DoomsdaysCWDec 11
It's taking me forever to get through #AcresOfClams! Taking notes, remembering folks. I had first seen Dr. #HelenCaldicott speak back in 1976 (and interviewed with her for a job years later in 1990). And #HarveyWasserman! Seeing them speak and being part of the #ClamshellAlliance were instrumental in making me an activist! So grateful I had a "big sister and big brother" who took me to meetings and rallies! They were some good people!
bsmall2Apr 3, 2025
> .. lithium is volatile, flammable, toxic, challenging to mine, sustain and re-cycle, with ecological, labor and health issues that must be addressed... mining can be ecologically destructive, with significant health and labor issues.
> .. substitutes on the near horizon. Sodium Ion batteries are heavy, but can be far cheaper, cleaner to mine and easier to recycle than lithium.. BYD now offers a sodium iron battery sedan cheaper than a lithium Tesla. Iron air, aqueous (water) metal ion, gallium nitride..
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/04/01/as-nuke-power-dies-lithium-must-not-be-the-new-plutonium/
#HarveyWasserman
As Nuke Power Dies, Lithium Must Not Be the New Plutonium

Atomic Energy’s death spiral has spawned a run to green power. But the toxic mineral lithium has become a critical pitfall…with clear ways around it that

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bs2Jan 14, 2025

When it's hard to imagine something being worse:

> Los Angeles is now being destroyed by fire.
> Next will be the “Big One” earthquake everyone knows is coming.
> And then—unless we take immediate action—Diablo Canyon’s radioactive cloud will make this region a radioactive dead zone.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/01/13/newsoms-atomic-folly-now-by-fire-next-by-quake-then-by-apocalyptic-radiation/
#HarveyWasserman #LAFires #CaliforniaNukes #NoNukes

Newsom's Atomic Folly: Now By Fire, Next by Quake, Then by Apocalyptic Radiation?  

Los Angeles is now being destroyed by fire. Next will be the “Big One” earthquake everyone knows is coming. And then---unless we take immediate

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Show threadbs2Nov 11, 2023
> Projected prices at #NuScale have soared from $58/megawatt-hour in 2017 to $89.. nearly double the range of wind and solar. By 2030, #SMR prices are likely to be triple... A recent piece by former NRC Chair #AllisonMacFarlane eviscerated the technology’s potential with a devastating analysis, referring to it primarily as a means of attracting #GovernmentHandOuts and “ #StupidMoney.”.. while #SMRs drown in red ink and tape, the industry still burns and irradiates the planet
#HarveyWasserman
Show threadbs2Nov 11, 2023
> "Hanford generated plutonium for nearly four long decades, reaching maximum production during the height of the Cold War.”
> It is now, he says “a sprawling wasteland of radioactive and chemic sewage … the costliest environmental remediation project the world has ever seen and, arguably, the most contaminated place on the entire planet.”
#HarveyWasserman with book about
#HanfordNuclearReservation on other #NuclearWastelands
Show threadbs2Nov 11, 2023
> But “ #nuclearrenaissance proponents say we need even more reactors to “combat climate change.”... as reactor construction took off through the 1960s, ‘70s and into the ‘80s, the industry demonstrated an epic reverse learning curve, what #Forbes called in 1985 “the largest managerial disaster in business history, a disaster on a monumental scale.” ...
#SolartopiaGuy #HarveyWasserman
bs2Nov 11, 2023
> #NuclearPower not only costs twice as much as wind and solar, it ...[also] superheat[s].. air and water... as they burn with nuclear fission at some 571 degrees Fahrenheit, some 430 #NukeReactors roast.. Earth. They irradiate and superheat our air.. oceans.. spew radioactive carbon, and emit more #GreenhouseGasses in the mining, milling, enrichment and fabrication processes that produce their fuel. Still.. as they attempt to store.. wastes.
https://truthout.org/authors/harvey-wasserman/
#HarveyWasserman
Harvey Wasserman

Harvey Wasserman co-wrote Killing Our Own: The Disaster of America's Experience With Atomic Radiation, and in 1973 helped coin the phrase “No Nukes.” He also wrote SOLARTOPIA! Our Green-Powered Earth…

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Show threadbs2Jan 4, 2023
> ... the owners treat these franchises like toys. They get taxpayers to fund obscenely overpriced arenas that double as private palaces and that always drain the communities that can afford it least. Then they threaten to leave town unless they get whatever they want.
> Which now includes a huge give-back from the players and numerous other concessions...
https://www.counterpunch.org/2011/02/07/socialism-triumphs-at-the-super-bowl/
#HarveyWasserman #NFL #NFLowners
Socialism Triumphs at the Super Bowl

As Class War Looms ...

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Show threadbs2Jan 4, 2023
Year 2011!
> And we’re only beginning to grasp the seriousness of the injuries many endure. Countless concussions suffered as “part of the game” could have been mitigated throughout league history by facing up to the issue and demanding better helmets and thoughtful rule changes.
> The issue is doubly serious because the game as played downstream from colleges to little leagues mimics...
https://www.counterpunch.org/2011/02/07/socialism-triumphs-at-the-super-bowl/
#HarveyWasserman #GreenBayPackers #Socialism
Socialism Triumphs at the Super Bowl

As Class War Looms ...

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