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The most toxic and voluminous nuclear waste in the U.S.—208 million liters —sits in decaying underground tanks at the Hanford Site (a nuclear reservation) in southeastern Washington State. It accumulated there from the middle of World War II, when the Manhattan Project invented the first nuclear weapon, to 1987, when the last reactor shut down. [...]
By norma field
– May 30, 2013
Dawn Chapman can put up with the noxious smell caused by smoldering trash in a landfill near her suburban St. Louis home. But if the burning creeps close to buried nuclear waste, she’s ready to get out. It’s a problem that worries many people in this densely populated area near Lambert Airport, where the trash [...]
By norma field
– May 29, 2013
The most toxic and voluminous nuclear waste in the U.S.—208 million liters —sits in decaying underground tanks at the Hanford Site (a nuclear reservation) in southeastern Washington State. It accumulated there from the middle of World War II, when the Manhattan Project invented the first nuclear weapon, to 1987, when the last reactor shut down. [...]
By norma field
– May 9, 2013
[...] Chicago Pile 1 was never meant to be under the University of Chicago’s former football field. Project managers originally wanted the full experiment to run in the Red Gate Woods, southwest of the city. But builders at Red Gate went on strike, so Compton and Fermi faced a decision: abandon the experiment, or move [...]
By kojimaaiko
– April 17, 2013
WASHINGTON — Cleanup of radioactive waste at nuclear sites across the country – including one in Washington state where waste tanks may be leaking 1,000 gallons per year – would be delayed under automatic spending cuts set to take effect Friday. Energy Secretary Steven Chu says the cuts would delay work at the department’s highest-risk [...]
By norma field
– March 7, 2013
WASHINGTON — Cleanup of radioactive waste at nuclear sites across the country — including one in Washington state where waste tanks may be leaking 1,000 gallons per year — would be delayed under automatic spending cuts set to take effect Friday. Energy Secretary Steven Chu says the cuts would delay work at the department’s highest-risk [...]
By yukimiyamotodepaul
– March 1, 2013
SEATTLE — Six underground tanks holding radioactive waste are leaking at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in eastern Washington, Gov. Jay Inslee said on Friday after a meeting with federal officials overseeing the cleanup of the nation’s most polluted nuclear site. One tank was already known to have a leak, but the new revelation caught state [...]
By Tomomi Yamaguchi
– February 22, 2013
An open letter to President Obama: The time on the Doomsday Clock is five minutes to midnight By Robert Socolow, Thomas Rosenbaum, Lawrence J. Korb, Lynn Eden, Rod Ewing, Alexander Glaser, James E. Hansen, Sivan Kartha, Edward “Rocky” Kolb , Lawrence M. Krauss, Leon Lederman, Ramamurti Rajaraman, M. V. Ramana, Robert Rosner, Jennifer Sims, Richard C. [...]
By yukimiyamotodepaul
– January 15, 2013
The vast Hanford nuclear site was supposedly safe for its neighbours. Now they are fighting the experts for their story to be told Kate Brown 03 December 2012 Tom Bailie grew up on a dryland farm in Mesa, Washington, just downwind from the massive Hanford plant founded in 1943 to produce plutonium for the Manhattan [...]
By norma field
– December 6, 2012
Barry Commoner, a founder of modern ecology and one of its most provocative thinkers and mobilizers in making environmentalism a people’s political cause, died on Sunday in Manhattan. He was 95 and lived in Brooklyn Heights. [...] Raised in Brooklyn during the Depression and trained as a biologist at Columbia and Harvard, he came armed [...]
By norma field
– October 2, 2012
In a story that is breaking right now, Dr. Lisa Martino-Taylor, a sociologist in St. Louis. MO (US), has introduced evidence that “secret military tests conducted during the Cold War targeted poor and minority communities for exposure to what is likely radiological material.” [...] Dr. Martino-Taylor told us that specifically, her research identifies a coalition [...]
By norma field
– September 24, 2012
Located some 40 miles north of New York City, in Westchester County, the Indian Point Energy Center (IPEC) consists of two operating nuclear reactors, with a combined generating capacity of over 2,000 MW, and one long-retired reactor. IPEC’s size and location are the key factors in both the power it provides and the decades-long [...]
By yukimiyamotodepaul
– September 19, 2012
It took eight years of finding paperwork and waiting on government reviews, but Helen Sobotka, 68, of Springdale got a lump-sum, tax-free payment from the federal government for $150,000. The government paid the money, which went to her late mother, because her father, Paul “Shorty” Pastierik, died of lung cancer that likely was caused by [...]
