Health Impacts
Two Indians: New film seeks help
Shri Prakash, a filmmaker from India, who has examined the devastating health impacts from uranium mining in his homeland, has now turned his attention to his fellow “Indians”, the Native Americans of the US Southwest, where uranium mines have also long harmed communities. His film, Two Indians, is still in preparation. You can see a…
Read MoreACT NOW: The Pacific is not a nuclear dump
People worldwide are signing a petition to stop Japan from dumping radioactive wastewater into the Pacific. The devastating multiple meltdowns at the Fukushima nuclear power reactors are still contaminating Japan, and the waters and sea life off of its coast. Approval of dumping by the International Atomic Energy Agency was based on non-existent or mediocre…
Read MoreLow-dose radiation risk underestimated
New research tracking the deaths of workers in the nuclear industry indicates that risk for cancer death from protracted exposure to external, low-dose radiation has been underestimated. Some of the evidence even indicates a steeper slope for the dose-response association in the low dose range than over the full dose range. Up to now, the…
Read MoreWeaponizing uranium: Join the webinar
Inspired by International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War’s (IPPNW) Mombasa World Congress, please join the US affiliate, Physicians for Social Responsibility, on Wednesday, August 23rd to discuss the legacy of uranium and the ways it has been weaponized to cause disproportionate and irreparable harm to Black, brown and Indigenous communities around the world.…
Read MoreInherited damage from France’s nuclear tests in Polynesia?
For 30 years, France undertook nuclear testing in its Pacific territory, French Polynesia. There were a total of 193 nuclear tests, including 41 atmospheric, that ended in 1996. These tests exposed the local population. Recent reporting by Al Jazeera focuses on the health impacts. Investigations by one of the same researchers who just released a…
Read MoreACT NOW for Downwinders!
While other victims of atomic testing have been compensated, the Trinity Downwinders have not. Now that the U.S. Senate has passed a historic expansion and extension of the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA), meant to compensate Trinity Downwinders and others, we need to ask the U.S. House to do the same. As passed in the…
Read MoreSIGN UP: Autumn classes on radiation basics!
Cindy Folkers (Beyond Nuclear) and Mary Olson (Gender and Radiation Impact Project) are again offering their course on radiation basics with guest presenter, Ian Fairlie. RADIATION BASICS (5 classes) THURSDAYS from SEPTEMBER 7- OCTOBER 5 Noon ET / 11 am CT / 10 am MT / 9 am PT Topics Covered: What is radiation? Cancer…
Read MoreSenate expands Trinity Downwinder compensation
Almost 80 years after the first atomic bomb, Trinity, was detonated near an unsuspecting population , health impacts continue and remain largely unrecognized (NYT paywalled) at the national level. While other victims of atomic testing fallout have been compensated, the Trinity Downwinders have not. “Today’s Senate vote is a step in the right direction toward…
Read MoreMassachusetts says ‘no’ to tritium discharge into bay
From the Associated Press: Massachusetts environmental regulators have denied a request by the company dismantling a shuttered nuclear power plant to release more than 1 million gallons (3.8 million liters) of radioactive wastewater into Cape Cod Bay. The state Department of Environmental Protection’s draft decision issued Monday said it denied Holtec’s request for a permit…
Read MoreSetting the record straight on tritium
In an opinion piece published in the Washington Post, Cindy Folkers, Radiation and Health Hazard Specialist of Beyond Nuclear, points out that tritium is not as safe as industry proponents claim it is, highlighting a recent paper by Mousseau and Todd, which found that tritium can have significant impacts when taken into the body, making…
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