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BEYOND NUCLEAR PUBLICATIONS

Radiation Exposure and Risk

Ionizing radiation damages living things and contaminates the environment, sometimes permanently. Studies have shown increases in cancer around nuclear facilities and uranium mines. Radiation mutates genes which can cause genetic damage across generations.

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Entries from August 1, 2021 - August 31, 2021

Tuesday
Aug242021

Low dose radiation panel: Please register to attend, comment

The National Academies is hosting another public meeting this Thursday, August 26, 2021, from 11 AM -5:45 PM ET to examine how to move forward on low dose radiation research. Please register and attend what you can. The public comment time is from 5:30-5:45 PM. The first meeting was hosted on July 21, 2021 and the video posted.

This study is sponsored by the Department of Energy, which has previously funded low dose research. This is despite DOE having its research into radiation’s impact on humans curtailed in the past due to its lack of transparency, inadequate record-keeping, and willful exposure of humans to radioactivity without their knowledge or consent — for research purposes. The Academies have provided a list of provisional committee members and Beyond Nuclear signed a group letter requesting John Graham be removed due to conflicts of interest and lack of radiation expertise. No action has been taken yet on this request as the committee remains provisional as of this announcement.

Research on low dose radiation impacts has led to some unsettling discoveries, like damage to cells that were never directly hit by radiation, and evidence that radiation may be destabilizing our generational health. Integration of these phenomena into regulations hasn’t happened yet.

DateAugust 24, 2021 | Print ArticlePrint Article | |
Tuesday
Aug172021

Beyond Nuclear speaks out against Fukushima Daiichi radioactive wastewater dumping in the Pacific Ocean

At the invitation of Beyond Nuclear board of directors member Kurumi Sugita, Beyond Nuclear's radioactive waste specialist, Kevin Kamps, has recorded a video message opposing the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant's planned radioactive wastewater dumping scheme into the Pacific Ocean.
The Yosomono net Youtube channel recording is in English, but with Japanese subtitles, as well as English subtitled for the hearing impaired.
Here are the links:
With Japanese subtitles --
With English subtitles for the hearing impaired --
French subtitles will also be added in the near future.
Please contact the Japanese Embassy in your country, and/or the Japanese consulate near you, and urge that the Japanese government and Tokyo Electric Power Company's current plan, to begin dumping radioactive wastewater from Fukushima Daiichi into the Pacific Ocean less than two years from now, be reversed.
DateAugust 17, 2021 | Print ArticlePrint Article | |