Tag Archives: Atomic Age

Nagasaki-Hanford Bridge Project: Joining the Victims of Production and Use of Nuclear Weapons via CORE

Posted on 2018/01/21 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Nagasaki-Hanford Bridge Project: Joining the Victims of Production and Use of Nuclear Weapons [March 5 through 11] Consequences of Radiation Exposure (CORE), a Washington State nonprofit, is planning a historic mission by a survivor of the Nagasaki atomic bomb to … Continue reading →

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Japan and US to extend civilian nuclear pact via Nikkei Asian Review

Posted on 2018/01/19 by yukimiyamotodepaul

American stance eases under Trump WASHINGTON — The U.S. nuclear cooperation agreement with Japan will automatically be extended this summer as neither party seeks to renegotiate the deal. First put into effect in 1988, the pact permits Japan to use … Continue reading →

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Why can’t we decide what to do about nuclear energy? via Popular Science

Posted on 2018/01/13 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Within sight of the sunbathers at Old Man’s surf spot, 55 miles north of San ­Diego, California, loom a pair of 176-foot-tall orbs. They’re a strange backdrop, home of the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station. Since its first reactor fired … Continue reading →

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The Fallout of CP-1: The Culture of Competence Surrounding Nuclear Technologies (Bo Jacobs at the University of Chicago) via Vimeo

Posted on 2018/01/11 by yukimiyamotodepaul

My lecture as part of the 75th anniversary of the first sustained nuclear chain-reaction experiment, CP-1, held as part of the Physics Colloquium of the University of Chicago on 26 October 2017. This experiment, conducted at Stagg Field at UC … Continue reading →

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SRS tours offer look at history of nuclear site via T and D

Posted on 2018/01/07 by yukimiyamotodepaul

AIKEN – Registration is open for the Savannah River Site 2018 public tour program. More than 1,000 seats are available during 22 tours to be held throughout the year. The program is managed by Savannah River Nuclear Solutions (SRNS) for … Continue reading →

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An Israeli anti-nuclear activist won the Nobel, and no one is talking about it via ＋972

Posted on 2017/12/26 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Sharon Dolev won the Nobel Peace Prize earlier this month for her work on nuclear disarmament. Despite the media blackout in Israel, and the reluctance to even touch the subject, she remains steadfast in her belief that a regional nuclear pact is … Continue reading →

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Reckoning With the Legacy of the Nuclear Reactor, 75 Years Later via The Atlantic

Posted on 2017/12/02 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Journalists have always struggled to reconcile the destruction and the development ushered in by this famous experiment. At the time, news of the breakthrough on December 2, 1942, was conveyed  only in code: “The Italian navigator has landed in the … Continue reading →

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〝Solid cancer mortality among workers in the International Nuclear Workers Study (INWORKS)″ via Hiroshima Peace Institute

Posted on 2017/11/26 by yukimiyamotodepaul

〝Solid cancer mortality among workers in the International Nuclear Workers Study (INWORKS)″   By David Richardson, Associate Professor of Epidemiology in the School of Public Health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill […] 3. Date and Time November … Continue reading →

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Commentary: The first atomic furnace via Chicago Tribune

Posted on 2017/11/26 by yukimiyamotodepaul

The atomic age began 75 years ago this Dec. 2, when a group of scientists gathered at the University of Chicago to determine whether they could achieve a self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction. Their experiment, conducted in an unheated squash court … Continue reading →

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Core Stories: Pioneers and inheritors via The University of Chicago Magazine

Posted on 2017/11/24 by kojimaaiko

Norma Field The activist As a child in Tokyo, born in the wake of World War II, Norma Field became aware of the nuclear threat early. The professor emeritus of East Asian languages and civilizations remembers feeling “the terrifying force of the … Continue reading →

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