Join the Campaign to Monitor Nuclear Contamination in What We’re Eating
EON’s Mary Beth Brangan moderates this edition of the Fukushima Fallout Awareness Network’s (FFAN.us) conference call series, BYE BYE BECQUERELS: No Radioactive Waste in Our Food.
In this segment of the on-going conference call series, Mary Beth, Cindy Folkers of BeyondNuclear.org and Kimberly Roberson, founder/director of FFAN, explain the campaign to set clear radioactive food contamination limit standards, and for independent monitoring of continuing U.S. food contamination from the on-going spread of Fukushima fallout around the world – not to mention ‘routine releases’ from America’s own 104 nuclear power plants.
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Urban planner Torgen Johnson and his family live near the San Onofre nuclear plant. A restart of the damaged facility would threaten their safety.
Video # 7 in the SHUTDOWN: The Case Against San Onofre: ‘Preview Interview’ series produced by EON in co-operation with WomensEnergyMatters.org. Plus an update from Myla Reson on NRC’s current timeline re San Onofre.
The High Risks of Restart
Urban Planner and father of three talks about the potentially devastating effect a nuclear accident at the San Onofre nuclear reactors would have on the ‘built environment,’ the real estate, industry, agriculture and infrastructure of Southern California…not to mention his family and millions of others in the evacuation zone.
I just spoke with NRC public affairs guy Victor Dricks
Dricks says:
1) The NRC will not take any action on Edison’s License Amendment application prior to June 17 – and that restart would not occur prior to the NRC’s decision on the License Amendment.
2) The next public meeting in Southern California will be for the purpose of discussing the results of the Confirmatory Action Letter (CAL) inspection – and the results of the technical evaluation of Edison’s restart pllan. The decision on restart WILL NOT be discussed or announced at the next public meeting in SoCal.
3) The NRC expects the meeting to take place sometime in mid-June – they will give the public as much prior notice as possible
I asked how much prior notice they’re required to provide – he said 14 days – but they’ve been having much difficulty finding a venue large enough to accomodate 1,000 people – he said they may be force to have the meeting in Irvine or San Diego. if they find a large enough venue they may be forced due to circumstances to shorten the 14 day notice requirement.
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“A common denominator, in every single nuclear accident — a nuclear plant or on a nuclear submarine — is that before the specialists even know what has happened, they rush to the media saying, ‘There’s no danger to the public.’ They do this before they themselves know what has happened because they are terrified that the public might react violently, either by panic or by revolt.” ~ Jacque Cousteau, 1989
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Video # 6 in the SHUTDOWN ‘Preview Interview’ series produced by EON in co-operation with WomensEnergyMatters.org.
Gary & Lauri Headrick, founders of SanClementeGreen.org tell why they are devoting their lives to seeing that the crippled San Onofre nuclear power plant is shutdown for good. To get involved: SanOnofreSafety.org
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The evacuation areas surrounding the Diablo Canyon and San Onofre nuclear reactors overlap L.A. and San Diego dense population centers. Both nuclear facilities are in tsunami zones and located near earthquake faults. The San Onofre reactors have the country's worst safety record. A growing state-wide movement wants them to be permanently shut down.
Nuclear Free California Movement Grows
This is edition presents historic videos of the Rally and Berkeley City Council vote on the resolution to call for the shutting down of California’s nuclear power reactors and a transition to clean, sustainable energy sources. Go to NuclearFreeCalifornia.org for resources to help organize your community on this issue.
Nuclear Free California Rally 6-19-2012
Berkeley Rally for a Nuclear-Free California [ This video is the whole one hour rally. Links to short individual speaker clips are below for your convenience. ]
Citizens rally outside Berkeley City Hall before City Council considers a resolution to decommission California nuclear plants and transition to green non-nuclear generation sources. Speakers include Bob Meola, Member of the Berkeley Peace & Justice Commission and primary author of the resolution; Dan Ellsberg, former Department of Defense strategic analyst who released The Pentagon Papers and Fellow at the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation; Dan Hirsch, President of Committee to Bridge the Gap and former Director of the Program on Nuclear Policy at U.C. Santa Cruz ; Eco-philosopher and author Joanna Macy; and Jackie Cabasso of Western States Legal Foundation and Nuclear Free California.
