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Susie Sunshine🙏🏼🌎 ☮️
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•Mother for 100% Clean Renewable Energy Systems •Humanist •Former Teacher •Former Dem/No PP •CA49 •Born@325ppm •She/Her •BLM •All views expressed are my own opinions •On unceeded Luiseño/Kumeyaay land:
📍near 3.6 Million lbs of nuclear waste at SONGS
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The nuclear industry and government have always known that nuclear power would cause cancers (fatal and non-fatal) and genetic effects. It's not a secret. This knowledge is available on the EPA website to everyone:
Screenshot of a 1976 document on the U.S. E.P.A., Environmental Protection Agency, website listing an estimate of how many cancers (fatal and non-fatal), genetic effects, and potential health effects will be caused by carbon-14 discharges from the U.S. LWR nuclear industry.
December 3, 2025 at 4:11 AM
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You said, "...cancer is not caused by living near a nuclear plant."

You are wrong.
That's misinformation &/or disinformation.

"Cancer Risks near Nuclear Facilities: The Importance of Research Design and Explicit Study Hypotheses"

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
"The possibility that radiation releases from nuclear facilities could cause cancer in surrounding populations has been of interest for more than two decades. Epidemiologic studies of spatial variation in cancer incidence or mortality have been conducted to investigate effects of unplanned releases as well as routine operations. For example, a case–control study of cancer among children < 5 years of age found that residence within 5 km of a nuclear facility was associated with a 61% [one-sided lower bound of the 95% confidence interval (CI), 26%] increased incidence of all cancer (Spix et al. 2008) and a 119% (lower bound of the 95% CI, 51%) excess risk of leukemia (Kaatsch et al. 2008a). A meta-analysis of geographic studies reported 23% (95% CI, 7–40%) higher incidence of leukemia among children 0–9 years of age living within 16 km of nuclear facilities (Baker and Hoel 2007)."
December 3, 2025 at 3:58 AM
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I can't read the article due to the paywall, but I'm curious if the health effects could possibly be caused from Hanford Site radioactive waste contaminating the ground water and the Columbia River. 🤷🏼‍♀️
Google map of Morrow County, Oregon. Hanford Site, Washington, (the most toxic place in America) is flagged to the north along the Columbia River that flows above northern Morrow County.
December 1, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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"Read 'Advanced' Isn't Always Better
Assessing the Safety, Security, and Environmental Impacts of Non-Light-Water Nuclear Reactors"
Edwin Lyman

While Stellarium might be better in Sustainability, it will be significantly worse in Safety & Nuclear Proliferation/Terrorism.
#PhaseOutNuclearEnergy
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https://www.ucs.org/resources/advanced-isnt-always-better "TABLE 2: How NLWRs Compare with LWRs on Safety, Sustainability, and Proliferation Risk" https://www.ucs.org/resources/advanced-isnt-always-better Molten Salt-Fueled Reactors Safety and Security Risk https://www.ucs.org/resources/advanced-isnt-always-better Sustainability https://www.ucs.org/resources/advanced-isnt-always-better Nuclear Proliferation/Terrorism
November 28, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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You have a PhD in Microbiology, right?
This is not your area of expertise.
See Page 2 of this document specifically, then read the whole paper. Maybe then you'll understand why you're not getting the praise you seem to desire.

web.stanford.edu/group/efmh/j...
"Advocates of CC and DAC policies often reference an IPCC report22 to support their contention that these technologies are both beneficial and needed for fighting climate change. CC is intended to reduce anthropogenic CO2 emissions from point sources. DAC is intended to offset all other anthropogenic CO2 emissions. However, whereas many regulatory bodies develop both air pollution and climate policies, no explicit effort is made in policies themselves promoting either CC or DAC to address air pollution or energy security simultaneously with climate. Attaching CC to fossil and bioenergy electricity-generating and industrial point sources and using DAC to offset other CO2 emissions, have been found, in case studies, to increase air pollution, CO2, private energy costs, fossil mining, and/or land use relative to using WWS.23−26 "To date, though, no study has examined the social energy cost (private energy cost plus health cost plus climate cost) of implementing CC and DAC and their associated pipelines, storage, and energy requirements versus the social cost of implementing WWS, on a country or the world, to address climate change."
November 27, 2025 at 6:43 AM
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Tesla Bros. 🤦🏼‍♀️
Cartoon meme, "Elon Musk says he will give $100 million to whoever creates the best carbon capture technology..." Bernie Sanders sitting in chair, "They're called trees, fool, designed by Mother Nature. How about using some of your money to help protect her?" Meme: "When you praise electric cars but it ends up being bad for the environment." (Dogecoin, Bitcoin) Meme of Tech Bros talking to gullible city engineers: "Self-driving and electric cars as a solution to congestion and climate change continue to make profit by reinforcing the automotive industrial complex."
November 26, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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"Trump Administration folks set to carve up Earth by Steve Greenberg"

