As promised, this week's #FollowFriday list are my favorite #NoNukes / #NoWar accounts. Follow them if you want news about #Fukushima, #NuclearDisarmament, and other #Nuclear news!

@123456Moto
(My lifeline here on Mastodon. Posts Leilani Athenaire’s tweets and news from #Japan)

@SZKN29 x
Illustrator, picture book author, care worker. I mainly cover Futaba District, Fukushima Prefecture on foot. A total of 410 km was covered. Tokyo Shimbun "Drawing Invisible Radioactivity"

@YourAnonRiots
(Has timely #Fukushima posts!)
In the name of all #digital warriors, we warriors promise to participate in the #Anonymous.CC3 #HackThePlanet #AnonOps #infosec #Antifa

@brianpjcronin
(Covers #IndianPoint and #Holtec)
#Environmental Reporter for The Highlands Current: An award-winning, non-profit, independent newspaper in New York's Hudson Valley. I also teach journalism at Marist College. Not actually a cat.

@ausgestrahlt
#Atomkraft? Nein Danke! Wir streiten für eine Welt ohne #Atomenergie.
Nuclear power? No thank you! We are fighting for a world without nuclear energy.

@AntiAtomNetzTrier
We, #AntiAtom #AntiAKW moving people from #Trier and the surrounding area, are committed to the decommissioning of all nuclear plants and an ecological #Energiewende (decentralized and democratic, i.e. in the hands of citizens!). We oppose the French repository project #Bure in Lorraine with the resistance house #BureZoneLibre and for the closure of the #AKW #Cattenom. In addition, we support the switch to #Ökostrom|providers without #Atom or #Kohle|corporations as well as to corresponding banks.

@bojacobs
Nuclear historian at the #Hiroshima Peace Institute. Book - Nuclear Bodies: The Global Hibakusha - Yale 2022. I work on the global human & ecological harm from nuclear production, nuclear weapon tests, reactor accidents. I examine the impacts on communities, families & emotions; long-term ecological presence of fallout #radionuclides; the legacy of our #NuclearWaste to 1,000s of generations of our descendants.
#histodons #nuclear #Hiroshima #peace

@CNDuk
The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. Find out more: cnduk.org

@nukes_of_hazard
Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation. Working to limit & eventually eliminate the nuclear threat through Congressional & public outreach.

@AtomicAnalyst
Editor and co-author, "Atomic Audit: The Costs and Consequences of US Nuclear Weapons Since 1940" • Nonresident Senior Fellow, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. I write primarily about nuclear weapons, nuclear weapons history and policy, and the nuclear "Football."

@Achim
Energy historian, with a focus on Soviet and Russian nuclear programmes. PhD candidate at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden.

@RosannaFarboel
PhD in History, Researcher at Lund University
Interests: #coldwarhistory #nuclearculture #nuclearhistory #nuclearhumanities #mediahistory #urbanhistory #memorystudies #historyofscienceandtechnology #digitalhistory #architecture #ruins #shelters #imaginaries #environmentalhistory #transnationalhistory

@armscontrolnow
(bot)
The Arms Control Association, founded in 1971, is a nonpartisan membership organization dedicated to promoting public understanding of and support for effective arms control policies.

@joshuafrank
Journalist. Montana kid. Editor at #CounterPunch.org. #𝘼𝙩𝙤𝙢𝙞𝙘𝘿𝙖𝙮𝙨, published by Haymarket Books, out now!

Plan to discharge water into #HudsonRiver from closed #NuclearPlant sparks uproar

The #IndianPoint nuclear plant along the Hudson River is at the center of a controversy two years after it was shut down

By MICHAEL HILL Associated Press
June 20, 2023, 5:07 PM

"But opponents along the river question the health and safety claims. They say the releases of #radioactive water could be a step back for a once notoriously polluted river that is now a popular summer attraction for sailors, #kayakers and #swimmers.

"Communities along the river have already passed resolutions opposing the discharges, and an online petition has gathered more than 440,000 signatures. On Tuesday, a bill sponsored by two Hudson Valley Democrats that would ban #radiological discharges into the river was approved by state Assembly.

"'It leaves a bad taste in your mouth ... the idea that we would be polluting our beautiful Hudson River with waste when we’ve spent so many years trying to clean it up. This shouldn’t be a dumping ground,' Assembly member Dana Levenberg said at a state Capitol rally for her bill before the debate.

"The bill, approved by the state Senate earlier this month, is opposed by some labor officials, who say it could interrupt the decommissioning and cause layoffs.

