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Thursday evening: NEIS Night With the Experts featuring Cindy Folkers
Nuclear Energy Information Service’s (NEIS) Night With The Experts is hosting Cindy Folkers — Radiation & Health Specialist with Beyond Nuclear — next Thursday, August 25 at 7pm Central (UTC -5) via Zoom. Cindy will highlight the damage radiation does to cells, including direct and indirect damage to DNA, and the diseases that can result…
Read MoreUkraine war: Allies seek more security at Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant
As reported by BBC News.
Read MorePutin supports nuclear plant inspection
As reported by the Washington Post: Russia’s President Vladimir Putin said he supports allowing U.N. experts to inspect the Zaporizhzhia plant “as soon as possible” and agreed to provide the “necessary assistance,” during a call with French President Emmanuel Macron. However, Moscow has rejected broader requests to withdraw its military from the site, and has…
Read MoreCecile Pineda, wide-ranging Latina author, dies at 89
Obituary published in the Washington Post on August 15, 2022. Cecile Pineda passed on on August 11, 2022. As the obituary reports: Ms. Pineda wrote 10 books in all, many of them reflecting her engagement with the anti-nuclear movement, environmentalism and activism on behalf of immigrants and other marginalized groups. Her nonfiction work “Devil’s Tango,”…
Read MoreRev. Carl Kabat, Peace Activist and ‘Fool for Christ,’ Dies at 88
An associate of the Berrigan brothers, he spent nearly two decades in prison for his relentless protesting, often in a clown suit, against nuclear arms. Obituary published in the New York Times on August 17, 2022. Rev. Kabat passed on on August 4, 2022.
Read MoreThe risks to Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia power plant, explained
Europe’s biggest nuclear power plant is also its most vulnerable. As reported by VOX. (The record needs to be set straight on an error reported in the article. The article reports that the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant was designed to withstand shelling or other military attack. This is not true. See, for example, this New…
Read MoreInside Ukraine’s captured nuclear plant, explosions and constant fear
Workers from the Zaporizhzhia facility describe disappearances at the hands of Russian soldiers and fear of nuclear catastrophe As reported by the Washington Post.
Read MoreAnxiety surrounds Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant amid unrelieved fears of an attack
As reported by the Washington Post.
Read MoreUkraine and Russia Accuse Each Other of Plotting Attack on Nuclear Plant
The Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, the largest in Europe, has already been hit by shelling, and the United Nations chief, warning of disaster, called for a demilitarized zone around it. As reported by the New York Times.
Read MoreThe Diablo Canyon nuclear plant: assessing the seismic risks of extended operation
By Edwin Lyman, Director of Nuclear Power Safety at the Union of Concerned Scientists, published in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.
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