DoomsdaysCW<p>[Podcast] A Community of Color Contends With the Navy’s <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Toxic" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Toxic</span></a> Legacy</p><p>Decades after the Navy shuttered a <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ColdWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ColdWar</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/radiation" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>radiation</span></a> research lab, the mess hasn’t been completely cleaned up. Listen to local voices demanding accountability amid charges of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnvironmentalRacism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>EnvironmentalRacism</span></a>.</p><p>By Rebecca Bowe, 11.25.2024</p><p>"The San Francisco Public Press presents the first half of a two-part radio documentary, '<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Exposed" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Exposed</span></a>,' opening a window into the little-known history of the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HuntersPointNavalShipyard" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>HuntersPointNavalShipyard</span></a>. The sprawling abandoned naval base, in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SanFrancisco" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SanFrancisco</span></a>’s southeast waterfront <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Bayview" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Bayview</span></a> neighborhood, is currently the site of the city’s largest real estate development project. The base played a key role in the Cold War nuclear era, when it housed a research institution known as the Naval Radiological Defense Laboratory [<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NRDL" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NRDL</span></a>], which studied the human health effects of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/radiation" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>radiation</span></a>.</p><p>"In Episode 1 of the podcast, we trace the radioactive contamination found in the shipyard soil today back to its origins, with <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearBomb" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NuclearBomb</span></a> testing in the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MarshallIslands" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>MarshallIslands</span></a>. We also hear from <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnvironmentalJustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>EnvironmentalJustice</span></a> advocates, including one who led a health biomonitoring survey revealing that nearby residents have toxic elements stored in body tissues that match the hazardous chemicals of concern identified at the shipyard.</p><p>"This radio documentary is part of a larger multimedia package stemming from a deep dive into declassified government records produced by the radiation lab in the 1940s, ’50s and ’60s. Listen to Episode 2 of the podcast: 'Why the Navy Conducted Radiation Experiments on Humans.'"</p><p><a href="https://www.sfpublicpress.org/exposed-podcast-episode-1-a-community-of-color-contends-with-the-navys-toxic-legacy/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">sfpublicpress.org/exposed-podc</span><span class="invisible">ast-episode-1-a-community-of-color-contends-with-the-navys-toxic-legacy/</span></a><br /><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoNukes" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NoNukes</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NoWar</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoNuclearWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NoNuclearWar</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearWeapons" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NuclearWeapons</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RadiationExposure" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>RadiationExposure</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ColdWarExperiments" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ColdWarExperiments</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HuntersPoint" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>HuntersPoint</span></a></p>
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DoomsdaysCW<p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PBSNewsHour" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>PBSNewsHour</span></a> video from 2022: Residents in the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Southwest" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Southwest</span></a> struggle with the health effects of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearOre" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NuclearOre</span></a> extraction<br /> <br />By Stephanie Sy, Lena I. Jackson, and Frank Carlson <br />Aug 8, 2022 6:30 PM EST</p><p>"Residents of the Southwest including many <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndigenousPeople" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>IndigenousPeople</span></a> have for years been exposed to high levels of radiation from <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/uranium" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>uranium</span></a> extraction and refining, a toxic legacy from the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ColdWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ColdWar</span></a>'s weapons program and nuclear power generation. Stephanie Sy reports in partnership with investigative news outlet ProPublica on a community’s fight for survival and to hold a company and government accountable." </p><p>Watch: <br /><a href="https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/residents-in-the-southwest-struggle-with-the-health-effects-of-nuclear-ore-extraction" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">pbs.org/newshour/show/resident</span><span class="invisible">s-in-the-southwest-struggle-with-the-health-effects-of-nuclear-ore-extraction</span></a><br /><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnvironmentalRacism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>EnvironmentalRacism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoUraniumMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NoUraniumMining</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/UraniumProcessing" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>UraniumProcessing</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoNukes" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NoNukes</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NoWar</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoNuclearWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NoNuclearWar</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearWeapons" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NuclearWeapons</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Genocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Genocide</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Dine" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Dine</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NukingTheNavajo" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NukingTheNavajo</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RadiationExposure" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>RadiationExposure</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Billiman" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Billiman</span></a> matriarch, niece remain strong in face of adverse health conditions caused by <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RadiationExposure" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>RadiationExposure</span></a> </p><p>By Donovan Quintero | Jan 9, 2025 | </p><p>WINDOW ROCK – "Since September, when she traveled to Washington, D.C., to tell House Speaker Mike Johnson to renew the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RECA" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>RECA</span></a>), Maggie Billiman has had her gallbladder removed.</p><p>"Now she is awaiting more possibly devastating news about her liver. And if that wasn’t enough bad news, she said she was also told she has three cysts on her pancreas.</p><p>"'I just had surgery and I’m still in a lot of pain,' she said on Dec. 26, referring to her gallbladder removal surgery.</p><p>"A <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/downwinder" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>downwinder</span></a> victim, Billiman, and about 30 others from the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NavajoNation" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NavajoNation</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Laguna" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Laguna</span></a>, and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AcomaPueblo" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>AcomaPueblo</span></a> tribes traveled to Washington, D.C., in September to advocate for the passage of Missouri Republican Sen. Josh Hawley’s RECA legislation.