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DoomsdaysCWSince the 2011 <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Fukushima" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Fukushima</a> accident, Japan has restarted 14 <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearReactors" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#NuclearReactors</a> 1/10/2025"Japanese utilities restarted two additional nuclear reactors in 2024 that had been suspended from operations in response to the 2011 <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FukushimaDaiichi" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#FukushimaDaiichi</a> accident, taking the total number of restarted reactors to 14 since the accident."In November, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TohokuElectricPowerCo" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#TohokuElectricPowerCo</a>. restarted its 796-megawatt (MW) <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Onagawa" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Onagawa</a> Unit 2 reactor, and in December <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ChugokuElectricPowerCo" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#ChugokuElectricPowerCo</a>. restarted its <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Shimane" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Shimane</a> Unit 2 (789 MW). Onagawa is the nuclear power plant located closest to the epicenter of the March 2011 <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/earthquake" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#earthquake</a> and tsunami."Most of the restarted reactors have been pressurized water reactors (PWR) located in western Japan. Onagawa Unit 2 and Shimane Unit 2, by contrast, are the first boiling water reactors (BWR) to be restarted. Onagawa Unit 2 is also the first reactor in the eastern part of the country to be restarted. Japan’s nuclear regulator prioritized the restart of PWRs due to public safety concerns regarding BWR technology, which is the design of the Fukushima Daiichi units."Japan suspended its nuclear fleet from 2013 to 2015 for mandatory safety checks and upgrades following the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi accident. Before the accident, 54 commercial nuclear reactors were operating in Japan, and nuclear power accounted for approximately 30% of the country’s electricity generation. Nuclear restarts have proceeded slowly since the first two units (<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Sendai" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Sendai</a> Units 1 and 2) were restarted in 2015. Restarts have been slow due to a significantly more stringent safety inspection and authorization process established after the accident and local court injunctions emerging from ongoing public safety concerns in some regions. Public support for restarts has been growing in Japan recently, however."Under the current restart process, once regulatory approvals have been granted, the local municipality and prefectural governments are consulted prior to restart. In addition to the 14 reactors already restarted, three more units (namely, the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/KashiwazakiKariwa" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#KashiwazakiKariwa</a> Unit 6 and Unit 7 and the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TokaiDaini" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#TokaiDaini</a> unit) have received regulatory approval to restart but have yet to do so. Tohoku Electric Power announced in 2018 that Onagawa Unit 1 would be decommissioned rather than upgraded, but the utility plans to seek approval to restart Onagawa Unit 3. Restarting another 10 units is under regulatory review."The suspension of Japan's nuclear fleet after the Fukushima accident significantly increased dependence on natural gas, oil, and coal imports to make up for lost domestic nuclear generation. It also significantly increased the installed capacity of solar photovoltaic generation in the country, according to data from Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry. Japan has limited domestic fossil fuel resources and imports virtually all the fossil fuels it uses. Consequently, Japan is the world's second-largest importer of liquefied natural gas (LNG) after China and the third-largest importer of coal."As part of Japan’s sixth long-term energy plan, last updated in October 2021, the central government called for the nuclear share of the country’s electricity generation to reach 20%–22% by 2030. Nuclear power accounted for about 6% of Japan’s electricity generation in 2023. A draft of Japan’s seventh long-term energy plan was released on December 17, 2024, and says nuclear power should account for 20% of Japan’s energy supply in 2040."Japan’s current policy intends to maximize the use of existing reactors by restarting as many units as possible and extending the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LicensedOperatingLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#LicensedOperatingLife</a> beyond the current 60-year limit."Source: <a href="http://gasprocessingnews.com/news/2025/01/since-the-2011-fukushima-accident-japan-has-restarted-14-nuclear-reactors/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no">http://gasprocessingnews.com/news/2025/01/since-the-2011-fukushima-accident-japan-has-restarted-14-nuclear-reactors/</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoNukesForAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#NoNukesForAI</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RenewablesNow" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#RenewablesNow</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RethinkNotRestart" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#RethinkNotRestart</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoMoreFukushimas" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#NoMoreFukushimas</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TEPCOLies" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#TEPCOLies</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/KEPCOLies" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#KEPCOLies</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoNukes" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#NoNukes</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearPlants" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#NuclearPlants</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearPowerCorruptionAndLies" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#NuclearPowerCorruptionAndLies</a>

DoomsdaysCW[Thread] The next installment from <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/KleeBenally" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#KleeBenally</a> 's book, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoSpiritualSurrender" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#NoSpiritualSurrender</a> “The devastation of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearColonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#NuclearColonialism</a>, which permanently destroys <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Indigenous" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Indigenous</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">#ClimateJustice</a> advocates. They claim <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearEnergy" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#NuclearEnergy</a> production is also a <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GreenSolution" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#GreenSolution</a> to the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#ClimateCrisis</a>. More than 15,000 abandoned <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/UraniumMines" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#UraniumMines</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">#SacredLands</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">#NuclearReactors</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">#HighlyRadioactive</a> spent waste store in concrete dams at <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearPowerPlants" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#NuclearPowerPlants</a> throughout the country with the waste increasing at a rate of 2,000 tons per year.“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">#ToxicWaste</a> at <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/YuccaMountain" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#YuccaMountain</a> located about 100 miles northwest of so-called <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LasVegas" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#LasVegas</a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Nevada" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Nevada</a>. Yucca Mountan has been held holy to the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Paiute" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Paiute</a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WesternShoshone" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#WesternShoshone</a> Nations since time immemorial. In January 2010 the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ObamaAdminstration" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#ObamaAdminstration</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">#BidenAdministration</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">#Colonial</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">#CarbonFree</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">#CleanEnergy</a> goals.’ “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">#GlobalWarming</a>, all while ignoring the devastating percent impacts <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndigenousPeoples" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#IndigenousPeoples</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">#DepletedUranium</a>) to its <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Mining" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Mining</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">#Lithium</a> extracted from other Indigenous sacred lands so <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Teslas" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Teslas</a> can mo you forward into a ‘just’ climate future.“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">#MotherEarth</a>.”Pages 139-140<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndigenousAnarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#IndigenousAnarchy</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Ecosystem" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Ecosystem</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HaulNo" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#HaulNo</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DefendTheSacred" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#DefendTheSacred</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CorporateColonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#CorporateColonialism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoDAPL" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#NoDAPL</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CriminalizingDissent" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#CriminalizingDissent</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#WaterIsLife</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateDefenders" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#ClimateDefenders</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoCopperMiningWithoutConsent" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#NoCopperMiningWithoutConsent</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoLithiumMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#NoLithiumMining</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CorporateColonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#CorporateColonialism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoMiningWithoutConsent" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#NoMiningWithoutConsent</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LithiumMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#LithiumMining</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CopperMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#CopperMining</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Greenwashng" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Greenwashng</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearWeapons" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#NuclearWeapons</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RestInPowerKleeBenally" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#RestInPowerKleeBenally</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RIPKleeBenally" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#RIPKleeBenally</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/StopCanyonMine" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#StopCanyonMine</a>

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