The Twin Cities along with 20 Million Americans Rely on the Mississippi for Drinking Water. Is It Safe?
Exposed: The Mississippi Water Crisis You're Not Being Told About
A Community's Cry for Justice and Protection
A formal complaint by residents of Monticello, MN alleging that Xcel Energy's Monticello nuclear plant is endangering public health and the Mississippi River through tritium leaks and the deliberate, undisclosed evaporation of tritiated water over the community. The complainants demand transparency, accountability, stricter regulations, and an independent investigation into allegations of mismanagement and cover-ups, to protect the environment and communities reliant on the river.
Noteworthy: This complaint was serendipitously sent on the same evening that "Wakan Gli," the sacred white buffalo calf, was born. NEWS Article.
A River Runs Through. It Why Native Americans Must Organize
The document emphasizes the urgent need for Native Americans to unite and fight against the expansion of nuclear power, which poses a severe threat to their sacred lands, waters, and communities. The planned expansion, driven by the demands of the AI industry, will lead to increased uranium mining, further endangering Indigenous territories and exacerbating existing health disparities. The Mississippi River, currently threatened by contamination, serves as a stark example of the risks posed to all major rivers across the nation due to this reckless expansion.
The NRC and EPA's Toxic Double Standard
The flyer reveals the alarming disparity between the EPA's radiation safety standards and those for other toxins, emphasizing the significantly higher cancer risk permitted for radiation in drinking water. It criticizes the outdated tritium limit, highlighting its lack of scientific basis and the particular vulnerability of pregnant women, unborn babies, and children to radiation-induced cancers.
Monticello Times: NRC Changes Stance
Initially downplaying the leak of 400,000 gallons of radioactive water, the NRC now acknowledges the significance of the event and claims to work on improving communication with the public and increase oversight of such incidents. However, critics disagree they are being forthright and are instead misleading the public.
NukeWatch.org
Nukewatch, an organization specializing in nuclear safety and environmental protection, has a proven track record of exposing instances where the NRC and other regulatory bodies have been reluctant to inform the public about potential nuclear risks. Their work highlights a concerning pattern of agencies prioritizing the image of nuclear power over transparency and public safety.
WavesforWhales.com
Waves for Whales is an innovative movement designed to bring attention to critical environmental issues, including the tritium leak in Monticello, through a fun, family-friendly approach. While it maintains a lighthearted tone, the message is serious: protecting our environment is urgent, and this movement is a call for collective awareness and action to preserve both marine life and local ecosystems.
One Big Chart: how does the cost of nuclear power compare to renewables?
Nuclear power from either large-scale reactors or small modular reactors (SMR) is far more expensive than electricity generated with renewables, according to the report. This is true even when factoring in the the cost of building transmission and storage infrastructure to support large scale wind and solar.
Why Germany ditched nuclear before coal—and why it won’t go back.
Its motivations included: a distrust of technocracy; ecological, environmental, and safety fears; and suspicions that nuclear energy could engender nuclear proliferation. That, in turn, turbocharged the national deployment of renewables, which ballooned from 6.3 percent of gross domestic electricity consumption in 2000 to 51.8 percent in 2023.
A low-cancer county has now become a high-cancer county.
Death rates in southern Ohio, especially in Pike County, are rising sharply and are among the highest in the U.S., according to two recent reports, which raises concerns about past, present and future exposures to toxic radiation from the Portsmouth nuclear plant in Piketon.
Health studies have never been a priority in Portsmouth’s long history. A federal analysis of plant workers only looked at deaths before 1991. Another federal study near U.S. nuclear plants, including Portsmouth, only used data from 1950 to 1984. Both are outdated.
Why nuclear energy is not clean or green
Dr Chanda Siddoo-Atwal, primary biochemist of Moondust Cosmetics Ltd, examines the realities of nuclear energy
Nuclear Power Grab: The Betrayal Threatening Clean Energy's Gains and Future, by SavetheMississippi.com
The AI boom may give Three Mile Island a new life supplying power to Microsoft's data centers, By MARC LEVY and MATT O'BRIEN, Associated Press
U.S. can get to 100% clean energy with wind, water, solar and zero nuclear, Stanford professor says.
A prominent Stanford University professor has outlined a roadmap for the United States to meet its total energy needs using 100% wind, water and solar by 2050 without the need for any additional nuclear power plants.
Monticello Draft EIS Ignores Climate Change, Federal Law. Nukewatch.org
The report singles out Monticello in an appendix, finding that as the unit is located in the flood plain of the Mississippi River, the reactor’s “Exposure for Selected Natural Hazards” includes “Flood Hazard” which it rates as “High.”
AI revives ‘zombie’ nuclear plants
By CATHERINE MOREHOUSE, MOHAR CHATTERJEE and JORDAN WOLMAN - Politico.com
A shuttered nuclear plant rumbles back to life to power artificial intelligence at the site of the worst nuclear accident in U.S. history. What could possibly go wrong?
Exploring Tritium Dangers: Health and Ecosystem Risks of Internally Incorporated Radionuclides, by Arjun Makhijani, Ph.D - FREE E-BOOK DOWNLOAD in PDF!
Exploring Tritium Dangers: uses the tritium pollutant, which forms radioactive water, to illustrate the risks of taking any radioisotope into the human body. Tritium easily crosses the placenta (the book makes clear it is not the only radioisotope that does so) and can have cancer and non-cancer future generational impacts during pregnancy development.
Free to download for non-commercial use
Corrosion exceeds estimates at Michigan nuclear plant US wants to restart, regulator says
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Holtec, the company wanting to reopen the Palisades nuclear reactor in Michigan, found corrosion cracking in steam generators "far exceeded" estimates, the U.S. nuclear power regulator said in a document published on Wednesday.
President Joe Biden's administration this week finalized a $1.52 billion conditional loan guarantee to the Palisades plant…
Homes near St. Louis County creek are being tested after radioactive contamination found in yards.
ST. LOUIS (AP) — A federal agency is examining soil beneath homes in a small suburban St. Louis subdivision to determine if residents are living atop Cold War era nuclear contamination. But activists say the testing needs to be far more widespread.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is taking soil samples at six properties and a waterway contaminated after nuclear waste was dumped there in the 1960s.