</p><p>"For 17 years, from 1945 and 1962, the U.S. conducted nearly 200 atmospheric nuclear weapons development tests. Atmospheric nuclear tests are when nuclear bombs are exploded in the air, instead of underground or underwater.</p><p>"At the heart of the bombs involved <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/UraniumMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>UraniumMining</span></a> and [<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/UraniumProcessing" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>UraniumProcessing</span></a>], which was performed by tens of thousands of workers, like Maggie’s father.</p><p>"Maggie’s father, a member of the legendary Navajo Code Talkers Howard Billiman Sr., worked in the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/UraniumMines" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>UraniumMines</span></a>.</p><p>"'My dad had died of stomach cancer, he was one of the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NavajoCodeTalkers" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NavajoCodeTalkers</span></a>, and he passed away,' she said.</p><p>"Her father worked at the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/KennecottMine" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>KennecottMine</span></a> in Utah. He also worked at the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/KingmanMine" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>KingmanMine</span></a> in Arizona in the 1950s through the 1960s, Maggie said.</p><p>"After the tests ended in 1962, many of the uranium miners and process workers initiated class action lawsuits claiming exposure to known radiation hazards."</p><p>Read more:<br /><a href="https://navajotimes.com/reznews/billiman-matriarch-niece-remain-strong-in-face-of-adverse-health-conditions-caused-by-radiation-exposure/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">navajotimes.com/reznews/billim</span><span class="invisible">an-matriarch-niece-remain-strong-in-face-of-adverse-health-conditions-caused-by-radiation-exposure/</span></a> <br /><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoNukes" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NoNukes</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NoWar</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Downwinders" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Downwinders</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NukingTheNavajo" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NukingTheNavajo</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Dine" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Dine</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LagunaPueblo" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>LagunaPueblo</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Genocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Genocide</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnvironmentalRacism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>EnvironmentalRacism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoUraniumMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NoUraniumMining</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoMiningWithoutConsent" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NoMiningWithoutConsent</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HaulNo" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>HaulNo</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>Risky Revival: How <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Michigan" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Michigan</span></a>’s <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Palisades" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Palisades</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearPlant" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NuclearPlant</span></a> could impact agriculture </p><p>While state leaders champion the Palisades reopening as an energy solution, local farmers remain divided over the potential threats to their land and water.<br /> <br />by S. Nicole Lane, for Investigate Midwest December 10, 2024</p><p>COVERT, Michigan — "The Palisades Nuclear Generating Station, long synonymous with safety lapses and regulatory oversight, is poised for an unprecedented comeback under Michigan Gov. <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GretchenWhitmer" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>GretchenWhitmer</span></a>’s plan to reopen the shuttered plant by 2025 — the first attempt of its kind in U.S. history.</p><p>"However, in this robust agricultural region, there are fears about how reopening a problematic plant could impact area farmers and the food they produce.</p><p>"Approximately 6,362 farms are within 50 miles of Palisades. In Van Buren County alone, where the plant is located, there are 838 farms. Michigan’s southwestern corner, home to 80% of the state’s farms, is often called the 'blueberry capital of the world.' </p><p>"'A leak (and) this 150-year-old farm is done,' said Bill Adams, who runs Adams Blueberry Farms in Hartford, Michigan, 16 miles south of the plant. 'Why would they restart something that old and sitting this long?'</p><p>"Opened in 1971, Palisades, which is located along <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LakeMichigan" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>LakeMichigan</span></a>, once generated 5% of Michigan’s electricity, enough to power 800,000 homes. But a litany of mechanical issues plagued its operations for decades.</p><p>"In 2013, the plant leaked 79 gallons of diluted <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RadioactiveWater" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>RadioactiveWater</span></a> into Lake Michigan, forcing a five-week shutdown — its ninth closure in just two years. </p><p>"Federal regulators repeatedly flagged the plant for safety concerns, from undetected <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RadiationExposure" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>RadiationExposure</span></a> among employees in 2008 to persistent cracks in its 300,000-gallon storage tank that leaked for over a decade. In 2012, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) described Palisades as having some of the worst cases of nuclear fuel container weakening in the nation.</p><p>"The plant was permanently shut down on May 31, 2022, with its owners citing financial and safety concerns. But just months later, Whitmer announced a plan to revive Palisades, reigniting debates over the risks and benefits of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearEnergy" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NuclearEnergy</span></a> in a state still grappling with its troubled legacy.</p><p>"Typically, after 40 years, a nuclear power plant is closed and undergoes a complex decommissioning process that can take up to 30 years to complete. Globally, the only plants that have reopened are in Japan. </p><p>"<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Holtec" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Holtec</span></a> Decommissioning International bought Palisades in 2022 with the goal of dismantling it. Now, with Whitmer’s support, they have since decided to reopen the plant, something Holtec has never done. </p><p>"Neither Holtec nor Whitmer’s office responded to multiple requests for comment. "</p><p>Read more:<br /><a href="https://investigatemidwest.org/2024/12/10/risky-revival-how-michigans-palisades-nuclear-plant-could-impact-agriculture/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">investigatemidwest.org/2024/12</span><span class="invisible">/10/risky-revival-how-michigans-palisades-nuclear-plant-could-impact-agriculture/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoNukes" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NoNukes</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WaterIsLife</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LandIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>LandIsLife</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RethinkNotRestart" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>RethinkNotRestart</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RenewablesNow" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>RenewablesNow</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Holtec" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Holtec</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HoltecLies" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>HoltecLies</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearPowerCorruptionAndLies" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NuclearPowerCorruptionAndLies</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearPowerPlants" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NuclearPowerPlants</span></a></p>
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