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Recent Press coverage :
3/11 and todays ongoing legacy : Asahi Shimbaum, Japan
[Popular Science February 2016] Fukushima: Five Years Later- A clear overview
[Put on a Happy Face – Japan]Arnie Gundersen, Fairewinds, reporting from Japan now. This audio episode is on daily living impacts.
[Japan Diary 2016]Mary Olsen of NIRS reporting from Japan now
[The Telegraph UK photos]Namie: Abandoned Town in Japan’s Chernobyl
[Simply Info, the Fukushima Project 2014]Kawauchi: Citizens step in where government has failed Fukushima children
[Mainichi JP December 2015]Over 9 million bags of nuclear clean up waste piled up across Fukushima
[South China Morning Post February 2016]Five years on, contamination crisisJapan to consider ocean disposal [Ashahi Shimbum December 2015]
[Ashahi Shimbum February2016http://www.asahi.com/ajw/japan/0311disaster/]For Fukushima mothers, protecting children from radiation comes at a heavy price
[Fairewinds Energy Education November 2015]Cancer on the Rise in post-Fukushima
[Japan Times February 2016]Public Housing for Disaster Victims
Fact Sheets created by Beyond Nuclear. Please feel free to reproduce and distribute with credit.
▪Epic Fail: Électricité de France and the “Evolutionary Power Reactor”
The EPR: is it a reactor without a future? February 2015
▪Nuclear Power and Children
This fact sheet details the particular dangers radiation exposure poses to children’s health
▪Thorium and Nuclear Weapons
By Dr. Gordon Edwards. July 2013
▪Thorium Failures: A U.S. History
A look at the U.S. experience with thorium, by Bob Alvarez
▪Thorium: the wonder fuel that wasn’t
By Robert Alvarez, May 2014
▪The Myths About Thorium as a Nuclear Energy Solution
Beyond Nuclear Fact Sheet. 2012.
▪Pandora’s False Promises: The Integral Fast Reactor. Longer Fact Sheet
A more detailed and footnoted version of the IFR Fact Sheet. Jan. 2013.
▪Pandora’s False Promises: Two-Page Fact Sheet on the Integral Fast Reactor
A two-page summary of the myths and facts about the Integral Fast Reactor. January 2013.
▪Small modular reactors
A critical look by Dr. Edwin Lyman, Union of Concerned Scientists. November 21, 2012.
▪Freeze our Fukushimas – Shut US GE Mark I reactors
March 2012
▪Talking Points: Top ten reasons reprocessing is a bad idea
Nov/Dec 2008
▪Nuclear Power’s Toxic Assets: A View from Wall Street
2009
▪Nuclear subsidies – an outline
May 20, 2009
▪Nuclear Power in France
2008
▪In Support of Renewable Energy
2008
▪Renewable Energy and Jobs
2008
▪Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency
2008
▪Climate Chaos and Nuclear Power
2008
▪Individual Contributions to Rep. Upton Associated with the Nuclear Industry
October, 2010 update based on Federal Election Commission data
▪Renewable Electricity Production & Nuclear Power: A Climate-Saving Comparison
April 2010
▪Tritium:a universal health threat released by every nuclear reactor
March 2010
▪Radiation Basics: The what, why and how of radiation damage
March 2010
▪Rep. Upton’s Campaign Contributions from Nuclear Industry Related PACs
October, 2010 update based on Federal Election Commission data
▪Fred Upton, One of the Nuclear Industry’s Best Friends in Congress
2 page summary, updated 10/10/10
▪Fred Upton, One of the Nuclear Industry’s Best Friends in Congress
22 page report, with citations, 2008
▪Precaution is Prevention: A Roadmap
2009
▪Routine Releases: Tritium and noble gases
January 2009
▪Ten Reasons to Say No to Nuclear and Ten Brighter Ideas
2009
▪The Nuclear Power Nuclear Weapons Link
April 2008
▪NO safe dose
Listing of expert quotes stating there is no safe dose of radiation.
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