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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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"Radioactive Objects Found at San Francisco's Hunters Point Naval Shipyard Raise New Concerns"

"The discoveries raise fresh questions about the city’s plans to build thousands of homes on one of the nation’s largest and most polluted Superfund sites amid ongoing cleanup efforts."

https://www.kqed.org/science/1985646/radioactive-object-found-at-san-franciscos-hunters-point-naval-shipyard-raises-new-concerns

bojacobs, to Astronomy
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Fission in space!

"Cosmic nuclear fission seen for 1st time in 'incredibly profound' discovery"

https://www.space.com/nuclear-fission-neutron-stars-heavy-elements-gold

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

bojacobs, to histodons
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"The city under the snow: that one time the US Army attempted to build a nuclear lair in Greenland"

@histodons

https://www.historynet.com/project-iceworm-army-attempted-to-build-nuclear-lair-greenland/

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    @inquiline not so sure about that handbasket part

    bojacobs, to nuclear
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    What America spent money on during the Cold War instead of actual security in the daily lives of its citizens ():

    "Throughout the world, our strategic focus stand guard over our way of life. But, if a general war engulfed the world, all our military power could be helpless.

    Unless our leaders could survive and control our forces before and during the holocaust, an aggressor could strike without fear of reprisal.

    Only the belief that we could control our forces throughout the entire spectrum of a general nuclear war would deter him from striking the first blow."

    1969 US Air Force film, declassified thanks to the National Security Archive.

    @histodons

    https://youtu.be/9lEvXowzhZ0

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    They are still trying to normalize nuclear materials as miraculous:

    "A Man Drank So Much Radium His Skull Literally Disintegrated"

    @histodons

    https://www.sciencealert.com/a-man-drank-so-much-radium-his-skull-literally-disintegrated

    bojacobs, to nuclear
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    This is besides the cost for electricity:

    "Regulators begin hearings on how much customers should pay for Georgia nuclear reactors.

    Commissioners began hearings Monday on the proposed deal, which would add $8.95 a month to a typical residential customer’s monthly bill, atop the $5.42 that Georgia Power is already collecting."

    https://www.macon.com/news/business/article282696788.html

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    "Sellafield, Europe’s most hazardous nuclear site, has a worsening leak from a huge silo of radioactive waste that could pose a risk to the public...

    The leak of radioactive liquid from one of the “highest nuclear hazards in the UK” – a decaying building at the vast Cumbrian site – is likely to continue to 2050."

    https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/dec/05/sellafield-nuclear-site-leak-could-pose-risk-to-public

    bojacobs, to nuclear
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    If you are in the LA area, there is a great exhibition at Cerritos College by a collective of women artists working on nuclear themes.

    "SWANS: Slow War Against the Nuclear State: Making Art After Alamogordo and Hiroshima and Bikini Atoll and Chernobyl and
    Fukushima and…"

    Check out the pdf below for details.

    @nuclearhumanities

    https://www.cerritos.edu/art-gallery/_includes/docs/Brochure-SWANS-final-small_ua.pdf

    bojacobs, to nuclear
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    "Nuclear safety in time of crisis or war"

    "Nuclear facilities can make tempting targets for combatants during periods of conflict and the on-going hostilities in Ukraine bring those fears to the fore. To date, reactor containments have not been deliberately targeted in Ukraine or Russia, but those nations with a nuclear development programme would be wise to consider the possibility."

    https://www.neimagazine.com/features/featurenuclear-safety-in-time-of-crisis-or-war-11305009/

    bojacobs, to nuclear
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    You get a check! And you get a check! And you!

    "Former chair of Ohio’s utility regulator indicted in nuclear bailout law scandal"

    https://www.wyso.org/2023-12-04/former-chair-of-ohios-utility-regulator-indicted-in-nuclear-bailout-law-scandal

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    "'Let us be a lesson', say Kazakhs wary of return to nuclear testing"

    @histodons

    https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/let-us-be-lesson-say-kazakhs-wary-return-nuclear-testing-2023-11-30/

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    If you want to read many of the declassified documents that show this evil at work:

    Henry Kissinger: The Declassified Obituary | National Security Archive https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/cold-war-henry-kissinger/2023-11-29/henry-kissinger-declassified-obituary-0

    bojacobs, to random
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    Never forget that Henry Kissinger began his reign of evil as a nuclear war strategist.

    bojacobs, to nuclear
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    Sounds easy:

    "Bovenbouw Architectuur and ono architectuur designed a communication center for the storage of low and medium-level radioactive waste in Dessel, Belgium. To remain relevant throughout the 300-year process required to decrease the radioactivity, the building must be able to adapt to unforeseeable changes over the centuries."

    @nuclearhumanities @sts

    https://www.archdaily.com/1009123/tabloo-a-visitor-centre-for-a-nuclear-waste-disposal-facility-bovenbouw

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    bojacobs, to nuclear
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    Open access:

    Grateful for the complex and detailed review of my book Nuclear bodies: the global hibakusha by Sonali Huria in the Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament.

    @sts @histodons @nuclearhumanities

    https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/25751654.2023.2286806?src=

    inquiline, to random
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    Once again I've blocked a number people today for how they're behaving towards others, in convos I'm not even in. (This place is gonna get a lot worse when US election gets closer, isn't it)

    bojacobs,
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    @inquiline everyplace is

    bojacobs, to sweden
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    Just like in Finland across the Baltic, Sweden determines that the very best place in the nation to put a deep geological storage site for spent nuclear fuel coincidentally happens to be an existing nuclear reactor site. How lucky can you get!

    More proof that our DGR siting choices reflect the politics and economics of current governments rather than long-term safety.

    @sts

    https://www.politico.eu/article/sweden-approve-nuclear-waste-storage-site/

    bojacobs, to nuclear
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    Do you feel more secure?

    $129 million to dismantle this nuclear fuel barge; $1 billion to dismantle a single nuclear powered aircraft carrier. New nuclear ships being built in the US "modernization" program.

    Tax funded nuclear Navy contracts never end.

    Did I mention the huge additional costs to "contain" this material for millennia?

    https://www.al.com/life/2023/10/project-to-dismantle-navy-nuclear-fueling-barge-in-mobile-is-complete.html

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    "‘Atomic Fallout’: Records reveal government downplayed, ignored health risks of St. Louis radioactive waste for decades"

    https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2023/jul/12/st-louis-landfill-toxic-superfund/

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    Too soon?

    "Clean-up of radioactive A-bomb remnants begins at former Staten Island uranium storage site"

    @histodons

    https://www.fox5ny.com/news/staten-island-radioactive-remnants-uranium-atomic-bomb-wwii

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    After reading this, search for the Navajo Birth Cohort to learn how uranium mining continues to harm people born decades after mining stopped:

    "'We didn't know we were poisoning ourselves': the deadly legacy of the US uranium boom.

    The Diné helped dig the raw materials to build the US’s nuclear arsenal, but were never told of the danger"

    @histodons @sts

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/nov/20/navajo-dine-uraminum-mining-poison

    bojacobs,
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    @histodons @sts

    Navajo Birth Cohort Study

    https://hsc.unm.edu/pharmacy/research/areas/nbcs-echo.html

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