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bojacobs

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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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Just when the PR was starting to work...

"Japan's recent earthquake casts doubt over restarting its nuclear plants"

https://interestingengineering.com/culture/japans-recent-earthquake-casts-doubt-over-restarting-its-nuclear-plants

BlackAzizAnansi, to random
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What's your favorite conspiracy theory?

bojacobs,
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@BlackAzizAnansi @azzageddi That humans are separate from nature

bojacobs, to Canada
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Radiological contamination in , and intrigue in the Manhattan Project and uranium mining afterwards. This story has it all.

@histodons

https://thewalrus.ca/unearthing-a-nuclear-scandal/

bojacobs, to random
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"Meet the New Apostolic Reformation, cutting edge of the Christian right"

https://www.salon.com/2024/01/02/meet-the-new-apostolic-reformation-cutting-edge-of-the-christian-right/

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Happy New Year

bojacobs, to Norway
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"Miners hunting for metals to battery cars threaten Sámi reindeer herders' homeland"

https://thebarentsobserver.com/en/node/7082

bojacobs, to histodons
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Many who didn't grow up in the 60s may only know Tommy Smothers from this clip that opens the Who movie The Kids Are Alright (probably many don't know this either). Tommy played the straight person who was shocked by change, but he was the one who was a key to brining an awareness of change to a generation of little kids. Believe me, this whole schtick was his call.

@histodons

https://youtu.be/OiSKu7SbGNQ

bojacobs,
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@histodons

Also, on Tommy Smothers' passing, your occasional reminder that well over a majority of Baby Boomers are women and people of color. It's always been about the haves and have nots. Generational antagonism is another misdirection.

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When I was a working chef everyone used German knives. I remember when people started to include Japanese knives in their kit. Now, I swear by these amazing knives.

https://phys.org/news/2023-12-japan-hand-forged-knives-slice-samurai.html

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Winter solstice in Newgrange in Ireland. Newgrange is one more ancient passage monument aligned for the sun to traverse a long passage and illuminate an interior chamber on the winter solstice.

Thinking of it today, but also looking forward to visiting it again in early 2024.

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    @inquiline Not uncommon in Japan, but not nearly like in the US. Also, people here live in much smaller domiciles with almost no storage unless they live in a house in the country.

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    Subsidies for nukes to then profit from us:

    "Georgia Power customers to bear costs of $7.6 billion nuclear reactor construction"

    https://roughdraftatlanta.com/2023/12/19/georgia-power-customers-to-bear-costs-of-7-6-billion-nuclear-reactor-construction/

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    The persimmon torts came out well… Taste better than they look, thank you @SRLevine for the recipe suggestion!

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    @inquiline @SRLevine Looks divine. Persimmons are a cult lifestyle here in Japan.

    bojacobs, to MIjazz
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    Press full of "giant breakthrough" articles about fusion at the NIF at Lawrence Livermore Lab (nuclear weapons facility).

    What is the breakthrough? The first hint that you can actually make energy. No viable reactor, no actual technology, just a research finding of the hint of a start (that cost many billions already).

    What is the NIF? "The NIF was designed not as a power plant, but as a facility to recreate and study the reactions that occur during thermonuclear detonations after the United States halted underground weapons testing in 1992."

    So, more hype to up funding for nuclear weapons passed off as an energy "breakthrough" that, even if true, is decades from even coming into the potential for construction.

    But hype away military contractors!

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    Masha Gessen on the Medhi Hasan Show

    https://www.msnbc.com/mehdi-on-msnbc/watch/jewish-journalist-masha-gessen-on-comparing-gaza-to-a-nazi-ghetto-200432197922

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    "The nuclear accident in Chernobyl in 1986 led to the spread of radioactivity across Sweden and Europe. In a long-term study now published in Environmental Epidemiology, researchers have used new, more specific calculation methods to show the connection between radiation dose and certain types of cancer."

    https://scienmag.com/some-increase-in-cancer-after-1986-chernobyl-disaster/

    bojacobs, to Archaeology
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    "North America's first people may have arrived by sea ice highway as early as 24,000 years ago"

    @histodons

    https://phys.org/news/2023-12-north-america-people-sea-ice.html

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    Quotes from the review of my book Nuclear Bodies: The Global HIbakusha by Sonali Huria in the Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament

    @sts @histodons @nuclearhumanities

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    @sts @histodons @nuclearhumanities

    Review available to read here:

    https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.1080/25751654.2023.2286806?needAccess=true

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    And another one....

    "'Shocking' discovery of radioactive material in Houston spurs push to renew federal program"

    "Police do not know who discarded the Cesium-137, but officials believe it was used in an industrial setting."

    Sounds similar to the Goiânia accident in Brazil in 1987.

    https://www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/texas/article/houston-radioactive-material-18551587.php

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    "Xcel fined $14K over unpermitted storage of radioactive water at Minnesota nuclear plant"

    https://www.startribune.com/xcel-fined-14k-mpca-over-unpermitted-storage-of-radioactive-water-at-nuclear-plant-minnesota/600328087/

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    Extending the use of nuclear reactors beyond their design limitations carries great risk. Also, is done with public subsidies.

    "PG&E gets OK to keep open Diablo Canyon nuclear plant: bills may jump"

    https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2023/12/14/pge-gets-ok-to-keep-open-diablo-canyon-nuclear-plant-bills-will-jump/

    bojacobs, to nuclear
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    "‘Morally, this is obscene’: GOP divided over stripping compensation for radiation victims from NDAA"

    https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/4350583-republicans-divided-defense-bill-radiation-victims-compensation-mcconnell-johnson-hawley-crapo-schmitt/

    bojacobs, to Astronomy
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    "Deep-Ocean Plutonium Hints At A Nearby Kilonova 3-4 Million Years Ago"

    https://www.iflscience.com/deep-ocean-plutonium-hints-at-a-nearby-kilonova-3-4-million-years-ago-71976

    bojacobs, to climate
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    The same is true for radionuclides, as residents of Simi Valley found out when radioactive particles from the Santa Susana nuclear meltdown of 1959 (of which they were unaware) were discovered after the Woolsey Fire of 2018:

    "Wildfires can unlock toxic metal particles from soils, study finds"

    https://phys.org/news/2023-12-wildfires-toxic-metal-particles-soils.html

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    @LaNaehForaday Thank you for letting me/us know that. It is horrible for people not to be informed of risks like this that affect themselves and their families. And for companies that have done such contamination to not have to remediate the sites and inform local residents to the event, but also continue to receive government contracts that continue to put more people at risk for decades.

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