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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.
#histodons #nuclear #Hiroshima #peace #STS

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bojacobs, to nuclear
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"Niger's Radioactive Uranium Pollution"

Documentary on the legacies of uranium mining in Africa.

@sts

https://youtu.be/0fVxDb36UZ4?si=lpv_21FJTdkeiR3E

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Hey @inquiline !

"Bereaved Aberdeenshire donkey gets new lease of life thanks to sanctuary"

https://www.aberdeenlive.news/news/aberdeen-news/bereaved-aberdeenshire-donkey-gets-new-9168229

bojacobs, to nuclear
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An early plan for long-term burial of spent nuclear fuel was to put it in the Arctic since the ice was "permanent"

"The US Left Nuclear Waste Around The World, Now Climate Change May Unearth It"

@sts

https://www.iflscience.com/the-us-left-nuclear-waste-around-the-world-now-climate-change-may-unearth-it-73226

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The radiological mess the US made manufacturing plutonium during the Cold War keeps costing us. And it's still not nearly enough.

"Biden signs record $3B annual spending for Hanford nuclear site in Eastern WA"

https://www.thenewstribune.com/news/state/washington/article286482400.html

bojacobs, to nuclear
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'I was a guinea pig during secret Christmas Island nuclear tests' - BBC News

@histodons https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-68415338

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Decades after the US buried nuclear waste abroad, climate change could unearth it | Grist

https://grist.org/indigenous/decades-after-the-us-buried-nuclear-waste-abroad-climate-change-could-unearth-it/

bojacobs, to Bravo
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Today (March 1) is the 70th anniversary of the Test, the largest nuclear weapon test ever conducted by the US, on Atoll in the Marshall Islands. It was a radiological disaster that resulted in the irradiation and forced displacement of whole communities.

Here is an article I wrote about how Bravo put the word into our lexicon.

"The Bravo Test and the Death and Life of the Global Ecosystem in the Early Anthropocene"

@sts

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/317011763_The_Bravo_Test_and_the_Death_and_Life_of_the_Global_Ecosystem_in_the_Early_Anthropocene

bojacobs, to uk
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"‘A picture of hell’: inside the UK’s nuclear reactors – in pictures"

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2024/feb/21/a-picture-of-hell-inside-the-uks-nuclear-reactors-in-pictures?CMP=oth_b-aplnews_d-1

bojacobs, to Archaeology
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"Stone age wall found at bottom of Baltic Sea ‘may be Europe’s oldest megastructure’"

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/feb/12/stone-age-wall-found-at-bottom-of-baltic-sea-may-be-europes-oldest-megastructure

bojacobs, to nuclear
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Register for a place at my lecture, "Is Hiroshima Still Radioactive? Nuclear Explosions & the Environment" next Tuesday in Dublin at the Museum of Literature Ireland

@sts

https://nuclearbodies.com/page-5/

bojacobs, to nuclear
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Not just operating nuke plants past design parameters, but also waste canisters:

"Nuclear waste canisters must last an entire century, bill proposes"

#nuclear #NuclearPower #NuclearWaste #SanOnofre #OrangeCounty

https://www.orangecountycoast.com/nuclear-waste-canisters-must-last-an-entire-century-bill-proposes/

bojacobs, to movies
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At this anniversary time of Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove, one of the best films ever made, I recommend this as the finest scholarship published on Strangelove as a film, as a social commentary, and as an ur text of nuclear culture: Reconstructing Strangelove by Mick Broderick. Essential reading.

#Strangelove #Kubrick #film #MediaStudies #NuclearCulture @sts @histodons

https://cup.columbia.edu/book/reconstructing-strangelove/9780231177092

bojacobs, to ireland
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I'll be giving a public lecture at the Museum of Literature Ireland in Dublin on Feb 20th titled, "Is Hiroshima Still Radioactive? Nuclear Explosions & the Environment," sponsored by University College Dublin.

There will also be an affiliated poster exhibition from the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum. Details in the flier, or contact me.

bojacobs, to Archaeology
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35,000-40,000 years ago:

"A four-holed piece of ivory provides a glimpse into ancient rope-making.

Four or five people might have worked together to make meters-long rope in minutes."

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/ancient-rope-making-tool-ivory

bojacobs, to nuclear
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1/2

January 27th is the National Day of Remembrance for America’s Downwinders in the USA. These are people who lived downwind of the Nevada Nuclear Test site, and were exposed to radioactive fallout. Much of that fallout remains radioactive and is now embedded into the ecosystem.

The US government has paid a token compensation to a minuscule portion of this community through .

@histodons

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@histodons

2/2

When is a nuclear "test" actually an "attack”?

https://vimeo.com/668545237?share=copy

bojacobs, to random
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"Roman dodecahedron uncovered by amateur archaeologists in the UK

More than 100 dodecahedrons have now been found in northwestern Europe, but archaeologists still don't know what they were used for."

https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/romans/roman-dodecahedron-uncovered-by-amateur-archaeologists-in-the-uk

bojacobs, to nuclear
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"Fallout from Nuclear Weapons Tests and Cancer Risks.

Exposures 50 years ago still have health implications today that will continue into the future"

@histodons @sts

https://www.americanscientist.org/article/fallout-from-nuclear-weapons-tests-and-cancer-risks

bojacobs, to nuclear
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"Two planned nuclear power projects in Pac NW are scrapped"

https://columbiainsight.org/two-planned-nuclear-power-projects-in-pac-nw-are-scrapped/

bojacobs,
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@MHowell Lots of articles about the NuScale collapse, but here is one:

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/nuscale-layoffs-nuclear-power_n_65985ac5e4b075f4cfd24dba

bojacobs, to Japan
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Yeah, remember Fukushima?

"Japan quake stressed nuclear plant beyond design limit: panel"

https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20240111/p2g/00m/0na/014000c

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Critical takeaways from the final Republican presidential primary debate:

There are no critical takeaways from the final Republican presidential primary debate.

bojacobs, to random
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"Trump just promised an authoritarian ‘task force’ to impose Christian ideology"

“‘Upon taking office, I will create a new federal task force on fighting anti-Christian bias to be led by a fully reformed Department of Justice that’s fair and equitable,’ he promised. 'Its mission will be to investigate all forms of illegal discrimination, harassment and persecution against Christians in America.’”

https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/trump-2024-christian-right-truth-social-rcna132082

bojacobs, to nuclear
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"GOP Lawmakers Reveal They Don’t Know How Launching Nukes Works Amid Defense Secretary Health Crisis"

https://www.vice.com/en/article/93km7z/gop-lawmakers-nuclear-command-control-lloyd-austin

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The fate of the apex predator in a radiologically contaminated ecoystem

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