Gregory's Server"Concern about the government’s revived push for nuclear energy grew after a magnitude 7.5 earthquake hit Japan’s Noto Peninsula on Jan. 1, 2024, killing more than 400 people and damaging more than 100,000 structures. The quake caused minor damage to two nearby nuclear facilities, and evacuation plans for the region were found to be inadequate."
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Nuclear historian at the Hiroshima Peace Institute. Book - Nuclear Bodies: The Global Hibakusha - Yale 2022. I work on the global human & ecological harm from nuclear production, nuclear weapon tests, reactor accidents. I examine the impacts on communities, families & emotions; long-term ecological presence of fallout radionuclides; the legacy of our nuclear waste to 1,000s of generations of our descendants.
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 @bojacobs now I want to act like a Disney villain and shout "FOOLS! ALL OF YOU" on every single one of their posts. 😂  My son was reading about Marine Le Pen and remarked, “the funny thing about holocaust deniers is that they never seem happy that it didn’t happen”
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  "100,000 years and counting: how do we tell future generations about highly radioactive nuclear waste repositories?" The #Oppenheimer movie is a triumph of the American narrative of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. A story entirely told from the perpetrator's perspective. No voice of the victim. An obsession with the brilliance of manufacturing weapons of mass destruction. #Hiroshima #Nagasaki #nuclear #ManhattanProject @histodons #histodons
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Important piece. Thank you for sharing. "This is a continuation of the war time erasure of Japanese humanity." Agree. To make the killing psychologically acceptable, it's necessary for the state to dehumanize the "enemy alien." This is, of course, an ongoing project for the state, which is why the rehearsal of the history (and pieces like this which challenge the erasure) are so important.  @bojacobs @histodons well, the movie is called Oppenheimer, not 'WW2' or 'Japanese Perspectives' and i saw it. i completely disagree with your opinion that this is movie is about a "triumph" - not even close. @bojacobs @histodons I feel sure if the Hitler had completed his race to create the bomb first he would’ve only used it in a humane and life affirming way. The Japanese were practically buried in pamphlets begging them to surrender or face a catastrophic weapon. They refused to do so, they refused to even contemplate peace negotiations. 300,000 US military casualties taking the mainland be acceptable? I don’t think so. A horrible weapon, but it was inevitable. |
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> The verdict comes after more than eight years of safety reviews that were repeatedly disrupted by data coverups and mistakes by the operator, Yamanaka said. He called the case “abnormal” and urged the utility to take the result seriously.
"Data cover ups and mistakes by the operator" might be common enough in the nuclear industry for the case to be considered "normal"