WEBINAR: What nuclear boosters won’t tell you about radiation

In Their Rush to Expand, Nuclear Interests Ignore and Suppress Evidence of Radiation’s Harms, Including Worse Impacts on Women and Children

Gender + Radiation Impact Project will host a webinar on February 20 at 12 PM ET, featuring leading experts on the impacts of radiation from nuclear technologies. Cindy Folkers, author and radiation and health hazard specialist at Beyond Nuclear, and Amanda M. Nichols, Ph.D. , author and Managing Editor of the peer-reviewed Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture , will speak and answer questions about the current state of science concerning harmful impacts of the nuclear energy and weapons industries. Both have recently co-authored the oped “They won’t tell you these truths about nuclear energy” in The Hill. Mary Olson, author and co-founder of the Gender + Radiation Impact Project, will moderate. Press release.

A growing body of evidence reveals radiation contamination in our environment disproportionately impacts women and young children. Those arguing for expanding nuclear power and weapons production pointedly ignore and contradict evidence of their harms — part of a pattern of suppression that goes back to the dawn of the nuclear age a century ago. Scientists who revealed radiation’s harmful impacts were pilloried and had their funding and data seized.

The pattern of suppression still holds today, but with the rush toward nuclear-powered AI centers and a new nuclear arms race looming, it has kicked into high gear. False claims and preposterous talk points from the nuclear industry are increasingly and uncritically repeated without challenge.

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