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How a Nun, a Vet, and a Housepainter Stood Up to the Threat of Nuclear Weapons via The Nation

Posted on 2016/09/01 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Dan Zak’s Almighty reminds readers that the United States’ poisonous and very expensive history of nuclear-weapons production is far from over. Dan Zak’s Almighty: Courage, Resistance and Existential Peril in the Nuclear Age is a must read for everyone in this … Continue reading →

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The Toxic Legacy of Racism and Nuclear Waste Is Very Much Still With Us in Los Alamos via Alternet

Posted on 2016/08/24 by norma field

By Taryn Fivek NEW MEXICO—The air is crisp, cool and fresh. The sun is warm, but not too much. Residents picnic at a pond complete with cruising swans and ducks. The vistas of the Jemez Mountains and the mesas of … Continue reading →

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Radiation contamination concerns after Cold Water Creek flooding in Hazelwood via Fox2

Posted on 2016/08/16 by yukimiyamotodepaul

ST. LOUIS, MO (KTVI) – Residents at a Hazelwood apartment complex woke up this morning to find their cars submerged after a nearby creek over flowed. There’s more to be worried about then just water damage from Cold Water Creek. … Continue reading →

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Every baby born in 2016 contains atom bomb radiation — here’s why via Tech Insider

Posted on 2016/08/03 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Seventy-one years ago Saturday, a United States B-29 bomber named the “Enola Gay” dropped the atomic bomb “Little Boy” over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The bomb fell just over 29,000 feet from the plane and detonated 1,900 feet above … Continue reading →

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New Yorkers express fears of Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant at documentary screening via Crain’s New York Business

Posted on 2016/07/12 by norma field

The start of a two-week-long Lincoln Center film screening of Indian Point, a documentary about the controversial nuclear power plant in Buchanan, N.Y., gave New Yorkers an opportunity to share their concerns about their safety five years after the Fukushima … Continue reading →

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When Kodak Accidentally Discovered A-Bomb Testing via Popular Mechanics

Posted on 2016/07/05 by norma field

By Matt Blitz The ground shook, a brilliant white flash enveloped the sky, and the world changed forever. Code name “Trinity,” the bomb test at dawn on July 16, 1945 in Alamogordo, New Mexico was the first large-scale atomic weapons … Continue reading →

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Nuclear ‘Ticking Time Bomb’ Is a Real Threat to New York, but the Feds Don’t Seem to Care via Alternet

Posted on 2016/06/17 by norma field

By Cliff Weathers / AlterNet June 13, 2016 Photo Credit: credit: Leah Rae. A little more than a year ago, a transformer fire and oil spill reminded the world that Indian Point, an aging nuclear power plant, sits only about … Continue reading →

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Scientists still track health fallout of nuclear bombing of Japan　via PBS

Posted on 2016/05/26 by norma field

[…] MILES O’BRIEN: When I met him in 2012, radiation biophysicist Evan Douple was the associate chief of research at the Radiation Effects Research Foundation. The joint Japanese and U.S. study has been following the survivors of the atomic bombings … Continue reading →

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The Demon Core and the Strange Death of Louis Slotin via The New Yorker

Posted on 2016/05/23 by yukimiyamotodepaul

The demonstration began on the afternoon of May 21, 1946, at a secret laboratory tucked into a canyon some three miles from Los Alamos, New Mexico, the birthplace of the atom bomb. Louis Slotin, a Canadian physicist, was showing his … Continue reading →

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Is This the 4th Recent Nuclear Disaster to Strike the U.S.? via Natural Blaze

Posted on 2016/05/07 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Is there any nuclear site in the United States that is not currently collapsing, leaking or otherwise posing a major health or environmental risk? Certainly there are, but that number is becoming smaller and smaller. In addition to three other … Continue reading →

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