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Anti-Nuclear Groups Protest Proposed Manhattan Project Park via The New York Times

Posted on 2011/07/20 by yukimiyamotodepaul

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 … Continue reading →

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Activists seek broader compensation for Americans exposed to radiation after decades in limbo via The Hill

Posted on 2023/10/03 by nfield

BY ZACK BUDRYK – 10/03/23 6:00 AM ET … Now, a coalition of activists from St. Louis and New Mexico is working with the support of a bipartisan supermajority of senators to broaden the pool of such Americans who are eligible for federal compensation.  A proposed amendment to the annual Defense … Continue reading →

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‘It’s a great day’: St. Louis activists encouraged by Biden’s support for radioactive waste victims via KSDK.com

Posted on 2023/08/12 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Dawn Chapman and Karen Nickel, who lead the activist group Just Moms STL, said they’re optimistic but not letting up. Author: Jim Salter (Associated Press) Published: 11:58 AM CDT August 11, 2023 Updated: 11:58 AM CDT August 11, 2023 ST. LOUIS — St. … Continue reading →

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Trinity Nuclear Test’s Fallout Reached 46 States, Canada and Mexico, Study Finds via New York Times

Posted on 2023/07/21 by nfield

By Lesley M. M. Blume In July 1945, as J. Robert Oppenheimer and the other researchers of the Manhattan Project prepared to test their brand-new atomic bomb in a New Mexico desert, they knew relatively little about how that mega-weapon would … Continue reading →

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“Radioactive” is compelling viewing via Beyond Nuclear International

Posted on 2023/06/19 by nfield

New film spotlights women’s experiences with the Three Mile Island nuclear accident By Karl Grossman Radioactive: The Women of Three Mile Island is the title of a newly-released documentary feature film directed, written and produced by award-winning filmmaker Heidi Hutner, a … Continue reading →

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Links between Nuclear Weapons and Nuclear Power

Posted on 2023/05/10 by nfield

This resolution was passed at the 23rd World Congress, in Mombasa, Kenya  by the IPPNW International Council – April 30th, 2023 IPPNW affirms that the links between nuclear power and nuclear weapons are such that in order to fully abolish … Continue reading →

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Cold War Nuclear Weapons Put St. Louis　Community At Risk—in 2023　via The Equation (Union of Concerned Scientists)

Posted on 2023/05/04 by nfield

Chanese A Forté Current-day residents near St. Louis, Missouri, are living with chronic health conditions and an increased cancer burden due to contamination from uranium mining and processes used in the production of nuclear weapons at the start of the … Continue reading →

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Trip to Richland: Confronting the Histories We Were Never Taught via Oregon Humanities

Posted on 2023/04/09 by nfield

By Laura Feldman To Downwinders everywhere Over the years I’ve visited the site many times, almost as if summoned. Slowly and surely I have developed a relationship with this place that was certainly not my place. In the summer of 2021, I … Continue reading →

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Review: St. Louis paid a heavy price to help buid an atomic bomb via St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Posted on 2023/01/19 by yukimiyamotodepaul

by Roland Klose, January 18, 2023 […] As Morice writes in “Nuked: Echoes of the Hiroshima Bomb in St. Louis,” the common thread that appeared to link these illnesses and deaths was Coldwater Creek, the 19-mile Missouri River tributary that … Continue reading →

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An unacceptable risk to children via Beyond Nuclear International

Posted on 2023/01/16 by nfield

By Linda Pentz Gunter In a peer reviewed article published in the British Medical Journal Pediatrics Open in October, my Beyond Nuclear colleague, Cindy Folkers and I, reviewed the studies currently available that look at the impact on children from radiation exposures … Continue reading →

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