NH #550: Holtec Pilgrim Radioactive Water Dump into Cape Cod Bay? NOPE! Diane Turco, Cape Downwinders

Holtec Pilgrim Radioactive Water Dump is coming up against serious community pushback.  They're hearing from Cape Downwinders (logo above), Pilgrim Watch, and government reps.
(Poster above is by graphic designer and educator Lance Hidy.  Signed posters are available as a fundraiser for Cape Downwinders if you scroll down HERE)


This Week's Featured Interview:

• Holtec Pilgrim Radioactive Water Dump - is an action that the decommissioning company has planned for the radioactive water from the reactor spent fuel pool.  But Holtec has been receiving ever-growing pushback from Massachusetts representatives and the public.  Diane Turco is Director of the Cape Downwinders on Cape Cod, a group that’s been fighting against the Pilgrim nuclear power reactor and its impact on the community for more than 40 years.  She gives us both the historical perspective and an update on what's planned for a public meeting with Holtec on January 24.
• CAPE DOWNWINDERS SPEAK-OUT
  January 24 at 5:30 pm EST at the Plymouth Town Hall.
  At 6:30 pm, the Nuclear Decommissioning Citizens Advisory Panel will meet in the same location.  HOLTEC REPS WILL BE ON THE PANEL. 

Numnutz of the Week (for Outstanding Nuclear Boneheadedness):

The Japanese government and TEPCO will say almost anything to create the illusion that everything is OK in Fukushima.  They want people to return to live there despite the radiation.  And now they're touting that there's absolutely nothing wrong with them dumping 1,280,000 tons of radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean.  As for their wiggle-worded press releases and "news" stories -- yowzah!  Talk about doubletalk! 

Links:

• Can Small Modular Nuclear Reactors Help Mitigate Climate Change? by Arjun Makhijani and M.V. Ramana  (Short answer:  NO!)
• Nuclear Power Doesn't Belong in the Green New Deal - Linda Pentz Gunter of Beyond Nuclear
• Our Oceans Are Not Sewers - Arnie Gundersen of Fairewinds Energy Education
• Happy Birthday to Hiroshima survivor Setsuko Thurlow.  Here is a short film of her passionate call to action, delivered on the day that the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons was adopted at the United Nations – 7 July 2017.