Comments on Nuke Pro: Its Time to Close Palisades, SW Michigan Sierra Club, Gunderson, Chi-Town Boudart, and NukePro are ready to make the push

It's an international concern, including Bruce...

2015-08-01T20:48:58.021-07:00

It's an international concern, including Bruce wanting to make a dump, is it not?
Save the Great Lakes, and spare the internation resource.
First Nations were ready to go to war in Oka, not long ago.
Recent decisions in Supreme Court have enshrine First Nations rights and title to lands and resources within those boundaries.

Quote: "The unanimous ruling granted the Tsilhqot’in First Nation title to a 1,700-square-kilometre area of traditional land outside its reserve, marking the end of a decades-long battle.

But it also clarified major issues such as how to prove aboriginal title and when consent is required from aboriginal groups, which will affect negotiations on major projects such as the Northern Gateway pipeline.
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The traditional territory in question is located to the south and west of Williams Lake and Alexis Creek in B.C.'s Interior. (CBC)

“This is a case of national significance and national importance, bulletproof in its legal reasoning,” says Bill Gallagher, a former treaty rights negotiator and author of Resource Rulers."

http://www.cbc.ca/news/aboriginal/supreme-court-s-tsilhqot-in-first-nation-ruling-a-game-changer-for-all-1.2689140

There must be many on both shores of many differing persuasions all with common cause. Black lives matter, First Nations lives matter, Women and children's lives matter. So many despondant and need reminder that YES, their lives do matter.

Hands around the shoreline?

Start by calling your elected Leaders and ask them...

2015-07-31T16:39:54.114-07:00

Start by calling your elected Leaders and ask them if they accept money from Nuclear Operators and if they will take a stand to protect their voters.

Start a "Hashtag" whre everyone can go to see an ever expanding amount of info on each reactor.

Here is one I started on #SanOnofreGate The new hashtag that will allow you to keep up to date on the ongoing investigation into the multi-billion $ SCE-CPUC ripoff.

That is simple enough and excellent, now how else ...

2015-07-30T22:44:57.679-07:00

That is simple enough and excellent, now how else can we spread the word? And get people motivated enough to spend 16 minutes on a letter and mailing time, and to find out where to send it?

To Stock and his following: Here is a sample lette...

2015-07-30T15:56:05.194-07:00

To Stock and his following: Here is a sample letter to present to your favorite commissioner or council member. Write or re write according to your own lights (however, I thought earthquakes were a danger and Arnie Gunderson said they were not).

Thanks for reading and even more thanks for participating. ChiTown Boudart!

To Whom it May Concern:

This is to request that the city council of (your city or town) pass a resolution to the effect that the Nuclear Power Plant at Palisades be closed immediately. It has become brittle. And two similar reactors with the same problem have been closed for safety reasons.

Palisade’s embrittlement affects the reactor vessel, a structure that contains the nuclear heart of the power plant, its nuclear core. Originally eight inches of stainless steel, 44 years of bombardment with escaping neutrons beaming out of the fuel rods, has turned the reactor into what is, essentially, glass.

Embrittlement means the reactor vessel would crack instead of flex if there were a rapid depressurization. For example, a broken pipe would require injection of emergency cooling water that would cause the reactor vessel to crack or shatter. It would not be able to hold the pressurized water necessary to cool the nuclear core, overheating the fuel core. In the excess heat zirconium, an essential element throughout the core, reacts catastrophically with water to produce hydrogen gas causing an explosion.

The combination of expanding steam and exploding gasses is documented in the images of the skeletal remains of the containment structures of Fukushima/Daiichi.

At least two NPPs of similar design were closed when they were much younger than Palisades. They became embrittled, only to a lesser degree than is affecting Palisades today.
Yankee Rowe in Rowe Massachusetts was closed after 31 years of operation. In 1992 the board of directors of Yankee Atomic Electric Co. voted to shut down Yankee Rowe rather than spend the money to investigate repairing its embrittled reactor.
And in Japan at least one of the four Genaki reactors in Kyushu province is not being considered for reopening because of the same problem.

The Palisades plant should be closed. Being subject to accident as it is, it threatens the living water of 40 million people. (Your city or town) should do all it can to protect its own citizens and the greater community that shares Lake Michigan and, indeed, all the Great Lakes.