Photo exhibit & presentation at Dartmouth on Chernobyl's 25th commemoration

Kevin Kamps of Beyond Nuclear spoke alongside Kenneth Yalowitz, John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding Director and former U.S. Ambassador to Belarus, to commemorate the 25th year since Chernobyl Unit #4 reactor exploded and burned in Ukraine on April 26, 1986. An exhibit by social documentary photographer Gabriela Bulisova, sponsored by Beyond Nuclear and the Sierra Club, and hosted by the Dickey Center, opened after the presentations. “Life on the Edge … The Half-Lives and Half-Truths of Chernobyl” will remain on display in the Russo Gallery in Haldeman Hall for three weeks. Gabi's photos are viewable online.

Nuclear Power Can Never Be Made Safe

"With the 25^th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear plant catastrophe having arrived, and with the disaster at the Fukushima nuclear complex still unfolding and radioactivity continuing to spew from those plants some people are asking: can nuclear power be made safe? 

The answer is no. Nuclear power can never be made safe." Karl Grossman in Common Dreams

Evacuation Zones for Nuclear Reactors- Interactive Map

"The 25th anniversary of Chernobyl and the continuing crisis at Fukushima -- both Level 7 nuclear disasters --  are clear reminders that standard evacuation zones cannot protect the public from a nuclear accident. Current NRC regulations stipulate a 10 mile evacuation zone around nuclear plants. This is clearly insufficient and 50 miles has been recommended."  

This interactive map from Physicians for Social Responsibility shows how many people live within 10 and 50 miles of US nuclear reactors.

"Nuclear waste to haunt US for generations" Beyond Nuclear on Press TV

Beyond Nuclear on Press TV makes the case against continued reliance on nuclear power.

Chernobyl: 25 years later

An April 2011  report by the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW) finds, “Particularly tragic is the fate of the thousands of children who were born dead or died in infancy, who were born with malformations and hereditary diseases, or who are forced to live with diseases they would not have developed under normal circumstances.”

Nuclear power remains inherently dangerous to all life forever. The failure of its multiple barrier systems to contain timelessly harmful radiation in routine and cumulative contaminating radioactive releases to the land, air and water, by tragic nuclear accidents like Chernobyl and now Fukushima, or ultimately after decades, centuries and milliniuems, the inevitable release of toxic nuclear waste to the environment and upon succeeding generations demonstrate the monumental irresponsibility to continue the operation of nuclear power and the construction of new reactors.