Chris Spencer

The Atomic Burden We Inherit

From Eisenhower's "Atoms for Peace" farce to Biden's nuclear entrenchment anew, every U.S. president since FDR has sacrificed public safety at the altar of atomic power. Commercial plutonium profiteers have wrapped America's highest office in a radioactive matrix of deceit, disinformation, and lethal heritage. The brainwash disinformation is to call 4.5 billion year half-lives poisons "safe" and "clean" and "green" – to tell soccer Moms what they most want to hear.

Donald Trump's nuclear agenda is the culmination of this continuum: gratuitous deregulation, scandalous subsidies, and willful forgetting of Fukushima-type disasters on the horizon. Cancer coming to you or yours is Trump's Nuclear Plumegate—a poisoned imitation of Obama's cover-ups and a symptom of the bipartisan betrayals of American lives.

Trump's arrogant ignorance of radiological science is a molecular death warrant writ large.

Plutonium-239, with a 24,100-year half-life, and Cesium-137's 30-year decay chain emit harmful alpha, beta, and gamma radiation—each penetrating cells, damaging DNA, and fueling carcinogenic mutations for millennia. Alpha particles, although short-ranged, can destroy lung tissue when inhaled; beta radiation can pierce skin and organs; gamma rays can penetrate deeply, breaking molecular bonds and potentially altering life's code. Trump's wanton deregulation and nuclear bailouts wink at this nuclear carnage, playing million-year poisons as "clean" energy. It's not just negligence—it's an intergenerational biochemical war crime, sentencing unborn generations by the thousands to a future of genetic ruin and environmental wasteland.

Chapter 1: Trump's Nuclear Faustian Bargain

1.1. The "Clean, Beautiful Nuclear" Mirage

During the 2016 campaign, Trump promised a nuclear renaissance in shiny language: "clean, beautiful, the future." Behind this shimmering veneer, however, were accelerated reactor approvals, undone safety protections, and aggressive deregulation of uranium mining—before Navajo Nation's cancer-stricken uranium miners could wither in radioactive purgatories.

1.2. Socializing Nuclear Failures

Under Trump, "free market" dogma twisted grotesquely as taxpayer subsidies propped up failing nuclear reactors. Rick Perry's 2019 bailout transferred billions into subsidizing outmoded reactors. By 2020, the Trump administration provided $1.5 billion in subsidization, propping up reactors that had been rejected by private capital. It was a cynical socialization of loss—a sinister subsidy for corporate nuclear excess.

1.3. Deregulating Disaster

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission, reconstituted under Trump with industry-friendly appointees, stripped away safeguards. The aging fleet—80% of which are over 40 years beyond their initial design life—predominantly functions under permissive regulation. Radioactive waste storage rules were relaxed, opening the door to unsafe dry cask storage near seismic fault lines. Emergency preparedness exercises decreased. A 2019 whistleblower exposed staged NRC inspections, proving a regulatory agency more concerned with protecting reactors than people.

Chapter 2: Fukushima Redux — Trump's Silent Catastrophes

2.1. The "Plumegate" Legacy

Obama's Fukushima denial, masked by reassuring fantasies of "safe" levels of radiation on the U.S. West Coast, set the template. Trump refined this scam. Scientists who uncovered Hanford's leaking nuclear waste tanks, Florida's radioactive groundwater, and California's earthquake-risk Diablo Canyon were silenced and suppressed.

2.2. The MOX Fuel Debacle

Over the objections of experts, Trump reinstated plutonium MOX fuel production—so hazardous that Obama had tried to discontinue it. The South Carolina nuclear industry's political handout militarized the environment, risking a Fukushima-scale meltdown with weapons-grade fuel rods of plutonium.

Edwin Lyman, a nuclear policy analyst, concludes:

"Trump turned South Carolina into a radioactively contaminated sacrifice zone. His MOX project was political theatre, not energy policy."

Chapter 3: The Unbroken Chain — How Every President Glows in the Dark

3.1. Eisenhower's Atoms for Peace: A Lethal Ruse

Eisenhower's "Atoms for Peace" in 1953 hid nuclear weapons development as peaceful progress. The results were deadly. Downwinders—residents around Nevada and Utah test grounds—got cancer-inducing radiation, victims of an open government lie.

3.2. Nixon's Nuclear Frenzy and Deceptions

Nixon created a reactor boom, with over 200 new plants sanctioned. Safety was secondary as the plants were hurried through construction, with fabricated reports sanctioning unsafe plants. The infamous Three Mile Island meltdown was a sinister legacy.

3.3. Clinton's Toxically Polluting Recycling Scam

The "Megatons to Megawatts" program recycled Soviet warheads into U.S. reactor fuel. Marketed as recycling, it poisoned American cities with toxic uranium, further ingraining nuclear dependence and environmental risk.

3.4. Bush and Obama: The Nuclear Renaissance and Fukushima Cover-Up

Bush's 2005 Energy Policy Act injected $13 billion in subsidies into a moribund industry. Obama's administration doubled down, rescuing Southern Company's Vogtle reactors, which are now $30 billion over budget and years behind schedule, while playing down the fallout from Fukushima.

