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Beyond Nuclear denounces President Obama’s decision to transfer financial and safety risks of new reactors to U.S. taxpayers
By Kevin Kamps
TAKOMA PARK, MD – Beyond Nuclear today denounced President Obama’s granting of a conditional loan guarantee to Southern Nuclear Operating Company for the construction of new atomic reactors at its Vogtle Nuclear Power Plant site in Waynesboro, Georgia. Two new Westinghouse-Toshiba Advanced Passive (AP) 1000 reactors are proposed at Plant Vogtle. President Obama’s award comes despite an announcement by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) in October of a major safety flaw with the AP1000 design.
An NRC media release dated October 15, 2009 documents that the AP1000 shield building, as currently designed, is vulnerable to severe weather such as tornadoes and hurricanes, and natural disasters like earthquakes. This raises the concern that the design is also vulnerable to terrorist attacks such as intentionally crashing airliners. Thus, the shield building’s intended protection of the reactor’s primary radioactivity containment is questionable, as is its ability to provide radiation shielding during normal operations as well as to support a large emergency cooling water supply tank.
“It is utterly irresponsible of President Obama to risk public safety and the environment by financing the incomplete and flawed AP1000 design at Vogtle and, worse still, at taxpayers’ financial risk,” said Kevin Kamps of Beyond Nuclear. “Even if ultimately fixed, the AP1000’s major design flaw risks delays in construction and cost overruns, the same problems that delivered death blows to scores of atomic reactors three decades ago.”
The Congressional Budget Office has predicted that over half of new reactor owners will default on their loan repayments. The federal nuclear loan guarantees would finance up to 80% of the total project cost for a new reactor. Cost estimates for certain proposed new reactors in the U.S. have already surpassed $10 billion. The two new reactors at Vogtle are currently estimated by proponents to cost $14.5 billion, a figure expected by critics to significantly increase.
“Making federal atomic reactor loan guarantees conditional upon a Nuclear Regulatory Commission license won't protect U.S. taxpayers,” Kamps said. “The nuclear industry has a long history of defaulting on loans in the post-licensing period due to design flaws, construction mistakes, cost overruns, lengthy delays, and other problems that President Obama and Energy Secretary Chu cannot foresee, stumbling blocks which are not eliminated by NRC granting a construction and operating license,” Kamps added.
Note from Censored News: Black community targeted with contamination and war industry profiteering:
Waynesboror, Ga., is 63 percent black, with 70 percent of elementary students are black. No surprise to see Shaw, the nuclear industry with its risk of contamination and death, Obama's friends at General Dynamics and the intelligence community are the main employers:
Waynesboro Companies
Companies hiring in Waynesboro are:
General Dynamics
McDonald's
L-3 Communications
SAIC
Shaw Group
Source: http://www.simplyhired.com/a/local-jobs/city/l-Waynesboro,+GA
February 17, 2010
February 16, 2010
Prayer Vigil Glen Cove Native Burial Site
Contact: Wounded Knee DeOcampo protectglencove@gmail.com
http://www.vallejointertribalcouncil.org/#glencove
Prayer Vigil for Protection of Ancient Glen Cove Native Burial
Site
When: Monday, February 22, 2010
8:00 A.M. to 9:00 A.M.
Where: John Moss Federal Building
650 Capitol Mall
Sacramento, CA 95814
Prayer Vigil for Protection of Ancient Glen Cove Native Burial
SiteWhen: Monday, February 22, 2010
8:00 A.M. to 9:00 A.M.
Where: John Moss Federal Building
650 Capitol Mall
Sacramento, CA 95814
(File photo: Glen Cove Prayer Walk/Vallejo Intertribal Council)
We urge everybody to attend the prayer vigil in a good way and be guided by the Indigenous Vision of our ancestors as we gather to focus on protecting the Glen Cove burial site.
Following the vigil, a talking circle will take place at 9:30 A.M. at the Sol Collective Building 2574 21st Street, Sac CA 95818. We will converge at Sol Collective to gather our thoughts and formulate holistic approaches to the protection and preservation of our revered sacred sites. Bring questions, suggestions, and solutions as we develop strategies for moving forward and implementing positive change within our communities and ensuring the survival of future generations. Native peoples knowledgeable of and willing to discuss American Indian Law and United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples specific to protecting sacred sites are encouraged to participate.
Protect and Defend the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
We, the Indigenous Peoples of Turtle Island, urgently request the assistance from any concerned citizens of this state, any non-governmental organizations and from our fellow Indigenous Peoples to unite in solidarity for the preservation and protection of all Sacred Sites: sites of gathering, sites of ceremony, sites of creation and sites of burial. The full and undeniable accesses to these sites are a basic human right of the Indigenous Peoples and must be respected by the state in which they reside.