The troubled San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station has the worst safety record in the country and has been shut since January 2012 due to malfunctioning steam replacement generators that may keep it permanently shut. Both San Onfore and the Diablo Canyon facility are in earthquake fault zones, and have a long history of not taking seismic vulnerability seriously. California’s numbers of intensely irradiated fuel rods in densely packed onsite pools are among the highest in the country.
Both the rally and the resolution were sponsored by the Berkeley Peace & Justice Commission.
Close California’s Nukes – Berkeley City Council
6-19-2012 – The Berkeley City Council passes a resolution to decommission California nuclear plants and transition to green non-nuclear generation sources that asks Governor Brown to call upon the California Public Utilities Commission to take action; urges President Barack Obama and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to reverse their support of nuclear power, stop loan guarantees to the nuclear energy industry, shut down nuclear facilities operating in seismically active areas of the U.S., establish a moratorium on building new nuclear reactors and investing in clean, renewable energy; and insists that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission withhold license renewal for Diablo Canyon and San Onofre Nuclear Power plants until seismic issues and offsite permanent storage are resolved.
Jackie Cabasso – – Nuclear Free California Rally
Jackie Cabasso of Western States Legal Foundation and Nuclear Free California speaks at the 6-19-2012 Nuclear Free California Rally in support of a Berkeley City Council resolution to shut down California’s nuclear reactors at San Onofre and Diablo Canyon.
Bob Meola – Nuclear Free California Rally
Bob Meola, Member of the Berkeley Peace & Justice Commission and author of the resolution. speaks at the 6-19-2012 Nuclear Free California Rally in support of a Berkeley City Council resolution to shut down California’s nuclear reactors at San Onofre and Diablo Canyon. Both the rally and the resolution were sponsored by the Berkeley Peace and Justice Commission.
Joanna Macy – Nuclear Free California Rally
Eco-philosopher Joanna Macy speaks at the 6-19-2012 Nuclear Free California Rally in support of a Berkeley City Council resolution to shut down California’s nuclear reactors at San Onofre and Diablo Canyon.
Dan Hirsch – Nuclear Free California Rally
Dan Hirsch, President of Committee to Bridge the Gap and former Director of the Program on Nuclear Policy at U.C. Santa Cruz , speaks at the 6-19-2012 Nuclear Free California Rally in support of a Berkeley City Council resolution to shut down California’s nuclear reactors at San Onofre and Diablo Canyon.
Daniel Ellsberg – Nuclear Free California Rally
Dan Ellsberg, former Department of Defense strategic analyst who released The Pentagon Papers and Fellow at the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, speaks 6-19-2012 at the Nuclear Free California Rally in support of a Berkeley City Council resolution to shut down California’s nuclear reactors at San Onofre and Diablo Canyon. Both the rally and the resolution were sponsored by the Berkeley Peace & Justice Commission.
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The State has an Excess of Generating Capacity WITHOUT San Onofre and Diablo Canyon.
Founder/Director of Womens Energy Matters describes her discoveries as a professional intervenor on behalf of the public interest at the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), private utilities’ resistance to energy efficiency, conservation and clean energy technologies in a state that already has an excess of power – without nuclear reactors.
This chart was developed by WEM based on official data.
SHUTDOWN ‘Preview Interviews’ are produced in cooperation with Womens Energy Matters. They include former nuclear executive S. David Freemen; SanOnofreSafety.org Founder, Donna Gilmore; San Clemente Green co-founders Lauri & Gary Headricks; Emergency Response Expert Deanna Polk; Investigative Reporter Harvey Wasserman; Urban Planner Torgen Johnson; WomensEnergyMatters.org Founder Barbara George and others-to-be-posted. Stay tuned to this blog and our YouTube Channel here
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