"The bill will be sent to Gov. #KathyHochul, who has not said whether she supports the measure."

#WaterIsLife #WaterPollution #Nuclear

Read more:
https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/plan-discharge-water-hudson-river-closed-nuclear-plant-100255780

In New York City, the NRDC campaigned for years to prematurely close Indian Point nuclear plant.

They succeeded in shutting down 25% of all NYC electricity, and here is the impact to the New York State grid.

They have a trophy kill tweet commemorating the effort.
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RT @NRDC
It's been an honor for NRDC to work with our tireless partners and advocates who have fought long and hard to close #IndianPoint, to push back on fossil fuels, and t…
https://twitter.com/NRDC/status/1388206590864629760

KEEP PUTTING ON THE PRESSURE on #Japan/#TEPCO

#HudsonRiver Spared Radioactive Dump From Defunct NY Nuclear Plant

The plan to reportedly dump upwards of 1 million gallons into the Hudson River was scrapped this week after thunderous pushback

by NBC New York Staff and The AP, Published April 14, 202

“Following conversations with key state stakeholders, who wish to allow for additional public education, we have decided not to go forward with the planned discharge in early May,” the company's communications director, Patrick O'Brien, wrote to plant's decommissioning board on Thursday."
#NoNukes #NoDumping #Fukushima #FukushimaWater #IndianPoint #NoNewNukes #WaterIsLife #Holtec #HoltecLies #TEPCOLies

Read more:
https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/hudson-river-spared-from-radioactive-dump-at-defunct-ny-nuclear-plant/4241535/

Additional violations by #Holtec cited in #IndianPoint decommissioning

by Luke Dougherty, 4-4-2023

"In a March 2023 letter, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission released a notice sent to Holtec International, providing details of two additional violations during their decommissioning of the Indian Point nuclear power plant. Although these violations were rated low safety significance by the NRC, we believe all violations are significant because they expose weaknesses in Holtec’s management of the decommissioning.

"These violations include a failure by Holtec to identify overflows of radioactive liquids from storage tanks, and after identifying the spills, failing to test the radiological levels in required areas within the plant. These overflows were first discovered in the spring of 2022, but went unreported to the public until March of 2023 because #NRC inspections happen infrequently."
#HudsonRiver #HoltecLies #NoNukes #NoNewNukes #WaterIsLife #NoDumping

Read more:
https://www.riverkeeper.org/blogs/indian-point-blogs/additional-violations-by-holtec-cited-in-indian-point-decommissioning/

NIRS: "Indian Point Unit 1's spent fuel pool was known to be leaking since 1992, and leaks from the plant have been leaching into the river. The radioactive isotopes that have been identified include hydrogen-3 (tritium), strontium-90, cobalt-60, cesium-137, and nickel-63."

#NoNukes #NoDumping #WaterIsLife #NewYork #HudsonRiver #IndianPoint #HoltecLies #Holtec

PDF link:
https://www.nirs.org/wp-content/uploads/closeindianpoint/water-and-indianpoint.pdf

What #Holtec isn't telling us is that the water contains more than just #Tritium and Boron... Lots of other radioactive "goodies," including Cobalt!

Holtec Says It Will Discharge #IndianPoint Water in May

By Brian PJ Cronin, April 7, 2023

"Holtec said that the water would be sampled, monitored and filtered before it was released, although it will still contain boron and tritium. That will leave 265,000 gallons in Unit 2, which has been emptied of spent fuel rods, and 310,000 gallons in Unit 3, which is scheduled to be emptied of rods by November. Unit 1’s wastewater was released into the river in 2009."

#NoNukes #NewYork #HoltecLies #WaterIsLife #HudsonRiver #HudsonRiverWatershed #HudsonRiverValley

Read more: https://highlandscurrent.org/2023/04/07/holtec-says-it-will-discharge-indian-point-water-in-may/

From 2016. The lovely folks running #IndianPoint never cared if #radioactive material polluted the #HudsonRiver. And now they want to dump more rad water?!!

