Bo Jacobs
bojacobs@hcommons.social
<p>Nuclear historian, Emeritus Prof @ Hiroshima Peace Institute, visiting prof <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/UNSW" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>UNSW</span></a>. I research the global <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/hibakuksha" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>hibakuksha</span></a>, <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/nuclear" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>nuclear</span></a> testing, production, nuclear waste in deeptime & politics. </p><p>Book: Nuclear Bodies: The Global Hibakusha (Yale 2022).</p><p><a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/PDX" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>PDX</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/peace" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>peace</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/Hiro
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More than the sun is eclipsing
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Making radioactive waste less safe at #Hanford: &quot;Feds file to change way Eastern WA radioactive waste is treated” #nuclear https://www.tri-cityherald.com/news/local/hanford/article316829402.html
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#Nuclear and climate: &quot;New Mexico advocates urge feds to move barrels of radioactive waste amid wildfire risk” #NM https://sourcenm.com/2026/08/11/new-mexico-advocates-urge-feds-to-move-barrels-of-radioactive-waste-amid-wildfire-risk/
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Can you see the punchline here yet? What the nuke PR people have been shilling all along? “Heatwave expected to remove 15% of France&#39;s #nuclear capacity on Friday” https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/heatwave-expected-limit-15-frances-nuclear-fleet-friday-2026-08-13/
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This after the Woolsey Fire spread radiation around #LA in 2018: “California Officials Scrambled as Spring Wildfire Neared Former Nuclear Reactor Site, Emails Show” https://insideclimatenews.org/news/12082026/california-sandy-fire-santa-susana-nuclear-site-safety/
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Of course they do: “#Florida Makes It Harder for Residents Living on #Radioactive Soil From Former Phosphate Mines to Sue” #nuclear https://insideclimatenews.org/news/14082026/florida-law-makes-it-harder-to-sue-phosphate-mines-for-radioactive-so/
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“Permian Basin community seeks fix for #radium in its drinking water” #TX #nuclear https://www.texasobserver.org/permian-basin-radium-drinking-water/
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“It sells the radioactive device at the #nuclear place…” “Florida man arrested after Facebook Marketplace sale ends with radioactive device recovery” https://cbs12.com/news/local/crime-news-florida-man-arrested-after-facebook-marketplace-sale-ends-with-radioactive-device-recovery-florida-highway-patrol-south-florida-manatee-county-news-moisture-density-gauge-grand-theft-radiation-device-photos
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His war crimes remain uncharged. https://flipboard.social/@newsguyusa/116693011508197928
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“CIA officer arrested with gold bars worked on Pentagon&#39;s #nuclear program, sources say” https://www.nbcnews.com/video/cia-officer-arrested-with-gold-bars-worked-on-pentagon-s-nuclear-program-sources-say-264465477840
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“Ukraine: Russian drone hits #nuclear-fuel storage facility” #Chornobyl #Chernobyl https://www.dw.com/en/ukraine-russian-drone-hits-nuclear-fuel-storage-facility/a-77448846?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf
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Just like “recycling” #nuclear fuel! https://vis.social/@infobeautiful/116715533361995031
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Your AI graphic for your blog post makes me doubt the value of reading it.
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Ummm….. &quot;Russian ship that sank near #Spain may have been carrying #nuclear reactors to North Korea. Western military may have targeted the Ursa Major, which went down after mysterious explosions, reports suggest” https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/12/russian-ship-ursa-major-sank-spain-nuclear-reactors-north-korea?CMP=oth_b-aplnews_d-1
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Good things are also happening: &quot;Sharp drop in ‘forever chemicals’ in seabird eggs hailed as win for regulation: Levels of #Pfas in northern gannet eggs in Canada fell up to 74% over 55-year period of study” https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/may/11/pfas-seabird-eggs-forever-chemicals
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“The destroyer of worlds: Daniel Everitt-Lock on experiences of atomic testing and Our Planet, The People, My Blood” #documentary #nuclear https://www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/feature/2026-05-07-interview-with-daniel-everitt-lock-about-our-planet-the-people-my-blood-feature-story-by-jennie-kermode
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The toxic disaster in East Palestine, Ohio after the chemical releases following the train derailment reveal classic #toxic disaster management techniques. The true extent of the danger and seriousness of the event is not made clear to people when it happens. Instead their anxieties are managed. This is a way to protect capital, and liability rather than living creatures. It is similar to the denial of there having been #nuclear meltdowns at #Fukushima for three months by the government of...
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Fire burning soil and forest that have a large amount of radioactive particles results in the aerosolizing of these particles which then spread, again, downwind: “Fire is spreading in the Chernobyl exclusion zone after drone crash” #Chornobyl #nuclear #radiation https://www.newscientist.com/article/2525884-fire-is-spreading-in-the-chernobyl-exclusion-zone-after-drone-crash/
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Hanford! &quot;The spill of cesium and strontium in the soil beneath the 324 Building is so radioactively hot that it would be lethal to a worker on direct contact within two minutes, DOE has said previously.” #Hanford #nuclear https://www.tri-cityherald.com/news/local/hanford/article276863128.html
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He can still launch nukes, anytime he wants!
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Now that you’re focused, a reminder that atomic bombs didn&#39;t “drop&quot; on #Hiroshima &amp; #Nagasaki: The US conducted #nuclear attacks against the people of Hiroshima &amp; Nagasaki. There&#39;s a difference
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FYI, the only timeline cleanse is to get off the timeline Your obsessions do not provide the cleanse you imagine