We mourn the passing on February 12, 2015 of Dr. Ernest J. Sternglass, the brilliant physicist, humanist and pioneer in the health effects of exposure to ionizing radiation and the hidden dangers of nuclear power and nuclear weapons. He was 91. Dr. Sternglass was responsible for important scientific breakthroughs, including innovations leading to the first[…]
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Happy 91st Birthday Today to Dr. Ernest Sternglass! All Best Birthday Wishes to a Brilliant Pioneering Scientist in the Health Effects of Ionizing Radiation It was Dr. Sternglass who alerted us and the world when Dominion reported finding a concentration of 55 picoCuries per liter of strontium-90 in the milk of Katie the Goat when[…]
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September 21, 2014 New York City People who love our planet turned out in the hundreds of thousands at marches around the world on September 21, 2014 to sound the alarm for action to address climate change. We joined hundreds of others in the No-Nukes contingent of the New York City march – estimated at[…]
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Don’t miss the Nuclear-Free, Carbon-Free Contingent to the People’s Climate March on September 21 in New York City. Email info@mothballmillstone.org to reserve a seat on a bus traveling from Connecticut. • March Information • Why We March • Briefing Paper • Nuclear Power Fact Sheet • EPA Talking Points Source:www.nirs.com
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A Nancy Burton Interview: Nancy Burton, founder of the Connecticut Coalition Against Millstone, speaks on the horrifying history of Connecticut’s aging Millstone nuclear power station, on the ongoing dangers posed by owner/operator Dominion Resources’ bottom line approach to safety, and the unreported radiation release that happened during the double-reactor shutdown on May 25, 2014.
Read MoreFor Immediate Release Contacts: Dan Hirsch Committee to Bridge the Gap 831 336 8003 Diane D’Arrigo Nuclear Information and Resource Service 301 270 6477 x 15 April 15, 2013 The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is publishing in the Federal Register today controversial new Protective Action Guides (PAGs) for responding to radioactive releases. EPA says[…]
Read MoreFukushima is already harming our children Harvey Wasserman March 10, 2013 Thyroid abnormalities have now been confirmed among tens of thousands of children downwind from Fukushima. They are the first clear sign of an unfolding radioactive tragedy that demands this industry be buried forever. Two years after Fukushima exploded, three still-smoldering reactors remind us that[…]
Read More“Scientist, and Planet Earth’s Lifeguard” NY Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/02/us/barry-commoner-dies-at-95.html?hpw “He found his political voice when he encountered the indifference of government authorities to the high levels of strontium 90 in the atmosphere from atomic tests. Quite simply, he said in an interview with The Chicago Tribune in 1993, ‘The Atomic Energy Commission turned me into an[…]
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Katie the Goat, the celebrated nuclear radiation monitor from Connecticut, took her Farewell Tour to the White House on March 11, the first anniversary of the Fukushima nuclear meltdowns. Katie’s granddaughter, Dana Blue-Eyes, appealed to the First Family to adopt her as its official White House monitor for strontium-90.
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