All Entries Tagged With: "Nuclear Energy"
Preparing for a “Nuclear Event” in LA
Operation “Golden Phoenix” is Los Angeles County’s next preparedness drill intended to simulate a nuclear incident in LA area. The exercise, planned for summer 2010, will include a medical preparedness session in the lead-up to larger campaign.
Michael Rose: Nuclear Power’s Second Act?
Los Angeles-based filmmaker Michael Rose describes how the nuclear power industry’s PR efforts are adding to the recent rise in support for nuclear power as a solution to climate change. PSR-LA’s long-held responsibility lies in making sure the public does not forget the horrific medical consequences that nuclear technology can cause.
Demand Proper Cleanup of Radioactive and Chemical Contaminants
For years, PSR-LA worked to ensure the cleanup of the Santa Susana Field Laboratory (SSFL), the site of rocket engine tests, nuclear energy research and a partial nuclear meltdown in 1959. Extensive chemical and radioactive contamination exists across the site in soil, groundwater, and surface water.
Apr. 5 – Dr. Helen Caldicott
At this time of international tension, climate change and war, Helen is educating people about the dangers of global warming and nuclear power. Despite the nuclear industry’s propaganda to the contrary, nuclear power is NOT the answer to global warming. And, needless to say, we must reinstate nuclear treaties, stop the proliferation of deadly nuclear weapons and work for world peace. Helen is also committed to helping us propel the progressive agenda, to help steer the Obama administration in our direction.
Dec. 10 – Global Security Seminar—Brian Jenkins: “The Risks of Nuclear Terrorism”
Be prepared for an impressively dynamic speaker in December—Brian Jenkins is a Senior Adviser at the RAND Corporation. His accomplishments include: Captain, U.S. Army Special Forces with service in the Dominican Republic and Vietnam; Deputy Chairman, Kroll Associates; member, White House Commission on Aviation Safety and Security; adviser, National Commission on Terrorism; special advisor to [...]
Oct. 12 – Nuclear Traps – The New President, New Solutions
First Congregational Church of Long Beach 241 Cedar Avenue, Long Beach, CA 90802 A Free Community Event—All Are Welcome For more than three decades, Dr. Caldicott has passionately led an international campaign to educate the public about the medical hazards of the nuclear age, environmental destruction and how to prevent Armageddon. She is acknowledged as [...]
Health Professionals and Nuclear Policy
After holding two training sessions, the PSR-LA Ambassador Program: Health Professionals and Nuclear Policy, is shaping up to be the premier health professional voice on peace and security issues in Southern California.
Rocketdyne Cleanup Victory
For the last quarter century, former and present PSR-LA members and our environmental allies have fought to get the massive Santa Susana Field Laboratory, commonly known as “Rocketdyne,” cleaned up to the most stringent standards. The 2,850-acre Rocketdyne complex is situated about 35 miles northwest of Los Angeles in the hills between the San Fernando [...]
Nuclear Power Returns to California?
he nuclear industry is busily promoting nuclear reactors as the cool carbon-free environmental alternative. Thankfully, California’s legislators are not biting. On April 16, the Assembly Natural Resources Committee voted down a controversial bill that would have allowed the construction of nuclear power plants to resume in California. AB 719 (Devore) would have gutted California’s prescient [...]
Nuclear Power Is Not the Answer
The United States’ one hundred-plus nuclear reactors have created in excess of 50,000 tons of high-level radioactive trash. This material is so deadly it can deliver a lethal dose to a person standing three feet away in just seconds. Even after decades of radioactive decay, a few minutes of exposure is enough to kill. No [...]
2006 California Legislative Wrap-Up
PSR-LA was at the forefront of a number of legislative battles in Sacramento this year. There were many victories and a few defeats. To follow is a snapshot of how our busy year in Sacramento went. Signed AB 32: A landmark global warming initiative that imposes the nation’s first cap on greenhouse gas emissions. AB [...]
Chernobyl, Twenty Years Later
A Public Health and Environmental Assessment Almost twenty years has passed since I last traveled to Ukraine, a mere six months prior to the terrible Chernobyl disaster of April 26, 1986. In the fall of 1985, no one in Kiev appeared concerned about the four reactors just seventy miles away – and yet after that [...]