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Birth Defects Near Hanford: Watch Interview with 'Plutopia' Author Prof. Kate Brown

Birth Defects Near Hanford: Watch Interview with 'Plutopia' Author Prof. Kate Brown

Import, Nuclear Waste, Videos December 13, 2017 at 6:41 am 0 comments

Interview with Prof. Kate Brown author of “Plutopia: Nuclear Families in Atomic Cities and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters” about the high number of cases of rare birth defects near the Hanford Nuclear Reservation.

Ending Fissile Materials Production: A Fissile Material Cut-off Treaty and Beyond

Ending Fissile Materials Production: A Fissile Material Cut-off Treaty and Beyond

Nuclear Weapons December 6, 2017 at 4:36 am 0 comments

Policy Brief by Asia Pacific Leadership Network

The stalled negotiation of a fissile materials cut-off treaty (FMCT) may finally be restarted by the setting up of a high-level expert preparatory group whose mandate is to make recommendations on substantial elements for a future treaty. Meanwhile, the world (except the nuclear weapon possessor states, and those states under the umbrella of extended nuclear deterrence arrangements) welcomed the adoption of the Treaty on Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (Ban Treaty) in July 2017.

CIA’s lost plutonium in the Himalayas: Radioactive for centuries

CIA’s lost plutonium in the Himalayas: Radioactive for centuries

Nuclear Safety, Radiation and Health January 5, 2012 at 12:15 pm 4 comments

Legacy of CIA Himalayan Operation Could Imperil Millions

Plutonium from Sellafield in all children’s teeth

Plutonium from Sellafield in all children’s teeth

Government admits plant is the source of contamination but says risk is ‘minute’ By Anthony Barnett, public affairs editor The Observer, November 30th 2003   Radioactive pollution from the Sellafield nuclear plant in Cumbria has led to children’s teeth across Britain being contaminated with plutonium. The Government has admitted forRead More