ARCHIVED Webinar: Health Risks of Nuclear Power • March 29, 2018 | PSR

Webinar: Health Risks of Nuclear Power

March 29, 2018

As PSR chapters promote the transition to clean renewable energy, some are finding that nuclear power is being proposed as renewable. Join us on this webinar to learn exactly why nuclear is not clean, not safe and not renewable

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The #NuclearIsDirty! Presentation Series – environmental problems #nuclear power creates from cradle to grave

As part of the #NuclearIsDirty campaign, NIRS has hosted a series of public events and presentations detailing the massive environmental problems nuclear power creates: from cradle to grave.

The #NuclearIsDirty! Presentation Series

• Church Rock, 1979: The story of the worst nuclear accident in U.S. history • Canaries in the Uranium Mine The Abandoned Uranium Mine Crisis and the Campaign to Clean them Up • Fukushima+5 - Report on Life on the Ground in Japan• Chernobyl +30: A Look from the Inside • Abusing our Waters: Nuclear Power Threats to Water and Ecosystems

#NuclearIsDirty: Chernobyl 30 -- A Look from the Inside, with Lucas Hixson - YouTube

#NuclearIsDirty: Chernobyl 30 -- A Look from the Inside, with Lucas Hixson - YouTube

Published on May 2, 2016 by nirsnet

In this installment in our #NuclearIsDirty * series, we provide an inside view from nuclear field technician Lucas Hixson on the impacts of the 1986 Chernobyl disaster and the ongoing efforts to manage the site.

Lucas recently traveled to Ukraine and spent ten days with people who work at the Chernobyl reactor site today, 30 years after the consequential release of radioactivity from this site began. He takes us from the moment the Unit 4 reactor failed on April 26, 1986, the aftermath, and the ongoing mitigation work, up to his own recent experiences living with today’s workers at the site of one of the largest man-made radioactive releases on the planet. Chernobyl today.

Lucas shared his insights about the radiological impacts and consequences that could reframe our understanding of major reactor disasters.

* link is changed to hashtag on twitter instead of youtube

#‎NuclearIsDirty‬: MAY 2 NIRS WEBINAR: “Chernobyl +30: A Look from the Inside, with Lucas Hixson”

Join us for our next #NuclearIsDirty series webinar on Monday, May 2 at 2pm Eastern. We will get an inside view on the impacts and ongoing mitigation efforts at Chernobyl.

Lucas recently traveled to Ukraine and spent time with people who work at the Chernobyl reactor site today, 30 years since the consequential release of radioactivity from this site began. He will take us from the moment reactor Unit 4 failed on April 26, the aftermath, and the ongoing mitigation work, up to his own recent experiences living with today’s workers at the site of one of the largest man-made radioactive releases on the planet. Chernobyl today.

Luke will share his insights about the radiological impacts and consequences that could reframe our understanding of major reactor accidents.

UPDATE – video of the Webinar: #NuclearIsDirty: Chernobyl 30 -- A Look from the Inside, with Lucas Hixson - YouTube

3.25 #NuclearIsDirty Webinar: Canaries in the Uranium Mine: The Abandoned Uranium Mine Crisis and the Campaign to Clean Them Up | Registration

As part of our #NuclearIsDirty roll-out series, NIRS is hosting a webinar on a vast but little-known environmental justice problem: abandoned uranium mines, or AUMs. There are 15,000 abandoned mines throughout the Midwest and Western U.S., disproportionately on or near First Nations communities and their drinking water supplies.

On Friday's webinar, we will hear from indigenous activists about the toxic wastes of uranium mining, the environmental justice and public health impacts, and their efforts to remediate these sites and protect their communities: 

Klee Benally, Diné - Clean Up the Mines organizer 

Charmaine White Face, Lakota - Defenders of the Black Hills 
Petuuche Gilbert, Acoma - Laguna and Acoma Coalition for a Safe Environment 

Last week, we featured a briefing on the Church Rock mill tailings disaster, the largest single radiological release in U.S. history. Listen to or share the recording here: 
http://www.nirs.org/reactorwatch/week1-briefing-churchrock-20160317.mp3 

But Church Rock was not an "accident" because it is just the tip of the dirty, radioactive iceberg. Uranium extraction is an inherently dangerous and destructive industry, creating vast amounts of radioactive and toxic waste before a single fuel rod ever goes into a reactor.  

First Nations communities in the rural Midwest and Western US have habitually been targeted for uranium and other dirty mining and resource extraction. In some communities, ambient radioactivity is as high or higher than in Chernobyl and Fukushima exclusion zones. Communities are fighting back. Navajo have won and defended a ban on uranium mining on their territory for over 10 years. And now Diné, Lakota, Acoma, and other First Nations activists are leading the Clean Up the Mines campaign. The goal: to remediate the 15,000 abandoned uranium mines and protect communities and their water.

Registration


#NuclearIsDirty ... From the Start! In the first "episode" of the rollout series we are focusing on the roots of nuclear power, the problems that are the very foundation of the nuclear industry: 
- Uranium mining and the mountains of waste generated just to produce nuclear fuel.
- Environmental justice, and the targeting of vulnerable communities throughout the fuel chain.
- The dangers of radiation exposure, and its disparate impacts on women and girls...

more: http://org2.salsalabs.com/o/5502/t/0/blastContent.jsp

6.24 WEBINAR: Pull the #Plutonium Pork – End #MOX!

Monday, June 24, 3pm (ET):

Pull the Plutonium Pork – End MOX

(Co-hosted with Georgia WAND)

Developing a disposition method for plutonium from dismantled U.S. nuclear weapons is important, but the Department of Energy’s current plan to make experimental fuel with this weapons’ plutonium is costly, dangerous and on the verge of collapse. It’s also siphoning dollars away from other nuclear nonproliferation and nuclear weapons cleanup priorities. Please join us to learn about the Mixed Oxide Plutonium Fuel Program (MOX) and what can be done to keep this failing program from gobbling more dollars while increasing nuclear dangers.  We’ll also consider what alternatives need to be developed to deal with plutonium from nuclear weapons.   Tom Clements, Southeastern Nuclear Campaign Coordinator for Friends of the Earth andKatherine Fuchs, Program Director of the Alliance for Nuclear Accountability will tell us how to pull the plutonium pork and develop needed solutions.  Cohost, Georgia WAND will also discuss the regional impacts of MOX.

“Pull the Plutonium Pork – End MOX” is part of WAND’s Nuclear Budget Webinar Series looking at specific nuclear weapons programs in particular need of Congressional budget cutting scrutiny.  Last month we started with: "Is it time to boot the B61 nuclear bomb?"

> Upcoming Webinar: Pull the Plutonium Pork – End MOX! | WAND Inc.

5.30 WEBINAR: Small modular reactors, same nuclear problems

Small modular reactors, same nuclear problems
05/30/2013
12:00 pm EDT

Please join us to learn more about small modular nuclear reactors, including the costs and risks they pose to the Southeast, particularly at TVA’s Clinch River site in Tennessee and the Savannah River Site in South Carolina, and to U.S. taxpayers. Hear expert analysis from and participate in a discussion with Dr. Arjun Makhijani, President of the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research; Autumn Hanna, Senior Program Director at Taxpayers for Common Sense; Tom Clements, Southeast Nuclear Campaign Coordinator with Friends of the Earth; and Sara Barczak, High Risk Energy Choices Program Director with Southern Alliance for Clean Energy.

SACE - Southern Alliance for Clean Energy - SACE Webinars