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DoomsdaysCW<p>More fried equipment? Not surprising! <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Japan" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Japan</span></a> to resume trial removal of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/radioactive" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>radioactive</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Fukushima" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Fukushima</span></a> nuclear debris amid safety concerns </p><p>10/25/2024</p><p>Fukushima, Japan - &quot;The operator of Japan&#39;s stricken Fukushima nuclear plant will resume an operation to remove a sample of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HighlyRadioactive" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>HighlyRadioactive</span></a> material next week, reports said Friday, after having suspended the effort over a technical snag.</p><p>&quot;Extracting the estimated 880 tons of highly radioactive fuel and debris inside the former power station remains the most challenging part of decommissioning the facility, which was hit by a catastrophic tsunami in 2011.</p><p>&quot;Radioactivity levels inside are far too high for humans to enter, and last month engineers began inserting an extendable device to try and remove a small sample.</p><p>&quot;However, operator Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) had to halt the procedure after noticing that remote cameras on the apparatus were not beaming back images to the control center.</p><p>&quot;TEPCO on Friday said it would resume the removal on Monday after replacing the cameras with new ones, the Asahi Shimbun daily and other local media reported.</p><p>&quot;TEPCO officials could not immediately be reached to confirm the reports. </p><p>Safety of Fukushima <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/wastewater" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>wastewater</span></a> release in question</p><p>&quot;Three of Fukushima&#39;s six reactors went into meltdown after a tsunami triggered by Japan&#39;s biggest earthquake on record swamped the facility in one of the world&#39;s worst atomic accidents.</p><p>&quot;Japan last year began releasing into the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PacificOcean" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>PacificOcean</span></a> some of the 540 Olympic swimming pools&#39; worth of contaminated reactor cooling water amassed since the catastrophe.&quot;</p><p>Read more:<br /><a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/japan-to-resume-trial-removal-of-radioactive-fukushima-nuclear-debris-amid-safety-concerns/ar-AA1sUYYO" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">msn.com/en-us/news/world/japan</span><span class="invisible">-to-resume-trial-removal-of-radioactive-fukushima-nuclear-debris-amid-safety-concerns/ar-AA1sUYYO</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FukushimaIsntOver" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>FukushimaIsntOver</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoDumping" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NoDumping</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FukushimaWastewater" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>FukushimaWastewater</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TEPCOLies" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>TEPCOLies</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PacificLivesMatter" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>PacificLivesMatter</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WaterIsLife</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RethinkNotRestart" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>RethinkNotRestart</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TEPCO" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>TEPCO</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>[Thread] The next installment from <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/KleeBenally" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>KleeBenally</span></a> &#39;s book, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoSpiritualSurrender" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NoSpiritualSurrender</span></a> </p><p>“The devastation of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearColonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NuclearColonialism</span></a>, which permanently destroys <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Indigenous" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Indigenous</span></a> communities throughout the world, is outright ignored by some of the most devout <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateJustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ClimateJustice</span></a> advocates. They claim <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearEnergy" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NuclearEnergy</span></a> production is also a <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GreenSolution" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>GreenSolution</span></a> to the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ClimateCrisis</span></a>. More than 15,000 abandoned <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/UraniumMines" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>UraniumMines</span></a> are located within the so-called US, mostly in and around Indigenous communities, permanently poisoning <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SacredLands" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SacredLands</span></a> and waters with little to no action being taken to clean up their deadly toxic legacy. There are currently 93 operating <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearReactors" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NuclearReactors</span></a> in the so-called US that supply 20% of the country’s electricity. There are 60,000 tons of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HighlyRadioactive" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>HighlyRadioactive</span></a> spent waste store in concrete dams at <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearPowerPlants" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NuclearPowerPlants</span></a> throughout the country with the waste increasing at a rate of 2,000 tons per year.</p><p>“In 1987 the ‘US’ Congress initiated a controversial project to transport and store almost all of the US’s <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ToxicWaste" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ToxicWaste</span></a> at <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/YuccaMountain" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>YuccaMountain</span></a> located about 100 miles northwest of so-called <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LasVegas" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>LasVegas</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Nevada" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Nevada</span></a>. Yucca Mountan has been held holy to the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Paiute" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Paiute</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WesternShoshone" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WesternShoshone</span></a> Nations since time immemorial. In January 2010 the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ObamaAdminstration" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ObamaAdminstration</span></a> approved a $54 billion taxpayer loan in a guarantee program for new nuclear reactor construction, three times what Bush previously promised in 2005. In April 2022, the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BidenAdministration" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>BidenAdministration</span></a> government bailout to ‘rescue’ nuclear power plants at risk for closing. A <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Colonial" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Colonial</span></a> government representative stated, ‘US nuclear power contributes more than half of our <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CarbonFree" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>CarbonFree</span></a> electricity, and President Biden is committed to keeping these plants active to reach our <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CleanEnergy" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>CleanEnergy</span></a> goals.’ </p><p>“They, along with Climate Justice activiists, cite nuclear energy as necessary to combat <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GlobalWarming" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>GlobalWarming</span></a>, all while ignoring the devastating percent impacts <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndigenousPeoples" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>IndigenousPeoples</span></a> have faced. There is nothing clean about energy produced from nuclear colonialism. From its weapons (including <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DepletedUranium" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>DepletedUranium</span></a>) to its <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Mining" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Mining</span></a> and its waste; Indigenous bodies, lands, and waters continue to be sacrificed to heat water with radioactive materials which creates steam that moves generators to change batteries made from <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Lithium" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Lithium</span></a> extracted from other Indigenous sacred lands so <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Teslas" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Teslas</span></a> can mo you forward into a ‘just’ climate future.</p><p>“A green economy sustains and advances colonial progress, which means mitigated selective and ongoing destruction of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MotherEarth" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>MotherEarth</span></a>.”</p><p>Pages 139-140</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndigenousAnarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>IndigenousAnarchy</span></a><br /><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Ecosystem" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Ecosystem</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HaulNo" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>HaulNo</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DefendTheSacred" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>DefendTheSacred</span></a><br /><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CorporateColonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>CorporateColonialism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoDAPL" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NoDAPL</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CriminalizingDissent" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>CriminalizingDissent</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WaterIsLife</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateDefenders" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ClimateDefenders</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoCopperMiningWithoutConsent" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NoCopperMiningWithoutConsent</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoLithiumMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NoLithiumMining</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CorporateColonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>CorporateColonialism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoMiningWithoutConsent" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NoMiningWithoutConsent</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LithiumMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>LithiumMining</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CopperMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>CopperMining</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Greenwashng" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Greenwashng</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearWeapons" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NuclearWeapons</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RestInPowerKleeBenally" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>RestInPowerKleeBenally</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RIPKleeBenally" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>RIPKleeBenally</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/StopCanyonMine" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>StopCanyonMine</span></a></p>