‘Uncontrollable radioactive flow’ from Indian Point continues to contaminate the Hudson River

by Nicole Jewel, February 2016

"No matter where you live, 'uncontrollable radioactive flow' is not a phrase that you want to hear in relation to your local water source. Unfortunately for some towns located on the Hudson River, the Huffington Post reports that radioactive elements from the Indian Point nuclear power plant are most likely seeping right into the waterway and potentially contaminating the drinking water systems of several towns located along the river route."
#NoNukes #NewYork #HoltecLies #WaterIsLife

Read more: https://inhabitat.com/uncontrollable-radioactive-flow-from-indian-point-continues-to-contaminate-the-hudson-river/

Climate supervillains: @NRDC
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RT @NRDC
It's been an honor for NRDC to work with our tireless partners and advocates who have fought long and hard to close #IndianPoint, to push back on fossil fuels, and to move New York forward on #CleanEnergy. 🎊 https://on.nrdc.org/2QFL7qU
https://twitter.com/NRDC/status/1388206590864629760

Well, well, well -- guess what -- there's more than just #Tritium in that water -- just like with #Fukushima! #Corporations like #TEPCO and #Holtec LOVE to DOWNPLAY what's really in the water they want to dump!

#RocklandCounty Passes Resolution Against Dumping #RadioactiveWater in the #HudsonRiver; Second This Week

Published Mar 9, 2023 Categories

"In a 16-0 vote, the Rockland County Legislature unanimously approved a resolution calling on Governor Hochul and relevant agencies to stop Holtec International from dumping #toxic waste into the Hudson River. Rockland became the second county in the Hudson Valley region to oppose Holtec’s polluting plan, just two days after the #Westchester Board of Legislators took similar action.

"Holtec International, the company in charge of decommissioning the #IndianPoint Nuclear Plant, wants to dump one million gallons of toxic wastewater from the plant’s spent fuel pools into the Hudson River. The company’s waste has several contaminants [NOT JUST TRITIUM LIKE HOLTEC KEEPS SAYING] including #tritium, a radioactive isotope that can lead to cancer when inhaled, ingested or absorbed through the skin in large quantities. Seven communities and over 100,000 people rely on drinking water from the Hudson River.

"Santosh Nandabalan, Senior New York Organizer with Food & Water Watch issued the following statement: 'To allow the immense discharge of toxic, radioactive waste into New Yorkers’ drinking water is to privilege corporate expediency over public health. One by one, Hudson Valley authorities are taking a stand against Holtec’s ludicrously dangerous proposal. Governor Hochul must take immediate action to safeguard public health and stop Holtec’s scheme.'"

#HudsonRiver #HudsonRiverValley #HudsonValley #Fukushima #NewYork #Japan #NoDumping #WaterIsLife #StopTEPCO #NoNukes #TEPCOLies #HoltecLies

Read more: https://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/2023/03/09/rockland-county-passes-resolution-against-dumping-radioactive-water-in-the-hudson-river-second-this-week/

Assuming that there's ONLY tritium in the water, it can be stored in a closed-loop system until it becomes harmless (it has a half-life of 12 years, and turns into helium in 24 years). Unless #Holtec is lying about what's in it. And by the way, there's a helium shortage, so why not capture it, rather than dumping it and harming the ecosystem!

Dumping 1M gallons of radioactive water in #HudsonRiver is ‘best option,’ per #IndianPoint nuclear plant owner (Holtec)

By Rosemary Misdary, Feb 17, 2023

"Environmental groups and residents are also concerned this could harm their community, as the Hudson River is already a federally designated toxic Superfund site. Rich Burroni, Holtec’s site vice president for Indian Point, agreed to give the community at least a month's notice before any radioactive discharge into the Hudson River begins."
#WaterIsLife #NoNukes #NoDumping

https://gothamist.com/news/dumping-radioactive-water-hudson-river-best-option-indian-point-nuclear-plant-owner-holtec

Democracy Now: Indian Point Nuclear Plant Owner Plans to Dump Radioactive Waste Water into Hudson River

February 23, 2023

"Here in New York, environmental groups and community members are sounding the alarm after #Holtec International, the owner of the decommissioned Indian Point nuclear facility, said it plans to dump some 1 million gallons of #radioactive water into the Hudson River as soon as August. The water contains #tritium, a byproduct of nuclear fission that cannot be filtered out of water and which could lead to a host of negative environmental and health effects. The advocacy group #Riverkeeper said, 'It’s time to draw the line against using the Hudson as a dumping ground.'"

#NoNukes #NoDumping #WaterIsLife #NewYork #HudsonRiver #IndianPoint

Where is the left’s outrage about the absolute surge in greenhouse gas emissions and air pollution that resulted from the shut down of Indian Point?

It was replaced almost entirely with gas!

And it was a union plant they shut down!
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RT @nuclearny
April 30 marks the one-year anniversary of New York’s premature closure of the #IndianPoint nuclear plant. Data collected by the electricity regulator @NewYorkISO show that its electricity …
https://twitter.com/nuclearny/status/1520089382954356736