By Tomomi Yamaguchi
– July 2, 2012
The efforts of two Japanese citizens to raise awareness of the risk of a further major accident at Fukushima are to be commended. More than 13 months after the accident began – the threats from the Fukushima Daiichi site are multi-dimensional and on-going, but the under reporting of these risks as a result of nuclear [...]
By norma field
– April 24, 2012
PDF version +++For Immediate Release+++ April 10, 2012 Atomic Age II: Fukushima University of Chicago hosts all-day symposium investigating the multiple dimensions of the ongoing Fukushima nuclear disaster through discussion by experts from Japan and the U.S. Saturday, May 5, 2012: 8:45 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. Social Science 122, the University of Chicago, 1126 East [...]
By Masaki C.
– April 10, 2012
… Bills that once seemed far into the future may be coming due. The license for Vermont Yankee in Vernon, Vt., at 40 the nation’s oldest reactor, expires on Wednesday, for example. And while the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has granted its owner, Entergy, a new 20-year permit, the State of Vermont is trying to close [...]
By yukimiyamotodepaul
– March 21, 2012
… Most of the processes required the use of mercury, especially Colex (an abbreviation for “column exchange”), which proved to be the most successful. Some of the same big buildings that had been used for uranium enrichment during the Manhattan Project were converted to Colex production facilities. Millions of pounds of mercury were essential to [...]
By yukimiyamotodepaul
– March 13, 2012
… It was within that context that four visiting Japanese citizens involved in the Fukushima disaster spoke at a conference on emergency preparedness at Manhattanville College in Purchase on Monday. Kazuhiko Amano, a researcher at the Fukushima University Institute for Disaster Relief, said that a nuclear disaster has a profound and unique effect on the [...]
By yukimiyamotodepaul
– March 6, 2012
ひらがなをつける | ひらがなをはずす 日本語のニュース || 日本語の資料集 || 日本語のマルチメディア資料 || 日本語で書かれた資料へのリンク集 シンポジウム『核の時代：広島から現代まで』は、 ２０１１年５月２１日（土）に開催されました。 ２０１２年度のシンポジウムの情報はこちら シンポジウムの動画 開会 M.T SIlvia による『アトミック・マム』について 鎌仲ひとみの『ミツバチの羽音と地球の回転』について 座談会 シンポジウムの報告 Message from Norma Field “The Symposium and Beyond” 土井ゆみさんコラム 「鎌仲ひとみ監督も参加 シカゴ大学の核・原発問題シンポジウム」が 『女性情報』誌に掲載 宮本ゆき 『シンポジウム「核の時代：広島から現代まで」を終えて』 ドキュメンタリー映画とディスカッションを通して、核兵器と核エネルギーを考える 当シンポジウムの企画は１年以上前に立ち上がりましたが、その後『核の時代：広島から現代まで』というタイトルを付けた段階においても、「現代」という言葉が実際に起こる大災害を含んでしまうとは全く想定外のことでした。当シンポジウムは『「核の時代」から７０年が過ぎた現在、教育の現場や地域において私たちは核兵器と核エネルギーの関係について何を考え、何を行動に移すことが出来るか』という問いを大きなテーマとしています。「核の時代」とは、兵器としての核およびエネルギーとしての核の問題双方を含み、さらに冷戦時代から現在の厳しい状況にまで至る時代を示します。シンポジウム参加者全員にとって、チェルノブイリ事故から２５年がたった今年、福島で起きている事態は、まさにその「核の時代」を考える上での新たなる緊急事態として迫っているのです。 当シンポジウムにおける議論の焦点として、アメリカ出身の女性映画監督および日本出身の女性映画監督による２つのドキュメンタリー映画を上映いたします。監督２人に加え、上映後のディスカッションおよびシンポジウムを締めくくる座談会には多様な分野の専門家が参加する予定です。 M.T. シルヴィアによる『アトミックマム』は、ネバダ原子力実験所で働いていた科学者 (Pauline H. Silvia) を母親に持つ監督自身による、米国における核の実験の影響についてのドキュメンタリー映画です。自身の母の過去を探る中で、シルヴィアは広島に向かいます。そこで彼女は、もう１人の「アトミックマム」、被爆者の岡田恵美子さんに出会います。一見全く異なる２人の女性の物語はいつしか重なり合い、核を用いること、核に関して公にされない物事の存在と、それらによる人々の犠牲の輪郭が明らかになって行きます。（金賞「ベスト・ドキュメンタリー・フィーチャー」を受賞しました。詳しくは ROTWNEWS.com から） 鎌仲ひとみによる『ミツバチの羽音と地球の回転』（日本での上映情報）は、山口県上関町で進められている原子力発電所の建設計画と、その建設予定地の真向かいに位置する祝島の人々の数十年に及ぶ反対運動についてのドキュメンタリー映画です。建設計画が進む中、エネルギー政策のオルタナティブを探しに、監督はスウェーデンへと旅立ちます。 私たちが核兵器や核エネルギーとどう向き合うのか——それは、私たちの身体の健康に、民主主義に、ひいては地球そのものにとって、いますぐ問わなければならない問いです。私たちは、本シンポジウムをその問いに関する対話の契機とし、教育の現場や地域において利用可能な資料や情報を提供することを目標とします。 シンポジウムで “Downwinder” シャツを販売します “Downwinder” シャツを当シンポジウムにて1着10ドル（現金のみ対応）で販売致します。利益は全てシカゴ大学日本人協会の Relief & Rebuild [...]