#Thanksgiving
#Thanksgiving2025
#ClimateActionNow
"Trump Administration folks set to carve up Earth by Steve Greenberg." Illustration of earth as a turkey on a cutting board that says, "2nd Trump Administration". Knives have writing on them that say, "Climate change deniers," "Enviro safeguards cutters," "Coal," "Gas," "Fossil fuels profiteers," and "Paris accords rejectors."
November 26, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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So Putin, MbS, & Trump are now a throuple? Great... 🤦🏼‍♀️
www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2018...
www.cnbc.com/2025/11/18/t...
"Putin's Saudi bromance is part of a bigger plan" "Russian President Vladimir Putin and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman greet each other at the Group of 20 summit in Buenos Aires on Nov. 30 as U.S. President Donald Trump looks on." Dec 6, 2018 "U.S. President Donald Trump (R) speaks during a bilateral meeting with Crown Prince and Prime Minister Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia (L) in the Oval Office of the White House on November 18, 2025 in Washington, DC." Win McNamee | Getty Images
November 20, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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What perfect album came out the year you turned 16?
Album cover of General Public, ...all the rage
November 17, 2025 at 7:16 AM
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Thank you San Luis Obispo Mothers for Peace and all of the groups listed (Beyond Nuclear, NIRS, PSR, Sierra Club,...)!
#LinearNoThreshold
#LNT
#NoSafeDose
#ReferenceGirl
Letter to NRC about LNT Letter to NRC about LNT Letter to NRC about LNT Letter to NRC about LNT
November 16, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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"...Karen Silkwood's story played a tiny part in the world's fight for nuclear power, and it is a friendly but deadly reminder to all of us."

"Karen Silkwood did play a role in raising awareness about the risks and dangers of nuclear power."

🌞👏🏼

podcasts.happyscribe.com/radioactive-...
Transcription of "Radioactive: The Karen Silkwood Mystery Ep. 5" https://podcasts.happyscribe.com/radioactive-the-karen-silkwood-mystery/ep-c33a8048-5a47-49f4-8f99-54e4e7d3f355 "00:29:13 The wreck was never the crime Anyway, it was the contamination and how it happened. 00:29:19 For me, searching for the answer seems to hurt more than it helps. 00:29:23 If the wreck was completely mom's fault, who does that exonerate? No one. Karen Silkwood's story played a tiny part in the world's fight for nuclear power, and it is a friendly but deadly reminder to all of us. 00:29:38 She was significant, a catalyst for awareness, and that is more than most. 00:29:44 Karen Silkwood did play a role in raising awareness about the risks and dangers of nuclear power. 00:29:55 She wanted safe working conditions, and she tried to do something about that."
November 15, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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CCS & nuclear are not good climate solutions.
www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/w...
https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg3/figures/summary-for-policymakers/figure-spm-7/ IPCC chart of Mitigation options and Potential contribution to net emission reduction, 2030
November 15, 2025 at 4:10 AM
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I don't think Fossil thermal + CCS and Nuclear power should be called "cleantech" if they're about as poorly efficient as fossil thermal.
#Greenwashing
#PhaseOutFossilFuels
#PhaseOutNuclearEnergy
#KeepItInTheGround
#ElectrifyEverything
Incumbent fossil tech Fossil thermal 30-40% efficiency Scaling electrotech Wind & solar 100% efficiency Other cleantech Fossil thermal + CCS <30% efficiency Nuclear Power ≈33% efficiency
November 14, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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#IndianPoint
I don't know if it's true, but I don't doubt it.

