Maddy Hayden, Carlsbad Current-Argus 5:01 p.m. MDT April 1, 2016 CARLSBAD — The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant received some good news on Wednesday: the Department of Energy formally approved a plan to deliver six tons of non-pit plutonium to the plant once the facility is reopened. WIPP officials...
Lawyers Committee on Nuclear Policy April 2, 2016 At the invitation of President Obama, on April 1 more than 50 leaders of countries, including all states possessing nuclear arsenals except Russia and North Korea, gathered in Washington for the fourth Nuclear Security Summit. The focus was on...
http://commondreams.org/news/2016/04/01/no-nuclear-security-so-long-nuclear-weapons-exist-say-activists Anti-nuclear organization stages rally outside of security summit to call on world leaders to eliminate all weapons by Nadia Prupis, staff writer Grassroots activists from the Global Zero movement rallied in McPherson Square in Washington, D.C. on Friday with a four-story inflatable nuclear weapon, urging world leaders to...
For the third time in two weeks the Golden Rule got stuck in the muck in the Eureka Public Marina trying to enter or exit her berth, all three times with guests aboard. The first two times we managed to get unstuck on our own,...
Please sign this open letter to Prime Minister Abe on Japan's reprocessing policy. Release: March 25 (in time for the Nuclear Security Summit: March 31-April 1) Signature deadline: March 22 Reply address for signing:Caitlin Stronell/Citizens' Nuclear Information Center contact@cnic.jp Will you please sign/help circulate the letter and its cover letter,...
http://nuclearhotseat.com/2016/03/16/nuclear-hotseat-247-psrippnw-report-10000-excess-cancer-cases-post-fukushima-thomasson-rosen-mousseau-alvarez/ ...
I have seen the DragonThrough clenched lids and arms pressed tight.I have felt its hot breath on my backAnd listened to the rumble of its voice.I have looked upon its breath,Glowing Amethyst, red and purple,Climbing towards the stratosphereTo deposit its venom downwind.I have waited in fear...
Today is the 5th anniversary of the triple disaster at Fukushima - the earthquake, tsunami and triple nuclear melt-through caused over 15,000 deaths that day and displaced over 160,000 people. In the aftermath, many thousands more have died or will die of cancer or suicide....
Today is the 5th anniversary of the triple disaster at Fukushima - the earthquake, tsunami and triple nuclear melt-through caused over 15,000 deaths that day and displaced over 160,000 people. In the aftermath, many thousands more have died or will die of cancer or suicide. ...
As the fifth anniversary of the onset of the continuing Fukushima nuclear disaster approaches, Mary Olson, director of NIRS Southeast office in Asheville, NC and Arnie Gundersen of Fairewinds Associates are on a five-week speaking/listening tour of Japan. Safe Energy is posting Olson’s “tour diary”,...