06 Nov Nuclear workers concerned about benefits
http://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/article/Former-nuke-workers-worry-about-health-10595687.php#photo-11759234...
30 Oct Depleted Uranium Weapons use in Syria, transfer in Port Townsend, WA
This is an interesting, well-researched and well-written article written by Doug Milholland, a Quaker and Golden Rule organizer in Port Townsend, WA. October 28, 2016 douglasmilholland@gmail.com Representative Derek Kilmer House of Representatives Washington DC Greetings Representative Derek Kilmer: I am writing regarding the recent U.S. use of depleted uranium munitions...
27 Oct UN Votes to Outlaw Nuclear Weapons in 2017 !!!
http://www.icanw.org/campaign-news/un-votes-to-outlaw-nuclear-weapons-in-2017/ This is HUGE NEWS! UN votes to outlaw nuclear weapons in 2017 October 27, 2016 The United Nations today adopted a landmark resolution to launch negotiations in 2017 on a treaty outlawing nuclear weapons. This historic decision heralds an end to two decades of paralysis in multilateral nuclear...
02 Apr Russia Today you tube interview: Alice Slater on Nuclear Security Summit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7C_mKtd5x50&authuser=1...
02 Apr DOE formally approves 6 tons of waste to WIPP
Maddy Hayden, Carlsbad Current-Argus 5:01 p.m. MDT April 1, 2016 CARLSBAD — The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant received some good news on Wednesday: the Department of Energy formally approved a plan to deliver six tons of non-pit plutonium to the plant once the facility is reopened. WIPP officials...
02 Apr STRANGE SPECTACLE: NUCLEAR SECURITY SUMMIT 2016
Lawyers Committee on Nuclear Policy April 2, 2016 At the invitation of President Obama, on April 1 more than 50 leaders of countries, including all states possessing nuclear arsenals except Russia and North Korea, gathered in Washington for the fourth Nuclear Security Summit. The focus was on...
02 Apr No Nuclear Security ‘So Long as Nuclear Weapons Exist,’ Say Activists
http://commondreams.org/news/2016/04/01/no-nuclear-security-so-long-nuclear-weapons-exist-say-activists Anti-nuclear organization stages rally outside of security summit to call on world leaders to eliminate all weapons by Nadia Prupis, staff writer Grassroots activists from the Global Zero movement rallied in McPherson Square in Washington, D.C. on Friday with a four-story inflatable nuclear weapon, urging world leaders to...
11 Mar Mary Olson of the Nuclear Information Resource Center and Arnie Gundersen of Fairewinds Associates tour Japan five years after the meltdowns.
As the fifth anniversary of the onset of the continuing Fukushima nuclear disaster approaches, Mary Olson, director of NIRS Southeast office in Asheville, NC and Arnie Gundersen of Fairewinds Associates are on a five-week speaking/listening tour of Japan. Safe Energy is posting Olson’s “tour diary”,...
11 Mar Radioactive Leak at Indian Point Nuclear Plant Shows ‘We Are Flirting With Catastrophe’
http://ecowatch.com/2016/02/17/indian-point-leak/ New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has called for Indian Point nuclear power plant to be shut down after officials discovered that a radioactive material known as tritium was leaking into the groundwater. On Feb. 6, Cuomo ordered an investigation into the leak after Entergy, the company that operates the...
11 Mar 7 Top NRC Experts Break Ranks to Warn of Critical Danger at Aging Nuke Plants
http://ecowatch.com/2016/03/09/nrc-experts-warn-dangers-nuclear/ Seven top Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) experts have taken the brave rare step of publicly filing an independent finding warning that nearly every U.S. atomic reactor has a generic safety flaw that could spark a disaster. The warning mocks the latest industry push to keep America’s...