As members of the seventh generation, we are concerned about the eminent threat of the desecration and the development of the Glen Cove burial site by the City of Vallejo and the Greater Vallejo Recreational District. For over 11 years, the Vallejo Inter-Tribal Council and concerned peoples have fought to protect the ancestral remains and the sacred items within the shell mounds. The Glen Cove site has been a gathering place for our Indigenous Ancestors to bury their relatives for thousands of years and had been used by over one hundred local California Indian tribes. The site was first documented in archaeological records in 1907 by an archaeologist from the University of California at Berkeley and, according to a 1988 report by Novato Archaeological Resource Service, is at least 3,500 years old. Many of the sacred items unearthed from the site in previous years remain illegally housed in the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology at UC Berkeley.
We call upon all family clans, bands, tribes, nations and all Earth Peoples to join us on our spiritual journey and struggle to protect Indigenous Peoples sacred sites. These sites are absolutely necessary for the self-determination and cultural transmission of the Indigenous Peoples.
Our time is now; we must unite in solidarity and implement change in our communities.
Following the vigil, a talking circle will take place at 9:30 A.M. at the Sol Collective Building 2574 21st Street, Sac CA 95818. We will converge at Sol Collective to gather our thoughts and formulate holistic approaches to the protection and preservation of our revered sacred sites. Bring questions, suggestions, and solutions as we develop strategies for moving forward and implementing positive change within our communities and ensuring the survival of future generations. Native peoples knowledgeable of and willing to discuss American Indian Law and United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples specific to protecting sacred sites are encouraged to participate.
Protect and Defend the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
We, the Indigenous Peoples of Turtle Island, urgently request the assistance from any concerned citizens of this state, any non-governmental organizations and from our fellow Indigenous Peoples to unite in solidarity for the preservation and protection of all Sacred Sites: sites of gathering, sites of ceremony, sites of creation and sites of burial. The full and undeniable accesses to these sites are a basic human right of the Indigenous Peoples and must be respected by the state in which they reside.
As members of the seventh generation, we are concerned about the eminent threat of the desecration and the development of the Glen Cove burial site by the City of Vallejo and the Greater Vallejo Recreational District. For over 11 years, the Vallejo Inter-Tribal Council and concerned peoples have fought to protect the ancestral remains and the sacred items within the shell mounds. The Glen Cove site has been a gathering place for our Indigenous Ancestors to bury their relatives for thousands of years and had been used by over one hundred local California Indian tribes. The site was first documented in archaeological records in 1907 by an archaeologist from the University of California at Berkeley and, according to a 1988 report by Novato Archaeological Resource Service, is at least 3,500 years old. Many of the sacred items unearthed from the site in previous years remain illegally housed in the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology at UC Berkeley.
We call upon all family clans, bands, tribes, nations and all Earth Peoples to join us on our spiritual journey and struggle to protect Indigenous Peoples sacred sites. These sites are absolutely necessary for the self-determination and cultural transmission of the Indigenous Peoples.
Our time is now; we must unite in solidarity and implement change in our communities.
Hopi Green: Native Movement Benefit Concert
Double click poster to enlarge.Greetings all,
You're invited to a benefit concert/event at the Greenroom on Saturday February 20, 4-10 pm in Flagstaff, Arizona. There will be tables with info, dancing, raffle prizes and more. Music and bands will include Summit Dub Squad, Sonaya and more ... Hope to see you there!
Lilian Hill
Project Director, Hopi Tutskwa Permaculture
Zapatistas targeted with intelligence operations
Intelligence operations aimed at increasing military attacks on Zapatistas
Censored News
http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com
The Chiapas state government is attempting to blame the Zapatista support-bases for the armed attack on the Zapatista population of Bolón Ajaw. The government of Mexico is pressing for a military intervention against the Zapatistas and is increasing mixed-force intelligence operations, according to a human rights organization in Mexico. The Good Government Council of Morelia “is acting toward the realization of a goodwill agreement based on principles of autonomous indigenous justice,” the “lack of political will in the state government is closing off the possibility of such an accord.” Read more:
http://sipazen.wordpress.com/2010/02/15/chiapas-statement-from-the-fray-bartolome-center-for-human-rights-on-bolon-ajaw/
Censored News
http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com
The Chiapas state government is attempting to blame the Zapatista support-bases for the armed attack on the Zapatista population of Bolón Ajaw. The government of Mexico is pressing for a military intervention against the Zapatistas and is increasing mixed-force intelligence operations, according to a human rights organization in Mexico. The Good Government Council of Morelia “is acting toward the realization of a goodwill agreement based on principles of autonomous indigenous justice,” the “lack of political will in the state government is closing off the possibility of such an accord.” Read more:
http://sipazen.wordpress.com/2010/02/15/chiapas-statement-from-the-fray-bartolome-center-for-human-rights-on-bolon-ajaw/
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