Health Impacts
Fukushima fish too radioactive for human consumption
According to a report issued on Monday by Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), operator of the catastrophically ruined Fukushima nuclear reactors, “fish caught in the harbor of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Japan far exceed safety levels for human consumption.” The content of cesium 137, a radioactive isotope that is a common byproduct…
Read MoreWATCH: Tritium and the U.S. Nuclear Power Sector
“Tritium and the U.S. Nuclear Power Sector” is the first in a two-part webinar series on the threats from dumping huge amounts of tritium (radioactive hydrogen) from the nuclear power and nuclear weapons sectors into our environment both as radioactive vapor and effluent. This webinar features: Dr. Ian Fairlie providing an overview of tritium and…
Read MoreJoin us: Tritium webinar May 16
Join us Tuesday, May 16, 10am-11:30am ET for Beyond Nuclear’s first online teach-in on continuing threats to dump huge amounts of tritium (pictured) into our environment. Tritium in the US Nuclear Power Sector features: Dr. Ian Fairlie providing an overview of tritium and the harm it causes; Mary Lampert of Pilgrim Watch describing opposition to…
Read MoreChornobyl dogs studied
First step in probing radiation “red flags” In order to understand the impact of radioactive contamination on the genome, and what it means for continuing exposures into the future, researchers have studied the underlying genetic qualities of dogs in and around the ruined Chornobyl Nuclear Facility in Ukraine. Dogs have lived in the area since…
Read MoreRadiate the Truth: Informational tools on uranium, health
A new video and infographics series, Radiate the Truth, that details the history and impacts of uranium on the body and the environment, premiered December 7. Radiate the Truth delivers short, accessible educational videos and infographics to teach about the history and effects of uranium on the body and the environment. The series will be…
Read MoreRADIOACTIVE: The Women of Three Mile Island
RADIOACTIVE: The Women of Three Mile Island is a feature documentary about the 1979 Three Mile Island meltdown–the worst commercial nuclear accident in U.S. history. RADIOACTIVE covers the never-before-told stories of four intrepid homemakers-turned-activists, two women lawyers who took the local community’s case all the way to the Supreme Court, and a young female journalist…
Read MoreOnline radiation course: U.S. radiation exposure standards!
SIGN UP FOR OUR DECEMBER COURSE! Cindy Folkers (Beyond Nuclear) and Mary Olson (Gender and Radiation Impact Project) have set out to teach about radiation. One more class is slated for 2022: UNDERSTANDING THE HOW AND WHY OF U.S. RADIATION EXPOSURE STANDARDS December 6, 7 and 8 noon, ET In this third class hosted by…
Read MoreSchool contaminated by atomic bomb waste
Jana Elementary in the suburbs of St. Louis, is a majority minority school. It is also contaminated by radionuclides left over from a nearby WWII atomic weapons facility operated by Mallinckrodt Chemical Works. The school sits in the floodplain of Coldwater Creek, which itself was contaminated. Samples collected just outside and inside the school found…
Read MoreChildren exposed. Our in-depth look
A peer-reviewed article by Cindy Folkers and Linda Pentz Gunter of Beyond Nuclear, has been published in the British Medical Journal, Pediatrics Open. The article looks at how past and present regulations on radioactivity released from the nuclear power sector have never taken into account those potentially most sensitive—women, pregnant women and especially children. Children…
Read MoreOnline radiation courses: Registration now open
Mary Olson of Gender and Radiation Impact Project and Cindy Folkers of Beyond Nuclear are teaming up to teach Radiation Information for Everyone (RIFE) — Online Short Courses on Radiation, Biology and Society. The two have decades of experience via work, study, and engagement with impacted communities and nuclear policy processes. They will invite colleagues to…
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