"Arnie [Gundersen] visited [in February 2016] the modern ghost towns, abandoned houses, and far stretching roads lined with plastic bags of radioactive garbage that have replaced the once bustling neighborhoods and cities of Fukushima. Formerly home to thousands, the massive release of radiation due to the meltdown at Fukushima Daiichi has forced residents to evacuate and destroyed their beautiful homeland. Join the Fairewinds Crew and ask yourself this: With 100 operating atomic power reactors generating electricity in the U.S., what's so different about your home, your town, your state that what happened to Fukushima couldn't happen to you and your family?"
Again, Gundersen speaks about his recent trip to Japan in Against the Will of the People, "But the other thing I learned on the last day of the trip was that there's a huge spike in the death rates within Fukushima Prefecture for young children compared to what it was in previous years. But that story has been stifled by the Japanese medical and government agencies. Nobody's publishing the data that the Japanese have been publishing for years leading up to the disaster. So where are the death data on Fukushima Prefecture? And the answer is it hasn't been published because the Japanese government doesn't want it out there. When you control the medical community, the epidemiological data that you need to prove a case is really, really difficult."
Joseph Mangano and Janette D. Sherman reported in February 2016, that "Today, one of the main sources of human exposure to radioactive iodine is nuclear power reactors. Declaring 'we don't know why' and continuing to diagnose and treat the growing number of Americans suffering from thyroid disease is not sufficient. Causes must be identified, preventive strategies must be implemented, and ultimately policy makers will have to take a serious look at closing the 99 nuclear reactors currently operating in the United States."
In a heart-aching quote from Svetlana Alexievich, winner of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature, she tells people's oral stories from Chernobyl. "It required a lot of courage to tell the truth about Chernobyl. It still does.Believe me! But you need to see this footage: the blackened faces of the firemen, like graphite. And their eyes? These are the eyes of people who already know that they're leaving us. There's one fragment showing the legs of a woman who the morning after the catastrophe went to work on her plot of land next to the atomic station. She's walking on grass covered with dew. Her legs remind you of a grate, everything's filled with holes up to the knees."
Some Solutions If You Become President
Fill the vacant commissioner seat on the NRC with a no-nuclear-power activist
If the immoral law of the land [pre-emption] that says only the NRC has the authority to close npp's holds, you surely have the moral authority to call on the NRC to close all nuclear power plants now. Appoint people against nuclear power to the NRC. As the leader of the USA, in charge of the public health and public safety of all the people, animals, butterflies, birds, environment and planet Earth herself, that is part of your job description. "The NRC is headed by five Commissioners appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate for five-year terms. One of them is designated by the President to be the Chairman [sic] and official spokesperson of the Commission." As of this writing there is one vacancy. When the terms of the current commissioners expire, appoint at least two more people against nuclear power to the commission.
On April 15, 2016, the NRC announced that "The Nuclear Regulatory Commission will cut its annual budget by $49 million and eliminate 185 full-time positions over the next two years, according to a blog published by the agency Friday." This means that all the decommissionings will be more dangerous than ever, as will the operating of the plants.
A new meme
A climate crisis meme is to "leave fossil fuels in the ground" and have all clean green renewables. We need a similar meme for the nuclear power crisis: "close all nuclear power plants now" and have all clean green renewables. Nuclear is not clean green or renewable.
Conservation
Wind turbines - clean green renewable
Remember the days when recycling was just starting up? We must do something very similar and very intense now about conservation. We must.
Become a vegan
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