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The Literary Labyrinth of Stephen T. Vessels
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‘Medicine Walk’ Featured in SBLitJo
Santa Barbara Literary Journal released ‘Bellatrix: Volume 3’ in June 2019, which among adventurous fiction, poetry, essays, and lyrics, features an excerpt of Jack Eidt’s psychic-animism fiction, Medicine Walk. Buy the book!
nuclear waste Archive
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Is Nuclear Waste at San Onofre Safe?
Posted on March 12, 2020 | No CommentsOn today’s show Carry Kim speaks with special guest Torgen Johnson, an urban planner and community activist from coastal San Diego County here to discuss the stranded nuclear waste situation at the now closed San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station located just a short drive south of Los Angeles. Nuclear waste has been described by Greenpeace’s Michael Stothard as “the most destructive and indestructible waste in history.” Torgen will shed some light on how we can remain safe nevertheless. -
Earth-Honoring Traditions of the Acjachemen with Spiritual Leader Adelia Sandoval
Posted on August 14, 2019 | 3 CommentsCarry Kim talks with Rev. Adelia Sandoval, the Spiritual Leader for the Juaneño Band of Mission Indians/Acjachemen Nation. The Acjachemen people are the indigenous people of Orange County in Southern California and have stewarded and inhabited this region for roughly 12,000 years. -
Nuclear Waste: The Los Angeles Meltdown & Cover-Up – EcoJustice Radio
Posted on December 17, 2018 | 1 CommentThe Nov. 2018 Woolsey Fire in Los Angeles and Ventura Counties burned 96,949 acres, destroyed 1,643 structures, killed three people, and prompted the evacuation of more than 295,000 people. The fire started at the Santa Susana Field Laboratory, site of one of the worst nuclear accidents in history. -
San Onofre Nuclear Waste Dangers Compound
Posted on September 4, 2018 | 1 CommentSince it was closed for safety violastions in 2012, the dangers of San Onofre Nuclear Generation Station (SONGS) between Orange County and San Diego have only continued to loom. Listen to this EcoJustice Radio interview with activists from Public Watchdogs explain how the nuclear waste being buried on the beach poses serious dangers to California. -
EcoJustice Radio – San Onofre as Nuclear Waste Dump – Episode 20
Posted on September 3, 2018 | No CommentsSince it closed for safety violations in 2012, the dangers of San Onofre Nuclear Generation Station (SONGS) between Orange County and San Diego have only continued to loom. -
San Onofre Beach as Permanent Nuclear Waste Dump
Posted on August 7, 2018 | 3 CommentsAccording to a former Nuclear Regulatory Commission Chief, the beach in front of San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station could become a permanent nuclear waste dump. Learn why Edison's program of storing deadly nuclear waste on the beach is not a "temporary" plan. And cartoonist Jerry Collamer weighs in. -
Loose Nuts: Edison Reveals Huge Gap in Safety at San Onofre
Posted on April 9, 2018 | 1 CommentToonman Collamer opines: Work crews transferring radioactive spent fuel (nuclear waste) at the San Onofre nuclear plant from cooling pools into dry storage discovered a loose bolt inside one of the canisters, prompting Southern California Edison to temporarily halt the relocation effort. -- Los Angeles Times -
San Onofre: Beachfront Leaky Nuclear Waste Facility Underway
Posted on March 25, 2017 | 1 CommentSan Onofre Nuclear Plant, on the coast of California, is busy building a nuclear waste dump for 1,600 tons of spent fuel on a bluff overlooking the Pacific. Most U.S. nuclear power facilities store highly radioactive waste in thin-walled canisters (mostly 1/2-inch thick) that both the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) and the Department of Energy (DOE) admit cannot be inspected (on the outside or inside), cannot be maintained, repaired, and can crack and leak in the short-term. -
Ontario: Nuclear Waste Repository Proposed for Great Lakes
Posted on June 30, 2014 | No CommentsThe fate of a proposed nuclear waste facility near the Canadian shores of Lake Huron is left to the "democratic process" within a small Ontario nuke-dependent town, while failing to consult the 40 million people whose drinking water could be affected. -
Decommissioning San Onofre: Money Over Meltdown
Posted on May 13, 2014 | 1 CommentSan Onofre’s nuclear reactors are permanently shut down. However, Southern California Edison has left tons of highly radioactive nuclear waste that will remain on site for decades, if not longer. San Onofre’s spent fuel contains 89 times the amount of radiation (Cesium-137) released from Chernobyl. What is being done to rectify this situation? -
Nuclear: Vermont Yankee to Close, 22 Fukushimas Still Threaten US
Posted on August 30, 2013 | No CommentsThe Vermont Yankee nuclear reactor, one of the oldest nuclear plants in the country and the subject of heated battles over the decades, will close late next year. This would leave the US with 99 operating reactors. Four reactors in Georgia and South Carolina are under construction, and the Tennessee Valley Authority is finishing a fifth in Tennessee. But the industry is in a period of rapid decline. -
Finland’s Nuclear Waste: 100,000 Years of Poison Into Eternity
Posted on August 18, 2011 | 4 CommentsInto Eternity is a feature documentary film by Danish director Michael Madsen, released in 2010. It follows the plan to construct Onkalo Waste Repository deep underground, designed to last 100,000 years, at the Olkiluoto Nuclear Power Plant. -
Human Hubris Fuels Nuclear Catastrophe
Posted on March 18, 2011 | 3 CommentsFour of six Fukushima nuclear reactor sites are irradiating the earth. Fire burns out of control at Reactor No. 4's pool of spent nuclear fuel, with six spent fuel pools at risk, all sites too hot to deal with.
