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Don’t Waste America! Telebriefing
Don’t Waste America is our national campaign focused on preventing decades of massive and dangerous high-level radioactive waste transport across the United States that would occur if efforts to revive the scientifically-indefensible Yucca Mountain, Nevada waste dump are accomplished, or if a Centralized or Consolidated “Interim” Storage (CIS) site for high-level radioactive waste is created.
Presenters each discussed one of the campaign’s four main components:
- Ian Zabarte (Principal Man, Western Bands Shoshone Nation Newe Sogobia) presented End Yucca!
- Diane D’Arrigo (Director, Radioactive Waste Project of NIRS) presented Stop CIS!
- Deb Katz (Citizen Awareness Network) presented Implement HOSS!
- Mary Olson (Director, NIRS Southeast) moderated and reflected on how waste transport intersects with the above.
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UN Press Briefing-Experts Explains What a Treaty Banning Nuclear Weapons Could Achieve
On June 22, 2017 a UN media briefing took place for the United Nations Correspondents Association in New York. Nuclear experts and presenters at a UN conference to negotiate a new nuclear ban treaty discussed the current, acute state of nuclear weapons threats, the decline of the post-Cold War nuclear arms regime, and a new initiative led by non-nuclear weapons states to ban nuclear weapons. The briefing was organized by the Nuclear Information and Resource Service and co-sponsored and moderated by Physicians for Social Responsibility.
CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD A PDF VERSION OF THE PRESS RELEASE.
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United Nations Nuclear Weapons Ban Side Session– Fission: Family, Community, Environment and Justice Impacts
On June 20, 2017, Nuclear Information and Resource Service (NIRS), joined by allied groups and hosted by the Permanent Mission of Austria to the United Nations, presented two side sessions at the United Nations in New York City: Fission: Family, Community, Environment and Justice Impacts; and The Road Back to the Nuclear Brink.
In this excerpt from Fission: Family, Community, Environment, and Justice Impacts, which included speakers Karina Lester, South Australia; Linda Cataldo Modica, Tennessee USA; Roland Oldham, Atomic Veteran, French Polynesia; and Mary Olson of NIRS, panelists discussed the humanitarian impacts of nuclear weapons production, testing, and use on health, families, communities and human rights.
Click HERE to download a PDF version of the Report to the President for Fission: Family, Community, Environment and Justice Impacts.
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