Atomic Bamboozle: The False Promise of a Nuclear Renaissance
Post March, 2024 presentation resources
For more info & sign up for “get involved” https://www.atomicbamboozle.com/
Short Synopsis/logline of film
ATOMIC BAMBOOZLE follows anti-nuclear activists, tribal leaders, scientists and attorneys as they draw lessons from the decades-long campaign to shut down the Trojan Nuclear Power plant in Oregon and extend those lessons into a new struggle to stop small modular nuclear reactors (SMRs) that are being aggressively promoted by the Department of Energy and nuclear industry in response to the climate crisis.
Watch it (again) ICYMI:
**To preview, rent, or buy DVD, contact: outreach@jhaaken.com
*Watch at the Uranium Film Festival. Fri-Sun April 12-14, at Northwest Film Forum, Seattle Sun. April 14, 3-8 pm; Schedule: Intro: 3:00 – 3:15 Atomic Bamboozle: 3:15 – 4:00 Ground Zero / Vfp: 4:00 – 4:20 The Nuns, The Priest, & The Bomb: 4:40 – 6:10 Golden Rule: 6:10 – 6:35 Veterans for Peace speakers Q&A: 6:35 – 6:50 Burial: 7:00 – 8:00 Sponsor: Washington Physicians for Social Responsibility. Info https://uraniumfilmfestival.org/en/usa-2024
Learn more: Why stop nuclear reactors?
*Go to websites:
Nuclear Free Northwest, Roger Lippman, nuclearfreenw.org
Beyond Nuclear beyondnuclear.org
South Seattle Climate Action Network southseattleclimate.org
Stop Nuclear Work Group: https://stopnuclearworkgroup.org/
For a copy of the Oregon Conservancy Foundation Resource Guide “Nuclear Power Unaffordable At Any Size” email Cathryn Chudy chudyca@gmail.com
*Read “Climate Crisis and the risks of nuclear power” by Roger Lippman
https://medium.com/@roger_85508/the-climate-crisis-and-the-risks-of-nuclear-power-ca0f76b1ac84
Watch “RADIOACTIVE: The Women of Three Mile Island”, (streaming now on Apple TV and Prime Video) followed by Webinar on March 28th at 8 pm ET: “Gender, Environmental Justice, and the Future of Nuclear Power” Hosted by SIERRA CLUB and BEYOND NUCLEAR, More info & register: Webinar Registration – Zoom
*More information about HALEU fuel, the fuel that will be needed for advanced reactor designs in development, including Energy Northwest’s proposed Xe-100 at Hanford. https://world-nuclear.org/information-library/nuclear-fuel-cycle/conversion-enrichment-and-fabrication/high-assay-low-enriched-uranium-(haleu).aspx
*Letters submitted to legislature from Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla and Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama, opposing Small Modular Nuclear Reactors at Hanford drive.google.com/file/d/14OoQT7kf0I5uIlA-8wmfWeQRD6F5cv7n/view and drive.google.com/file/d/1dtIXGuD3K41D8wlry_pQJ9Mh5kQoYfOC/view
*350 Seattle “False Solutions” 350Seattle.org/about-us-false-solutions/
Take action: Stop reactors & prevent taxpayer subsidies & liability for accidents, wastes, etc
*State: Ask Governor Inslee to veto or remove the $25M appropriation (Section 1037) in the Supplemental Capital Budget for Energy Northwest’s new nuclear reactor project proposed for Hanford
https://governor.wa.gov/contacting-governor/contacting-governors-office/send-gov-inslee-e-message
https://governor.wa.gov/office-governor/policy-advisors
*Ask your state legislators oppose all funding for nuclear reactors info@lwvskc.org
Write, call, or meet with them now that the session is over.
*Ask your U.S. Senators Cantwell and Murray to vote no on S.1111: The ADVANCE Act of 2023 Take a stand against a new bill that keeps US taxpayers on the hook for the full costs of nuclear disasters and promotes nuclear energy worldwide. S. 1111, the ADVANCE Act of 2023, is a comprehensive pro-nuclear bill that includes a host of provisions propping up the nuclear industry, including renewing the Price-Anderson Act. The most dangerous aspect of the bill is the renewal of the Price-Anderson Act, a 1957 law which caps the industry’s liability for nuclear disasters at only $13 billion. The Price-Anderson Act makes US taxpayers liable for the full costs of nuclear disasters – which could run into the hundreds of billions of dollars – and exempts the insurance industry from covering homeowners and businesses for damages from those disasters. The provisions included in S. 1111 would deepen the radioactive waste crisis and waste federal dollars on nuclear development, Let your Senators know that S. 1111 is bad news for US taxpayers and further entrenches the status quo of dirty, dangerous, and expensive nuclear power in the country and abroad. Take Action! Tell your Senators to STOP S.1111: The ADVANCE Act of 2023 (salsalabs.org)
*Write Letters to the Editor of your local papers
*Host movie screenings-see above
Sign this coordinated global effort by Climate Action Network Europe:
Civil society groups throughout the world join their voices calling for “safe, affordable and climate friendly energy for all”
Please sign this statement before March 14, calling for a non-radioactive and sustainable energy future.
Here’s the sign-up sheet — for groups only, please! The statement will be released in Brussels on March 24 to counter false promises of the “World Nuclear Summit” that will present nuclear power as the magic solution to the climate emergency – a dirty, dangerous distraction from real climate action based on energy efficiency & renewables.
Statement:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pPQol07GeKd6ezGJ7JHqX9CXHtZa-aRrL_DDOssFWao/edit
Sign-up Sheet:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfJVwBY00OLYX7aoAWOnqkk5Led22g2Z8BUt_u-dng4lrymcQ/viewform
| An academic reactor or reactor plant almost always has the following basic characteristics: | On the other hand, a practical reactor plant can be distinguished by the following characteristics: |
| (1) It is simple. (2) It is small. (3) It is cheap (4) It is light. (5) It can be built very quickly. (6) It is very flexible in purpose (’omnibus reactor’). (7) Very little development is required. It will use mostly off-the-shelf components. (8) The reactor is in the study phase. It is not being built now. | (1) It is being built now. (2) It is behind schedule. (3) It is requiring an immense amount of development on apparently trivial items. Corrosion, in particular, is a problem. (4) It is very expensive. (5) It takes a long time to build because of the engineering development problems. (6) It is large. (7) It is heavy. (8) It is complicated. |
| Admiral Hyman Rickover, June 1953 | |