Colonialism at its finest?
Pollute native land by uranium mining
Use their name
Kill fish & pollute the river
Ship waste back and bury it there
#Holtec

We need:
#ConsentBased
#EnvironmentalJustice

Or simply:
#PhaseOutNuclearEnergy
"Ep 397: Brian Vangor - Author, Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant" https://www.lastenergy.com/titansofnuclear/experts/brianvangor Excerpt: "Sarah Howorth [00:12:40] Yeah, that sounds like a special experience, though, for sure. And then, switching gears a little bit, was Indian Point built on or near Indigenous land? Brian Vangor [00:12:51] Well, we do know that there were Native American tribes to the north in Peekskill and to the south in Ossining. So, Indian Point is a made up name. Real quickly, the history before Indian Point Park was the Hudson River Day Line Company, which was the major steamship company from 1861 all the way up until the mid-1900s, 1971, in fact... By the 1920s, they were having a problem competing with nearby Bear Mountain, which was a very popular place to go. So hundreds, if not thousands of people would get on the boats every morning in New York City, come up the Hudson River. Everybody would get off at Bear Mountain and the boats would go up the rest the river empty. Brian Vangor [00:13:37] By the 1920s, they were trying to figure out a way to remediate that. So, they bought 320 acres south of Peekskill, right on the Hudson River, and they figured out, "Let's come up with a name that's really attractive to the younger passengers. We've got Bear Mountain. Let's make this Indian Point." Sounds pretty cool, but as far as tribes nearby, north and south of us, not where we are. Sarah Howorth [00:14:05] Okay, gotcha. I was just curious if there was a relationship fostered with Indigenous people in the area or if they had a say in how the land was being used or the fact that a plant would be constructed. But it seems like they maybe weren't close enough to that area? Brian Vangor [00:14:23] No, they weren't. And again, it was strictly a fabricated name."
November 12, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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The nuclear industry also desperately wants us to believe we need AI and data centers and must power them with nuclear energy. 💰

#PhaseOutFossilFuels
#PhaseOutNuclearEnergy
#KeepItInTheGround
#ElectrifyEverything

Support 100% clean, renewable energy systems! 🌞
Google search results for, "nuclear energy for AI and data centers" More Google search results for, "nuclear energy for AI and data centers"
November 8, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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Click on the images for a description of the transcript about U.S. Air Force General Lee Butler, former U.S. Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, and the U.N. Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) or Nuclear Weapon Ban Treaty.
https://youtu.be/nH6xkjMNdnk?si=WhxdUqDmZ9YYA3d_ Transcript of around 14:23 to 14:49, United States Air Force General Lee Butler, Commander In Chief of the entire nuclear war machine, "...was so horrified by the incoherent madness of nuclear deterrence planning, that after retiring, he spoke out against it." https://youtu.be/nH6xkjMNdnk?si=WhxdUqDmZ9YYA3d_ Transcript of around 14:49 to 15;21, Green, Butler, and former U.S. Defense Secretary Robert McNamara urged the Japanese government to stop relying on U.S. nuclear protection. https://youtu.be/nH6xkjMNdnk?si=WhxdUqDmZ9YYA3d_ Transcript of around 15:29 to 15:59 U.N. Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, the threat or use of nuclear weapons is not permitted under international law.
October 31, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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I miss the old NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt.
I can't stomach this anymore.
I'll stick with Democracy Now, PBS, AP News, Zeteo,...
Any other suggestions?
Screen capture of the NBC Nightly News showing a clip by the Spokeswoman for the Israeli Prime Minister and my comment: "Please stop showing Israeli propaganda. Israeli forces have destroyed Gaza and killed 20,000 children in two years. Maybe that's why their demands can't be met. This used to be my favorite source of news daily, but between this and Trump propaganda, I don't even want to watch this show anymore."
October 29, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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"Connolly is a critic of NATO who has accused the United States and the United Kingdom of enabling genocide in Gaza."

"...Connolly vowed to be a 'voice for peace, a voice that builds on our policy of neutrality, a voice that articulates the existential threat posed by climate change.'"

