Atomic Power

2011 12 19

NIMBY or IYBY
       those who use the acronym for "Not In My Back Yard" to devalue opposition to harmful industrial development, are saying: "In Your Back Yard!"
       anything goes, out of sight, out of mind ~ in the boonies
       try put it in a suburb where there will be multitudes of nimbys pointing to else-where anything goes, out of sight, out of mind ~ in the boonies: "IYBY"
       "there's more of us than you ~ that's democracy"
       or tyranny of the majority
       city over hinterland (and hinterpeople)

Why the Entire Nuclear Industry is Insane,
Then, Now and Forever

Exclusively in the New Print Issue of CounterPunch
What They're Covering Up at Fukushima
By HIROSE TAKASHI March 22, 2011
Introduced by Douglas Lummis

2011 05 30

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Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility
dedicated to education and research on all issues related to nuclear energy since 1978

~ resources, radioactivity, hazards, dangers, weapons, waste, industry, alternatives

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in local news 2011 04 06 . . .
(from the South Peace News)
Council may allow nuclear waste in M.D.
Nuclear Waste Management Organization is looking for a site in Canada to store waste,
created by nuclear plants in Ontario, Quebec and New Brunswick
Council of the Municipal District of Big Lakes approved March 30 by a 5-4 vote to look into the matter. . . .

The world's nuclear power plants have generated an estimated 300 000 tons
of high-level radioactive waste that must be safely stored for 100 000 years or more.

Into Eternity ~ the movie (Documentary 2009, 75 min)

"I am interested in the areas of documentary filmmaking where additional reality is created. By this I mean, that I do not think reality constitutes a fixed entity which accordingly can be documented - revealed - in this or that respect. Instead, I suspect reality to be dependent on and susceptible to the nature of it's interpretation. I am in other words interested in the potentials and requirements of how reality can be ~ and is ~ interpreted.
"The ONKALO project of creating the worlds first final nuclear waste facility capable of lasting at least 100 000 years, transgresses both in construction and on a philosophical level all previous human endeavours. It represents something new. And as such I suspect it to be emblematic of our time ~ and in a strange way out of time, a unique vantagepoint for any documentary."

~ Michael Madsen, director

Onkalo (Finnish for "hiding place")
Every day, the world over, large amounts of high-level radioactive waste created by nuclear power plants is placed in interim storages, which are vulnerable to natural disasters, man-made disasters, and to societal changes. In Finland the world's first permanent repository is being hewn out of solid rock ~ a huge system of underground tunnels ~ that must last 100,000 years as this is how long the waste remains hazardous.
Once the waste has been deposited and the repository is full, the facility is to be sealed off and never opened again. Or so we hope, but can we ensure that? And how is it possible to warn our descendants of the deadly waste we left behind? How do we prevent them from thinking they have found the pyramids of our time, mystical burial grounds, hidden treasures? Which languages and signs will they understand? And if they understand, will they respect our instructions? While gigantic monster machines dig deeper and deeper into the dark, experts above ground strive to find solutions to this crucially important radioactive waste issue to secure mankind and all species on planet Earth now and in the near and very distant future.