator's password and used it to install malicious codes, the report said. These hackers also gained the ability to obtain 40,000 FAA passwords and other information used to control the administrative network, it said.

In February, another cyber break-in yielded the personal information of 48,000 current and former agency employees.

"The threat of hackers interfering with our air-traffic control systems is not just theoretical; it has already happened," said Republican Rep. Tom Petri of Wisconsin, one of the lawmakers who requested the report. "We must regard the strengthening of our air-traffic control security as an urgent matter."

Tom Kellermann, a vice president at Core Security Technologies, a cybersecurity company, likened the threats cited by the report to the television show "24" in which terrorists hack into and commandeer the FAA's air-traffic control system to crash planes. "The integrity of the data on which ground control is relying can be manipulated, much as seen in '24,'" he said.

Most critical infrastructure, such as the electric grid, have developed links between administrative and operational control systems that indirectly link the control systems to the public Internet, intelligence officials said.

Using legislation to fight nuclear energy proliferation

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We at NoNuclearNow, want to ask you, the people of the world, for your thoughts and ideas on what legislative pressure we can bring to oppose the looming unchecked nuclear energy proliferation in Ontario, Canada and the world. Some examples --some successful, at that, so take heart, everyone!

1 In the USA, some recent proposed nuclear energy reactor projects have been stopped, because legislation has banned taxpayer bailouts of any overruns by new nuclear energy reactor constructions... The nuclear companies themselves suspended their projects! What does that say about the nuclear industry's claims of being efficient, cost-effective, safe...

2 In Canada, anti-nuclear activists are seeking similar legislation amendments to the provincial Ontario Government's Green Act.

3 In Scotland, we were provided with the following comment from Utility Week; a quote that suggests another avenue that the public may use to bring pressure to bear on nuclear energy proliferation: planning and zoning.

"Mike Weir, the Scottish National Party MP for Angus, insisted: "The Scottish Government are entitled to exercise their power under the electricity and planning legislation"."

Nuclear is safe?! Chernobyl radiation cloud went across EU, UK, and even northeast North America

The nuclear industry wants the politicians, media and people of the world, to believe that nuclear power is SAFE! Please let your contacts, family and friends know the simple real, PROVEN fact: the nuclear disaster at the Chernobyl nuclear energy reactor in 1986 released radioactive clouds that were RECORDED and REPORTED by governments and scientists.



These radioative clouds drifted across the EU, the UK, to northeast North America.



We are trying to get the exact statistics about these radiation clouds, and post them here for you... Maybe, some of you --our wonderful readers and supporters of NoNuclearNow-- can help! If you know, send us one of your great emails and let us know what you know!



We understand that radiation levels were up everywhere, where the clouds drifted.



And there is concern that various governments and officials covered up the extent of the danger and consequences this radioactive exposure had on the health of the people of the world!



We heard (unconfirmed) that Scotland's radiation levels were up 10 times over the normal after Chernobyl. We'll try to ask the Honourable Scottish MP Mike Weir, an anti-nuclear proponent, whom we just discovered, may have hit upon an AMAZING admission by a top British nuclear industry exec, that nuclear energy is dangerous!!



We'll be posting more on this later hopefully soon. The Ontario Government's decision on nuclear is looming! And with this nuclear ramp-up, a new looming global nuclear age, that would destroy humanity and civilization.... Please, let's get the information out there! Nuclear is NOT safe. Nuclear is NOT green. Nuclear is Not cost-effective... Nuclear energy is NOT the answer.

Thanks! We are ranked TOP 10 on GOOGLE BLOG SEARCH! --but only 27,000 sites warning of dangers of nuclear!

May 4, 2009: 3.11pm, ET
Thanks everyone. Our blog here, "NoNuclearNow.blogspot.com" is in TOP 10 of Google Blog Search, and TOP 1 of "Related Blogs"

Google Blog results
Results 1 - 10 of about 27,208 for "dangers of nuclear energy." (0.96 seconds)


If we are interpreting this right, it is interesting, and perhaps sad that there are so many, many more blog results for "nuclear energy."

Google Blog results
Results 1 - 10 of about 2,584,364 for "nuclear energy." (1.03 seconds)


Does this mean that we are that far behind on building public and media attention to the issue of the "DANGER" of nuclear energy!?

Thanks again to our NoNuclearNow supporters and visitors, and your concerns and efforts on the issues and dangers of nuclear energy.

Scottish MP, Honourable Mike Weir (SNP) catches British

Posted: 2009 May 4. Original material dated April 15, 2009
Source citation: http://www.snp.org/node/15137

MP Mike Weir catches British nuclear executive, admitting that nuclear is dangerous?!

We are not quite sure of the source of the quote by Scottish MP, the Honourable Mike Weir, below; but we shall post our followup. AND maybe, we'll see if we can an interview with MP Mike Weir. Here's the piece:

Scottish MP cites senior British Nuclear Fuels executive, admitting to dangers of nuclear energy, on BBC Radio!

Speaking on the BBC Radio 4 Today programme, David Bonser said … "the Government have decided to go ahead with nuclear power here in the UK. Now, of course, there’s lots of risks around that…"

Mr Weir said:
"David Bonser’s assessment underlines exactly why Scotland is right to reject the development of dangerous, unnecessary and costly new nuclear power stations."Nuclear is unreliable as well as unnecessary. Installed capacity of renewables in Scotland already exceeds installed capacity of nuclear power. We can achieve secure, clean, low carbon energy by harnessing Scotland's vast green potential, tackling climate change without adding to the burden of toxic radioactive waste.
"The risks and uncertainties of nuclear power, in terms of waste disposal, decommissioning, security and health concerns, or cost, are far too great.