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DoomsdaysCWThe Rise and Fall of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuScale" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NuScale</a>: a nuclear cautionary taleKelly Campbell October 29, 2024"A decade ago, NuScale, the Oregon-based small modular nuclear company born at Oregon State University, was on a roll. Promising a new era of nuclear reactors that were cheaper, easier to build and safer, their Star Wars-inspired artist renditions of a yet to be built reactor gleamed like a magic bullet."As of last year, NuScale was the furthest along of any reactor design in obtaining Nuclear Regulatory Commission licensing and was planning to build the first small modular nuclear reactor in the United States. Its plan was to build it in Idaho to serve energy to a consortium of small public utility districts in Utah and elsewhere, known as <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/UAMPS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UAMPS</a>. "This home-grown Oregon company was lauded in local and national media. According to project backers, a high-tech solution to climate change was on the horizon, and an Oregon company was leading the way. It seemed almost too good to be true. "And it was. "Turns out, NuScale was a <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HouseOfCards" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HouseOfCards</a>. The UAMPS project’s price tag more than doubled and the timeline was pushed back repeatedly until it was seven years behind schedule. Finally, UAMPS saw the writing on the wall and wisely backed out in November, 2023."After losing their customer, NuScale’s stock plunged, it laid off nearly a third of its workforce, and it was sued by its investors and investigated for investor fraud. Then its CEO sold off most of his stock shares. "NuScale’s project is the latest in a long line of failed nuclear fantasies. "Why should you care? A different nuclear company, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/XEnergy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#XEnergy</a>, now in partnership with <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AmazonCorp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AmazonCorp</a>, wants to build and operate small modular <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/nuclear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#nuclear</a> reactors [<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SMRs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SMRs</a>] near the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ColumbiaRiver" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ColumbiaRiver</a>, 250 miles upriver from <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PortlandOR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PortlandOR</a>. <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BillGates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BillGates</a>’s darling, the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Natrium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Natrium</a> reactor in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Wyoming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Wyoming</a> is also plowing ahead. Both proposals are raking in the Inflation Reduction Act and other taxpayer funded subsidies. The danger: Money and time wasted on these <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FalseSolutions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FalseSolutions</a> to the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ClimateCrisis</a> divert public resources from <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/renewables" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#renewables</a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnergyEfficiency" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EnergyEfficiency</a> and other faster, more cost-efficient and safer ways to address the climate crisis. "A recent study from the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis concluded that small modular nuclear reactors are still too expensive, too slow to build and too risky to respond to the climate crisis."While the nuclear industry tries to pass itself off as 'clean,' it is an extremely dirty technology, beginning with <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/UraniumMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UraniumMining</a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/UraniumMilling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UraniumMilling</a> which decimates <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndigenousLands" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IndigenousLands</a>. Small modular nuclear reactors produce two to thirty times the radioactive waste of older nuclear designs, waste for which we have no safe, long-term disposal site. Any community that hosts a nuclear reactor will likely be saddled with its radioactive waste – forever. This harm falls disproportionately on <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Indigenous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Indigenous</a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LowIncome" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LowIncome</a> communities.:For those of us downriver, X-Energy’s plans to build at the Hanford Nuclear Site on the Columbia flies in the face of reason, as it would add more nuclear waste to the country’s largest nuclear cleanup site. "In <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Oregon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Oregon</a>, we have a state moratorium on building nuclear reactors until there is a vote of the people and a national waste repository. Every few years, the nuclear industry attempts to overturn this law at the Oregon Legislature, but so far it has been unsuccessful. This August, Umatilla County Commissioners announced they’ll attempt another legislative effort to overturn the moratorium. Keeping this moratorium is wise, given the dangerous distraction posed by the false solution of small modular nuclear reactors. Let’s learn from the NuScale debacle and keep our focus on a just transition to a clean energy future–one in which nuclear power clearly has no place." <a href="https://oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2024/10/29/the-rise-and-fall-of-nuscale-a-nuclear-cautionary-tale/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2024/10/29/the-rise-and-fall-of-nuscale-a-nuclear-cautionary-tale/</a><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnvironmentalRacism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EnvironmentalRacism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HoltecLies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HoltecLies</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearLies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NuclearLies</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TEPCOLied" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TEPCOLied</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoNukes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NoNukes</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoNukesForAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NoNukesForAI</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Hanford" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Hanford</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearPowerCorruptionAndLies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NuclearPowerCorruptionAndLies</a>