🌞🇮🇪😎
Democracy Now! ... "Connolly is a critic of NATO who has accused the United States and the United Kingdom of enabling genocide in Gaza." ... "Addressing supporters in Dublin on Saturday, Connolly vowed to be a 'voice for peace, a voice that builds on our policy of neutrality, a voice that articulates the existential threat posed by climate change.'"
October 27, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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#SanClementeGreen
#Canister72
#SanOnofreNuclearGeneratingStation
#SONGS #SCE #SDG&E
#NoCredibleScenario? 🤨
#PhaseOutNuclearEnergy
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2019 San Clemente Green photos of temporary, thin-walled, nuclear waste storage canister 72 showing a damage: a gouge and corrosion.
October 24, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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October 18, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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October 18, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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Awesome job, Carlsbad! 🏖️✌🏼
#NoKings
Two people in unicorn costumes holding flags.
October 18, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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Isodope, Isabelle Boemke, is a high school drop out, not an expert on nuclear energy.
#ChooseYourSourcesWisely
"Boemeke began life as the daughter of a middle-class Brazilian family. She dropped out of school to chase a modelling career which gave her the opportunity to travel the world, where she encountered the reality of the global class divide. A lifetime later, she now has powerful friends and air conditioning. Her husband, a billionaire, helped found AirBnb, and holds senior positions in the Trump administration, one focused on design and the other as part of Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency program, or DOGE, aimed at cost-cutting within the U.S. government. He also sits on the board of Tesla. Billionaire Elon Musk is quoted favorably in Boemeke’s book. She counts Grimes as a personal friend who, Boemeke explains, lent her support to her activist campaign to keep the Diablo Canyon nuclear plant open. The pro-nuclear Breakthrough Institute is name-checked and its co-founder, PR guru Michael Shellenberger, from whom the organization has actively distanced itself in recent years, is falsely described as a journalist throughout the book. Upon publication, Gwynth Paltrow hosted Boemeke in the Hamptons, where they posed together with a copy of the book. Boemeke also posted photos of American singer Katy Perry, holding a copy of Rad Future in public. Boemecke herself maintains a nonprofit, Save Clean Energy." "Lovins suggested that Stanford Professor Mark Jacobson was a better candidate for the title of 'daddy of 100 percent renewables', even if he had come to similar conclusions after 'an independent intellectual pursuit in the public interest, not a religion or cult'. He added that he was surprised to learn he had 'groupies', and that the pursuit of renewables to address climate change is not 'arbitrary' as Boemeke suggests, but supported by 'science and data' showing that renewables are 'the best buy and the cleanest, safety, fairest and most secure choice' for responding to climate change."
October 15, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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"...the NRC has ceased normal operations."
😧
That is not reassuring to read!!!
It does, however, strengthen the case for 100% clean, renewable energy systems!
#GovernmentShutdown
#PhaseOutFossilFuels
#PhaseOutNuclearEnergy
#RenewablesForPeace☮️
www.nrc.gov/node/1
NRC website, Alert: "Due to a lapse in appropriations, the NRC has ceased normal operations. However, excepted and exempted activities necessary to maintain critical health and safety functions—as well as essential progress on designated critical activities, including those specified in Executive Order 14300—will continue, consistent with the OMB-Approved NRC Lapse Plan." https://www.nrc.gov/node/1
October 14, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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#PhaseOutFossilFuels
#PhaseOutNuclearEnergy
#RenewablesForPeace☮️
Oregon State University: "Management of waste from fusion reactors" College of Engineering Unit: Nuclear Science and Engineering Project Team Member(s): Ali Binamro and Suhum Alzahrani Project ID: NSE475.9 https://events.engineering.oregonstate.edu/expo2023/project/management-waste-fusion-reactors "Fusion energy has been promoted as clean energy mostly as a result of the absence of production of high-level waste. It is low-level waste and intermediate-level waste. However, the quantity of fusion waste is much larger than that of the fission reactors (de Vicente et al, 2022). "There are two areas that must be focused on in the fusion energy system which are the inventory of activated materials, and the neutron produced during the operation. In the first area, the radionuclides of concern in fusion reactors were found to be tritium, carbon-14, and activation products. In the second area, the material used in the wall of the reactor might become radioactive because of the high neutron produced during the operation of the reactor. Although most think that fusion reactors do not have any radionuclides of concern. There are still radionuclides that are emitted in fusion reactors. The radionuclides that are of concern in fusion reactors are Tritium, Carbon-14, and activation products." "The existing US low-level waste repositories will quickly become filled with the sizeable number of intermediate radioactive materials that produced from fusion reactors. Therefore, the fusion studies neglected the potential issue of fusion radioactive waste, treating it as merely a disposal problem. The focus on transformative technologies was sparked by worries about the environment, a shortage of waste repositories, excessive disposal costs, and the weight of radioactive waste on future generations (Idaho National Laboratory)."
October 14, 2025 at 5:31 PM