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Hello community!
We hope you all had a fun and safe Halloween and are enjoying your autumn festivities! First, we want to thank everyone who joined us at CRAFTING Our Power, the party to celebrate our first fellowship and share some education about Fermi 2, the nuclear industry, and looking towards a safe and just energy future.
We've got some more important news for you about staying healthy in the event of a nuclear crisis as well as updates on current events. As usual, our news comes from the unwavering watchdogging by our very own Grandmother Jessie. Let's get into it!
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Got KI?
Did you know? When exposed to nuclear radiation, your thyroid will absorb the radioactive iodine and make you susceptible to illness? Taking potassium iodide (KI) when exposed will neutralize the iodine and protect you from thyroid cancer. Did you also know? Despite living in the zone of threat of nuclear danger, most people are not informed of the threat of radiation exposure and there is no plan to disseminate KI to the public in the event of an accident. Go to our website to see how close you are to Fermi and maybe visit your local pharmacist for some KI tablets.
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Manhattan Project Waste: Update
The most recent nuclear drama has been the transportation of nuclear waste from New York to Michigan, specifically to Wayne County. This waste is the result of the United States’ first program for developing nuclear weapons: the infamous Manhattan Project, under the direction of J. Robert Oppenheimer. The waste would be relocated 25 miles west of Detroit on Interstate 94, allowing New York to decontaminate and industrialize the original waste site. The cities of Belleville, Romulus, Canton Township, Van Buren Township, and Wayne County have filed a lawsuit over this relocation: if New York doesn’t want its own waste, why should Michigan hold the bag? Shipments have been halted for now, but the lawsuit has been moved from state to federal court.
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Nuclear Energy is NOT Carbon-Neutral!
Pro-nuclear advocates claim nuclear energy is the way to go for a net zero carbon economy, but this illusion is fraught with misinformation and outright lies. We’ve included a list of talking points from Beyond Nuclear hacking into this myth. For one, while new reactors may not produce carbon while in operation, the amount of carbon produced in their construction and in the mining, milling, and transportation of uranium ore as well as the transportation and storage of waste far outweighs what the reactor would spare us. Read this month’s insert to learn more!
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Thanks for supporting us and a safer world powered by renewables.
We’re in this together!
Peace and Safety,
The CRAFT Team
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Citizen's Resistance At Fermi Two (CRAFT) is an Indigenous-led, grassroots, organization, committed to an accessible, fair, and just energy future for all! CRAFT originally formed after the Christmas Day 1993 incident at the Fermi2 nuclear reactor that dumped 1.5 million gallons of untreated toxic, radioactive water into Lake Erie. We will continue to push for the closing of Fermi2, and for a safer world powered by renewables.
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