DoomsdaysCW<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a>’s federal cuts threaten <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Indigenous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Indigenous</a> communities They told U.S. House lawmakers that the administration’s “chainsaw approach” to government cuts will disproportionately harm <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndianCountry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IndianCountry</a>by Shondiin Silversmith, Mar 6, 2025"From securing funding for <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndianHealth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IndianHealth</a> Services and ongoing <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterSettlements" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WaterSettlements</a> to increasing investments in infrastructure, education and law enforcement, many Indigenous leaders and organizations are raising the alarm about the devastation that federal funding cuts could bring for <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NativeAmericans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NativeAmericans</a>."More than 60 tribal leaders and organizations from across Indian Country testified over three days to a U.S. House of Representatives Appropriations subcommittee on the federal funding needs of Indigenous people and their communities nationwide."'I know there’s never enough funding to go around,' Gila River Indian Community Gov. Stephen Roe Lewis said, and he appreciates how the subcommittee has consistently set aside several days to hear Indian Country’s funding priorities."'It is the process that starts the funding decisions for tribal programs, staffing and priorities for this administration,' he added. Tribal leaders and organizations gave five-minute testimonies to the subcommittee from Feb. 25 to Feb. 27. "Lewis used his five minutes to discuss the Trump administration’s actions and their impact on his community."There is 'real fear' within tribal communities about what is happening in Washington, D.C., he said, referencing the freezing of federal funding and the mass firing of federal employees across the government.[...]"He added that the cuts are being made without considering how they will impact services. Rather than making the government more efficient and effective, it is 'creating a federal workforce that is paralyzed by fear.'"Lewis called the administration’s actions <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/destabilizing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#destabilizing</a> and said they will have a disproportionate impact on Indian Country."'The government-to-government relationship is only as strong as our federal partner,' he said. 'And right now, there is a real concern that the federal side of this partnership has the real potential of being dismantled.'"Read more: <a href="https://ictnews.org/news/tribal-leaders-sound-alarm-as-trumps-federal-cuts-threaten-indigenous-communities-" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://ictnews.org/news/tribal-leaders-sound-alarm-as-trumps-federal-cuts-threaten-indigenous-communities-</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USPol</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WaterIsLife</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LandIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LandIsLife</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AirIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AirIsLife</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RespectTheTreaties" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RespectTheTreaties</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/USGovtCleanUpYourMess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USGovtCleanUpYourMess</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/UraniumMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UraniumMining</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/UraniumMilling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UraniumMilling</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndigenousHealth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IndigenousHealth</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndigenousNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IndigenousNews</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BadDOGE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BadDOGE</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DOGE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DOGE</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HealthCare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HealthCare</a>

DoomsdaysCWBlog: Voices of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Decolonization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Decolonization</a><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FirstNations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FirstNations</a> chiefs shouldn’t be duped by the ‘<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/nuclear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#nuclear</a>-is-green' deceptionby William Eric Altvater, February 6, 2025"Some First Nation Chiefs are victims of shenanigans, not unlike the swindle behind the purchase of Manhattan. The federal government needs the support of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Indigenous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Indigenous</a> peoples to expand nuclear power generation capacity in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Canada</a>. "For millennia, the cornerstones of the Indigenous people that inhabit Turtle Island, now known as North America, held all that is essential to life, in reverence. Every decision considered the next 7 generations. These cornerstones are crumbling."Newcomers, armed with the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Colonizing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Colonizing</a> tool, 'The <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DoctrineOfDiscovery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DoctrineOfDiscovery</a>' and their mentality of superiority, invaded the land of those they called 'Savages,' almost totally exterminating <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Skicinuwok" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Skicinuwok</a>, People of The Earth."Determined to bestow Christianity and civility to this wild untamed population, old growth forests were cut, rivers and streams were dammed to power sawmills, roads and railroads were built, bridges erected. All to create an infrastructure for <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#capitalism</a>, a system to make a <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/profit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#profit</a>, that morphed into <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/greed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#greed</a>, a word of foreign root. This unbridled desire for progress has ruined what was once