3.5. Biden's Nuclear Entrenchment

Biden's 2022 Inflation Reduction Act invested $30 billion in nuclear power. The NRC extended reactor licenses to 80 years in 2024, despite blatant evidence of corrosion and degradation—a Faustian bargain that guarantees decades of atomic danger.

Chapter 4: The Coming Catastrophe — And the Path Forward

4.1. Fukushima 2.0 Looms

More than 40 reactors are located in areas prone to earthquakes, hurricanes, and flooding. Diablo Canyon, Turkey Point, and Indian Point are operating near capacity. Aging infrastructure and deferred maintenance have been creating a tinderbox waiting to ignite.

4.2. America's Toxic Legacy: Nuclear Waste

Over 90,000 metric tons of highly radioactive spent fuel are stored in precarious conditions. The Yucca Mountain complex was murdered by political fiat, dumping waste into leaky pools and uncovered dry casks. This poisonous plague threatens millions of future generations.

4.3. Voices from the Frontlines

Major Doug Rokke, former U.S. Army health physicist and Gulf War veteran, cautions:

"No amount of radiation is safe. The fallout is creeping genocide hiding behind bureaucratic doublespeak and political expediency."

Arnie Gundersen, whistleblower and nuclear engineer, advises:

"Fukushima was not an isolated event. Old reactors in the United States are ticking time bombs. We are playing with millions of lives."

Libbe Halevy, investigative journalist, and nuclear health expert, reports:

"Background radiation 'noise'—a lethal illusion masking an epidemic of disease and death—is a product of the propaganda machinery of the industry."

Dr. Helen Caldicott, physician and anti-nuclear activist, writes:

"Nuclear power is a medical catastrophe waiting to happen. No technology that poisons generations can ever be 'clean' or 'safe.'"

Chapter 5: Resistance Is Possible

• Call for nuclear subsidies to be discontinued immediately and invest the money in renewable energy.
• Impose open and strict safety inspections, with reactor shutdowns where necessary.
• Provide full health and environmental justice to downwinders and impacted communities.

The Glow Will Outlive Us

Every president since Eisenhower has carried the radioactive torch—glowing dark with plutonium and sins of secrecy. Trump's presidency embodies this shadow legacy, accelerating nuclear profiteering as it buries the earth's future under shrouds of toxic deceit.

Nuclear Sins: All U.S. Presidents Since FDR

• FDR: Pursued the atomic nightmare—bombing the first bombs, birthing the nuclear plague.
• Truman: Firebombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki, pouring radioactive hell on noncombatants.
• Eisenhower: "Atoms for Peace" — euphemism for sprinkling radioactive poison with a smile.
• Kennedy: Increased nuclear tests, filling the atmosphere with invisible zones of death.
• Johnson: Expanded fallout zones, poisoning millions in Cold War hysteria.
• Nixon: Approved a reactor boom with false safety reports—Three Mile Island's time bomb.
• Ford: Covered up nuclear mishaps, allowing radiation to sneak into communities unseen.
• Carter: Backed breeder reactors—plutonium arsenal and long-term disaster in fast-forward.
• Reagan: Greenlit massive atomic waste dumps and scoffed at emerging cancer clusters.
• Bush Sr.: Encouraged radioactive waste exports, showering the globe with America's poison.
• Clinton: Sold out with "Megatons to Megawatts"—trading Soviet nukes for U.S. death fuel.
• Bush Jr.: Signed billion-dollar bailouts to prolong aging reactors on borrowed time.
• Obama: Plumegate cover-up—lied about Fukushima fallout while pushing MOX fuel madness.
• Trump: Deregulated disaster zones, bailed out failing nukes, politicized plutonium.
• Biden: Sealed in 80-year reactor lifetimes—issuing death warrants to future generations.

There is no such thing as "clean" nuclear.

There is only corporate greed, political betrayal, and a radioactive future of ruins that will poison future generations.

Trump's cavalier disregard for radiological science is a molecular death warrant for generations.

Plutonium-239, with a half-life of 24,100 years, and Cesium-137, with a 30-year half-life, emit alpha, beta, and gamma radiation that can kill DNA, leading to lung, bone, and liver cancers, leukemia, and thyroid cancers. Alpha particles inhaled into the lungs create deadly tumors; beta rays damage skin and organs; gamma rays pass deeply and destroy genetic code, causing congenital disabilities in the form of cleft palate, heart deformities, and neural tube defects. Trump's deregulation and nuclear giveaways treat these billion-year poisons as "clean," dismissing the tidal wave of cancers, miscarriages, and birth disabilities that poison communities surrounding reactors and waste facilities. Trump's Plumegate is not ignorance—it's greed and toxic betrayal, condemning future generations to a legacy of pain, genetic anarchy, and ecological meltdown.

Spread this truth before they bury it.

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Trump's Nuclear Plumegate: Each President Glows in the Dark

Chris Spencer