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A message from Sumio Konno・今野寿美雄, a former nuclear engineer, on the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster via the Manhattan Project for a Nuclear-Free World・核の無い世界を目指すマンハッタンプロジェクト

Posted on 2020/03/09 by nfield

Manhattan Project for a Nuclear-Free World SUBSCRIBE[ Voices from Japan: 9 years after the Fukushima nuclear disaster ] 2020 March video project by Manhattan Project for a Nuclear-Free World English subtitle by John Baldwin, Karen Rogers, Mari Inoue, Rachel Clark, … Continue reading →

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Trinity: “The most significant hazard of the entire Manhattan Project” via Bulletin of Atomic Scientists

Posted on 2019/07/15 by nfield

By Kathleen M. Tucker, Robert Alvarez For the past several years, the controversy over radioactive fallout from the world’s first atomic bomb explosion in Alamogordo, New Mexico on July 16, 1945—code-named Trinity—has intensified. Evidence collected by the New Mexico health … Continue reading →

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MANHATTAN PROJECT MUSEUM URGED TO SAY HIROSHIMA AND NAGASAKI BOMBS WERE WAR CRIMES via Newsweek

Posted on 2018/05/16 by yukimiyamotodepaul

A museum dedicated to the Manhattan Project, the World War II research effort for the atomic bomb, is being urged to state in its exhibits that bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were war crimes. The first atomic bomb, named Little Boy, was … Continue reading →

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How the Manhattan Project’s Nuclear Suburb Stayed Secret via Atlas Obscura

Posted on 2018/05/04 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Oak Ridge, Tennessee, once home to 75,000, went up fast and under the radar. But it was built to last, too. […] When Wilcox arrived in this part of East Tennessee in 1943, soon after graduating from college with a … Continue reading →

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EPA announces plan to remove Manhattan Project nuclear waste from Missouri site via The Hill

Posted on 2018/02/01 by yukimiyamotodepaul

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced new plans Thursday to partially remove toxic waste from a decades-old nuclear site in Missouri, a decision that mirrors Administrator Scott Pruitt‘s vow to make Superfunds a 2018 priority. The proposed remedy, would both remove a … Continue reading →

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Joe Biden urges ‘Manhattan Project’ to fight cancer while on Australian tour via The Guardian

Posted on 2016/07/17 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Vice-president announces deal to share data from Australian patients with researchers around the world The US vice-president, Joe Biden, says there is a need for a new “Manhattan Project” against cancer as he announced a deal to share data from … Continue reading →

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Why We Should Preserve the History of the Manhattan Project via Huffpost

Posted on 2014/12/17 by norma field

The Manhattan Project, the secret research mission to develop an atomic weapon ahead of Germany and bring an end to World War II, was one of the 20th century’s most ambitious feats of science and engineering. And, it also proved … Continue reading →

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Women Respond to the Manhattan Project via Olivia Fermi

Posted on 2014/11/07 by norma field
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Did a WWII nuclear experiment make the U of C radioactive? Um, No. But did the Manhattan Project’s Enrico Fermi consider the risk to Chicago? via WBEZ

Posted on 2013/04/17 by kojimaaiko

[…] 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 … Continue reading →

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The Economic Impacts of Closing and Replacing the Indian Point Energy Center via Manhattan Institute

Posted on 2012/09/19 by yukimiyamotodepaul

  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 … Continue reading →

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