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A call for antiracist action and accountability in the US nuclear community via The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists

By Katlyn M. Turner, Lauren J. Borja, Denia Djokić, Madicken Munk, Aditi Verma, August 24, 2020 Authors’ note: This piece was reviewed and edited by Professor Gabrielle Hecht (Stanford University), Professor Susan Silbey (MIT), and several contributors who prefer to remain anonymous, to whom the authors are deeply grateful. … Continue reading

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Transportation Budget Has $3 Million For Nuclear Ship via Roll Call

Tucked in President Obama’s $94.7 billion Fiscal Year 2016 budget request for the Department of Transportation is $3 million for a ship berthed in Baltimore which has carried neither cargo nor passengers since 1970. The Maritime Administration is seeking the … Continue reading

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Eugene P. Wilkinson, commander of first nuclear sub, dies at 94 via The Washington Post

Eugene P. Wilkinson, a retired Navy vice admiral who helped guide the early development of the Navy’s nuclear-powered fleet and who commanded the Nautilus, the first nuclear-powered submarine, when it was launched in the 1950s, died July 11 at his … Continue reading

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【アトムス・フォー・ピース】トム・ヨーク&ナイジェル・ゴドリッチが、ついに完成した1stアルバム『アモック』を語る! via CDJournal

すべての始まりは、トム・ヨークが2006年に発表したソロ作品『ジ・イレイザー』だった。全編エレクトロニックの同作を生楽器で演奏すべく、プロデューサーのナイジェル・ゴドリッチとトムが集めた辣腕プレイヤー(レッチリのフリー、ドラマーのジョーイ・ワロンカー、ブラジル人パーカッショニストのマウロ・レフォスコ)は以来、独立した人格を持つバンド“アトムス・フォー・ピース(Atoms For Peace)”へと進化。綿密な解体と再構築の作業を経てアルバム『アモック(AMOK)』を完成させた彼らのユニークな成り立ちを、首謀者たちが解き明かす。 […] ――ところで、バンド名はアイゼンハワー米大統領が提唱した“平和のための原子力”に因んでいますね。  トム「今 の時代、多方面で深く共鳴するコンセプトだよね。実は僕の父は原子物理学者で、1950年代末に、何の防護処置もせずにプルトニウムを入れた試験管を持っ て歩き回ってた。それが普通だったんだよ。あの当時我々に原子力を売りつけたそういうナイーヴさと、その裏にある闇との対比に、バンド名を選んだ大きな理 由がある。と同時に、“平和のための原子力”という言葉の響きは一種の運動エネルギーを示唆していて、かつ、静けさをも表現しているし、さらには我々が直 面している、どうやって電力を作り出すかっていう問題にも思索を向かわせるんだよ」 全文は 【アトムス・フォー・ピース】トム・ヨーク&ナイジェル・ゴドリッチが、ついに完成した1stアルバム『アモック』を語る!

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“The Coming of a Second Sun”: The 1956 Atoms for Peace Exhibit in Hiroshima and Japan’s Embrace of Nuclear Power1 via Japan Focus

Ran Zwigenberg In November 2011 when asked about the Tokyo Electric Power Company’s (TEPCO’s) deteriorating finances, a Japanese official commented, “This is a war between humans and technology. While that war is being fought, we should not talk about bankruptcy.”2 … Continue reading

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Japan, the Atomic Bomb, and the “Peaceful Uses of Nuclear Power” via Japan Focus

“The Peaceful Use of Nuclear Energy” and Hiroshima Yuki Tanaka The ongoing grave situation at the Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant, which continues to contaminate vast areas of surrounding land and sea with high levels of radiation, forces us … Continue reading

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“The Coming of a Second Sun”: The 1956 Atoms for Peace Exhibit in Hiroshima and Japan’s Embrace of Nuclear Power via Japan Focus

Following the March 2011 Fukushima disaster, a host of commentators, in Japan and internationally, decried the corruption, smugness and shortsightedness that led Japan to choose nuclear power in the fifties. These critics more often than not draw a picture of … Continue reading

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Japan, the Atomic Bomb, and the “Peaceful Uses of Nuclear Power” via Japan Focus

Introduction by Yuki Tanaka “The Peaceful Use of Nuclear Energy” and Hiroshima Yuki Tanaka The ongoing grave situation at the Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant, which continues to contaminate vast areas of surrounding land and sea with high levels … Continue reading

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Key players got nuclear ball rolling via The Japan Times online

OSAKA — How did earthquake-prone Japan, where two atomic bombs were dropped at the end of World War II creating a strong antinuclear weapons culture, come to embrace nuclear power just a few decades later? Therein lies a tale whose … Continue reading

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Nuclear Power and Weapons: The Connections via Nuclear Energy Information Service

An increasing number of people in the United States today are standing up and speaking out against the dangers of nuclear weapons. At the same time a large number of these people are in favor of the use of nuclear … Continue reading

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