July 16 New Mexico frontline community events (1979 Church Rock uranium tailings spill; 1945 “Trinity” atomic bomb “test” blast)

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Dear Friends and Colleagues, Please see the email from Lilly Adams at Union of Concerned Scientists, below. Here are links to the documents that Lilly attached to her original email: 1. Red Water Pond Road Community Association/MASE flier; 2. TBDC press release. Please spread the word about these important events. Thank you. —Kevin Kamps, Beyond…

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Commemorating the Trinity Test on July 16

July 5, 2022 email from Sofia Rose Wolman: Greetings, We’re writing to encourage your ongoing action, through marking Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and Trinity Day this summer. This particular email is about July 16: the date of the Trinity Test in 1945, when the first nuclear weapon was exploded in the USA state of New Mexico. Wherever…

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Radiation report released! June 17 comment deadline

The National Academy of Sciences committee today released its report recommending next steps for low-dose radiation research. Starting tomorrow, the public has 15 days to submit comments that will be shared with the study’s sponsor, the U.S. Department of Energy. The National Academies hosted virtual public meetings including an October public meeting featuring powerful and…

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Nominate a winner!

Nuclear-Free Future Award open for candidates The historic Nuclear-Free Future Award will be held again later this year and you can nominate a candidate to win. The award is offered in three categories — Resistance, Education and Solution. Founded in 1998, the Nuclear-Free Future Award honors people from around the world who have made an…

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Peace petition tops one million; goes to UN

On April 12, the IPPNW petition to reject war and nuclear weapons was delivered at United Nations Headquarters in New York.  Launched by 16 Nobel Peace Prize Laureates and so far joined by 1,061,000 citizens worldwide, the open letter calls for “an immediate ceasefire and the withdrawal of all Russian military forces from Ukraine, and…

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$6 billion for old nukes?

On February 11, 2022, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) issued a press release full of false rhetoric, claiming that an injection of $6 billion under the Department’s Civil Nuclear Credit Program would end the shutdown of the country’s aging reactors because this has “led to an increase in carbon emissions in those regions, poorer…

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LAST CHANCE! Attend and comment on the future of radiation research

The National Academies is hosting what will probably be the last of 7 virtual public meetings examining how to move forward on low-dose radiation research. The two-day meeting is on Monday and Tuesday, January 24-25, 2022, starting at 2 PM Monday. Public comment times are 6:30-6:45 PM Monday and 11-11:30 AM Tuesday. Agenda subject to…

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