Low dose radiation panel: Please register to attend, comment

The National Academies is hosting another public meeting tomorrow, August 26, 11 AM - 5:45 PM ET (public comments 5:30 - 5:45 PM), to examine how to move forward on low dose radiation research. Please register. This study is sponsored by the Department of Energy, which has previously funded such research, despite past official decisions that limited its human exposure research. The committee is still provisional, so no action has been taken to remove a conflicted committee member, as requested by several groups. Research on low dose radiation impacts indicates damage to cells that were never directly hit by radiation, and evidence that radiation may be destabilizing our generational health. Regulations do not yet specifically account for these phenomena. More

NO CONSENT: Texans Reject High-Level Radioactive Waste -- Opponents of Plan to Dump More Nuclear Waste in Texas to Host Capitol Press Conference

For Immediate Release:

Aug. 24, 2021

Contact: Karen Hadden, karendhadden@gmail.com, 512-797-8481

Michael Coleman, mcoleman@citizen.org, 202-329-4743

MEDIA ADVISORY

NO CONSENT: Texans Reject High-Level Radioactive Waste

Opponents of Plan to Dump More Nuclear Waste in Texas to Host Capitol Press Conference

WHAT: The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is considering granting a license as soon as Sept. 13 to Interim Storage Partners to dump high-level radioactive waste in Andrews County, Texas near Odessa. Opposition at the city, county, state and federal levels demonstrate that Texans clearly do not consent to this dangerous threat to the environment and public health. Legislation that would pave the way for more nuclear waste dumping in Texas is currently pending in the state House of Representatives.

WHO: The Sustainable Energy & Economic Development (SEED) Coalition, Public Citizen and other opponents of making Texas the nation’s nuclear waste dumping ground.

WHEN: 10:30 a.m., CT, Wednesday, Aug. 25

WHERE: The South gate of the Texas Capitol in downtown Austin at the intersection of 11^th Street and South Congress. The event will be livestreamed on the Public Citizen Facebook page at www.facebook.com/publiccitizentx

VISUALS: An inflatable full-scale mock nuclear waste transport container will be displayed.

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At the invitation of our board member Kurumi Sugita, our 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: with Japanese subtitles and English subtitles. French subtitles will 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 high-risk plan, to begin dumping radioactive wastewater from Fukushima Daiichi into the Pacific Ocean less than two years from now, be immediately reversed.

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TROUBLED SCRAM AT PT. BEACH: Physicians' group requests NRC action

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PSR WI expert Arnie Gundersen, Chief Engineer at Fairewinds Associates, analyzed the trip, identifying four separate problems, focusing on aging-related degradation aspects of the root cause. PSR WI has requested an NRC Augmented Inspection Team to examine the incident. At the same time, Nukewatch Wisconsin's John LaForge has documented that emergency sirens have been turned off at the plant. We are honored to advise PSR WI.

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NO CONSENT! Texans reject high-level radioactive waste

Image courtesy of NoNuclearWasteAqui.orgAs NRC is poised to rubber-stamp the construction and operating license for Interim Storage Partners' irradiated nuclear fuel interim storage facility in Andrews County, Texas, on the New Mexico border, Texans continue to clearly express their non-consent for this environmentally unjust scheme. Dump opponents, Sustainable Energy & Economic Development (SEED) Coalition and Public Citizen, have tentatively scheduled a masked, socially distanced press conference for 10:30am CT, Wednesday, August 25th, on the south side of the Texas State Capitol. This despite the worsening pandemic emergency, flooding at the State Capitol, and arrest warrants for Democratic Texas state legislators (63 of whom also oppose the dump). A banner (pictured), and inflatable mock nuclear waste container, will be displayed.

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