called Paradise."Now most water is not fit to drink, clean air is scarce, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/deforestation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#deforestation</a> is rampant, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/biodiversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#biodiversity</a> loss out of control, plants genetically modified, food manufactured with unpronounceable chemicals, caged fish starved of oxygen while being fed chicken feathers and pig parts, cancer cases in the millions, the list goes on."As the population increased over this continent the available sources for power generation have not been able to satisfy the insatiable desires of the 'bigger, better, faster, more is never enough' mentality. Some have finally acknowledged the fact that <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FossilFuels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FossilFuels</a> are not the golden egg they were once deemed to be."So-called '<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GreenEnergy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GreenEnergy</a>' is required to slow the blind drive to extinction of man; man, who is considered by some to be the most intelligent creature to ever roam Earth. Unfortunately, the lure of riches and the corruption of self-serving purposes have led man to stray from practices that nurture everything required to sustain life on this tiny blue marble floating through the universe."<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearPower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NuclearPower</a> is now being touted as being 'Green.' It is not. Big money corporations are lobbying legislators to convince them and the public that it is. They are also lobbying to convince the public that they should foot the bill in the form of taxes and rate hikes, for a process that pollutes from the day it starts. Water is life. As soon as <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/uranium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#uranium</a> is mined from the earth it begins to contaminate the water in surrounding aquifers."When the uranium is processed sufficiently, it is used as fuel for reactors where it generates heat while delivering electricity, not just for essential needs, but also for many things once considered luxuries. This fission generated heat is then dumped into nearby waters where it kills thousands, if not millions of small beings that form the basis of life itself."After this radioactive fuel is depleted, it is stored in various containers where it will stay radioactive for eons. Indigenous <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Grandmothers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Grandmothers</a> have labelled it 'Forever Dangerous.'"The power generated during the fission process benefits only those who exist today as the process occurs, not those born tomorrow or next week or next month. All the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RadioactiveWaste" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RadioactiveWaste</a> and the inherent danger it creates is left to future generations, kicking the can down the road."What better place to dump this waste than in an area with a population that has witnessed Newcomers enrich themselves for hundreds of years? Yes, what better place than a population that has been targeted for assimilation, suffered theft of lands, witnessed the taking of naturally bestowed rights? A population that has been subjected to racial Indian Act legislation essentially stripping away all that sustained this population for thousands of years."Yes, let us give the Indians some more shiny beads and trinkets so that they willingly agree to care for our radioactive garbage. How do we do this? Let’s talk to the Chief and Council. Let’s wine and dine them. Let’s give them some money, take them to dinner, buy some drinks and make them feel all festive and most of all make them think we are looking out for their best interests. Some Chiefs have taken the bait."Egregious as it may be, this is exactly what is happening in some Indigenous communities contrary to the will of the majority. Elected Chiefs are continuing the deception as they are blinded and professing the 'Nuclear is Green' mantra. They have lost connection with the Spirit of Ancestors and traditional values. They need to have a serious introspection and realize that looking forward, we need only look back at what has sustained us to this point in time. We need not do any more than that."Eric lives in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PeskotomuhkatiNation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PeskotomuhkatiNation</a> territory in Maine and stands shoulder to shoulder with his Peskotomuhkati relations in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NewBrunswick" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NewBrunswick</a> in the struggle to achieve Canadian Government recognition.<a href="https://www.wabanakireach.org/first_nations_chiefs_shouldn_t_be_duped_by_the_nuclear_is_green_deception_by_william_altvater" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.wabanakireach.org/first_nations_chiefs_shouldn_t_be_duped_by_the_nuclear_is_green_deception_by_william_altvater</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoNukes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NoNukes</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoNewNukes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NoNewNukes</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WaterIsLife</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AirIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AirIsLife</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/UraniumMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UraniumMining</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/UraniumMilling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UraniumMilling</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LeaveItInTheGround" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LeaveItInTheGround</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Greenwashing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Greenwashing</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearIsNotCarbonFree" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NuclearIsNotCarbonFree</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearIsNotGreen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NuclearIsNotGreen</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CanadaPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CanadaPol</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearWaste" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NuclearWaste</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearIndustry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NuclearIndustry</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TEPCOLies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TEPCOLies</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HoltecLies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HoltecLies</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearColonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NuclearColonialism</a>

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