By Masaki C.
– January 22, 2012
The Atomic Age from Hiroshima to the Present symposiumtook place on May 21, 2011 at the University of Chicago International House.We are sincerely grateful to all who came to attend the symposium. Click here to view information about Symposium 2012. Symposium Videos Introduction by Norma Field Discussion on M.T Silvia’s “Atomic Mom” Discussion on “Ashes [...]
By Masaki C.
– January 22, 2012
Ever since the start of nuclear technology, those behind it have made heavy use of deception, obfuscation and denial–with the complicity of most of the media. New York Times reporter William Laurence, working at the same time with the Manhattan Project, wrote a widely-published press release covering up the first nuclear test in New Mexico [...]
By norma field
– November 26, 2011
New York’s political titans are clashing over the future of a controversial nuclear plant north of New York City. Gov. Andrew Cuomo wants to close the aging Indian Point nuclear plant because of safety concerns. But the plant, which wants to extend its original licenses for another 20 years, has some powerful allies of its [...]
By snasser
– October 24, 2011
The operator of the Indian Point nuclear power complex has hired former Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani to vouch for the plant’s safety in a new advertising campaign scheduled to begin next week. The campaign will include advertisements on cable television and in newspapers, a spokesman for the company, the Entergy Corporation, said Wednesday. Entergy is [...]
By norma field
– October 7, 2011
2011年7月24日 00:30 【ワシントン宮崎昌治】歴史の保存か、称賛の象徴か－。原爆を開発し た米国の「マンハッタン計画」関連施設を、国立歴史公園に指定する動きが米政府内で具体化した。原爆開発は「保存すべき国家的財産」というのが理由だが、 米国内でも反対論が起きている。被爆国・日本を抜きにした指定手続きは、議会承認と大統領の署名を待つだけの段階まで来ている。 「秘密裏 による原爆開発は、米国の歴史を最も動かした出来事の一つだ。核時代への扉を開き、世界での米国の役割を変え、冷戦への舞台を整えた」。今月１３日、米議 会に指定を推薦した米内務省のサラザール長官は声明で、その意義をこう説明した。原爆開発への「誇り」がにじむ。 続きは原爆開発 米称賛か 関連施設を国立公園指定へ 日本抜き、米国にも反対論 ◇ 関連記事： ・米が原爆開発記念公園を計画 via スポーツ報知 ・米政府が原爆開発記念公園計画 市民団体は批判 via 47 News ・原爆開発の拠点、米で国立公園の計画 市民団体は反発 via asahi.com ◇ 当サイト既出英文記事： ・Anti-Nuclear Groups Protest Proposed Manhattan Project Park via The New York Times
By yukimiyamotodepaul
– July 26, 2011
By JOHN MCARDLE of Greenwire Published: July 19, 2011 A plan to create a multi-state national park dedicated to the top secret project to develop an atomic bomb during World War II has drawn the ire of anti-nuclear groups that believe the government shouldn’t be in the business of celebrating the creation of a weapon [...]
By yukimiyamotodepaul
– July 20, 2011
Now that many Americans have stopped paying attention to Japan’s nuclear catastrophe, shocking new details about its severity are finally coming to light. The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission recently revealed that the cores of three of the Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear station’s reactors started to melt within hours after the loss of offsite power, right after [...]
By Tomomi Yamaguchi
– June 6, 2011
Jonathan Cole, former provost of Columbia University and author of The Great American University: Its Rise to Preeminence, Its National Role, and Why It Must Be Protected (2010), recently extolled the University of Chicago, where I work, as preeminently representing the virtues of academic freedom and meritocracy. I’m not interested in challenging such praise today, [...]
By Masaki C.
– April 5, 2011
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