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Fall 2016 Quarterly Newsletter

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Cover & Back Page

Federal Nuclear Waste Site Search Team Lampooned at Minnesota Hearing: Energy
Department’s “Consent-Based” Plan Slammed
UN Working Group Calls for Negotiations in Pursuit of Nuclear Weapons Treaty Ban

Page 1

Ominous-Looking Unidentified Object Found on Lake Superior Beach
UN Working Group Calls for Negotiations in Pursuit of Nuclear Weapons Treaty Ban
(Continued from Back Cover)
Plans for Increased Drinking Water Contamination Raise Alarm

Page 2

Accident at Deep Underground Test Project Dispersed Plutonium, Exposed Workers:
Cleanup to Cost Over $2 Billion
Groups File Lawsuit for Injunction to Keep Liquid Radioactive Waste Shipments
Off Highways
Consumer Group Says Virginia Reactor Being Built Unlawfully

Page 3

NUCLEAR SHORTS

Page 4

Nuclear Know-Nothings on Campaign Trail
Wild Turkey with H-Bomb: Failed Coup Raises Calls for Denuclearlization

Page 5

Fukushima: Consequences Seen From Japan to California
Montreal Declaration for a Nuclear Fission-Free World

Page 6

(Why) I Am an Anarchist (By John Heid)
Canadian Whistleblowers, Public and Environment: Unprotected; Canadian
Nuclear Industry: Protected
Taking Lead from Nukewatch, More Experts Calling for Abolition of Land-based
Nuclear-Armed Missiles

Page 7

Federal Dump Search Team Lampooned in Minneapolis (Continued from Cover)

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South Australia Citizens Reject International Rad Waste Dump

Winter Quarterly 2016

A Citizen’s Jury in South Australia delivered a blow to a plan to construct a radioactive waste dump in their state. Importing 138,000 metric tons of high-level radioactive waste and 390,000 cubic meters of intermediate level nuclear waste had been among government recommendations in a report by the South Australia Nuclear Fuel Cycle Royal Commission. Premier Jay Weatherill convened a citizen-led jury to gain public input into the proposal. A majority of the jury members voted that “under no circumstances” would they support importing the waste. “This is a strong decision from a randomly selected and very diverse group of South Australians who have had the benefit of studying the Royal Commission Report … It was positive to hear the jurors acknowledging the need for [Aboriginal] Traditional Owner’s voices to be heard,” said the chairperson of Yankunytjatjara Native Title Aboriginal Corporation, Karina Lester.

Two primary concerns emerged as reasons for opposition to the dump: mistrust of the government, and lack of aboriginal consent. Some of the jury felt as if they were part of a process that was created to manufacture consent for the Royal Commission recommendations. Conflicts of interest were apparent when the government appointed nuclear advocates to head the Royal Commission who, in turn relied solely on a report co-authored by a pro-nuclear lobbying group ARUIS (Association for Regional and International Underground Storage). Premier Weatherill is expected to decide on whether to respect the Jury’s verdict by the end of this year. “There’s no doubt that there’s a massive issue of trust in government, I could sense that,” he said. “That’s why we started the whole citizen’s jury process, because there is no way forward unless we overcome those issues.” His decision will have an impact on whether the mistrust of the government is affirmed.

—Nuclear Monitor, Nov. 9; No Dump Alliance, Nov. 7; Adelaide Now, Nov. 6, 2016

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Summer 2016 Quarterly Newsletter

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How you can help! Letter to Nukewatch supporters.

Listen to our anti-nuclear playlist! (see “Prince Tops Our Anti-Nuclear Playlist,” Page 7)

“1999,” Prince
“Ronnie, Talk to Russia,” Prince, 1981
“99 Red Balloons,” Nena, 1983
“Antinuclear,” Miguel Ríos, 1983
“No More Weapons,” Steel Pulse, 2004
“Point Hope,” Indigo Girls, 2005
“The Priests of the Golden Bull,” Buffy Sainte-Marie, 1992
“Breathing,” Kate Bush, 1980
“Party at Ground Zero,” Fishbone, 1985
“Atomic Nightmare,” Talbot Brothers of Bermuda, 1987
“Future’s So Bright I Gotta Wear Shades,” Timbuk3, 1986
“So Long Mom, I’m Off to Drop the Bomb,” Tom Lehrer, 1965
Nuclear Sí, Aviador Dro, 1979

Cover & Back Page

Who’s Behind Pro-Nuclear Legislation? Industry Group Funds Repeal of Wisconsin’s
Restrictions on New Reactor Construction
Radiation Harm Deniers? Pro-Nuclear Environmentalists and the Chernobyl Death Toll

Page 1

EPA Proposes Shocking Thousand-Fold Increase in Radioactivity Allowed in
Drinking Water
North Korea Pledges No-First-Use of Nuclear Weapons, Following China and India
–So Could Obama (Editorial)
Locals “Shouldn’t Fear” Waste from Wisconsin Isotope Factory

Page 2

Test Drilling for Possible Rad Waste Disposal, Rejected in North Dakota, Faces
Opposition in South Dakota
Who’s Behind Pro-Nuclear Legislation? (Continued from Cover)

Page 3

NUCLEAR SHORTS
Lake Superior Barrels: Red Cliff Will Seek Funds for Repeat of Knife River Survey
Military Video Shows New US Nuclear Bomb Burrows Underground

Page 4

Fukushima Radiation Continues to Spread
Waste Fuel Fire at Fukushima Avoided by Luck; US Waste Vulnerable, Panel Says
Regulatory Insiders Warn of Generic Reactor Flaw, Call for Shutting Nearly All
US Reactors

Page 5

Nuclear’s Unfulfilled Promise: Dumping Bellafonte’s Four Unbuilt Reactors

Page 6

Resisting Nuclear Power & Weapons
Radiation Harm Deniers (Continued from Back Cover)

Page 7

“Opportunity Cost” Killing Nuclear Power Future
Major Indian Firm Quits Twin Reactor Project, Cites “Investment Exposure”
Prince Tops Our Anti-Nuclear Playlist
Cambridge City Council Votes to Divest $1 Billion from Nuclear Weapons

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