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CHAPTER 2 – NUCLEAR MADNESS

BETRAYAL

1.       To learn more of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, visit http://www.pcf.city.hiroshima.jp/peacesite/. Be prepared to be angry.

2.      A collection of Hiroshima and Nagasaki links can be found at http://www.pcf.city.hiroshima.jp/peacesite/English/Stage0/link.html

3.       Learn of the Hanford Nuclear Reservation and the efforts underway to help the “downwinders.” Visit http://www.hhia.org/

4.       Particularly interesting is a web site devoted to how to help downwinders cope. Visit http://www.doh.wa.gov/hanford/publications/coping/coping.html.

5.      See documents about the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki at http://www.dannen.com/decision/.

6.       Learn about the vast amounts of plutonium in the world from http://www.nci.org/nci/.

7.      Enter the surreal world of nuclear submarines by visiting http://www.bellona.no/imaker?sub=1&id=11093

8.       Keep watch on nuclear testing through Greenpeace at http://www.greenpeace.org/~comms/rw/yr50.html. Also visit http://www.agora.stm.it/politic/c-nuke.htm. for anti nuclear testing information.

9.       E-mail the President of the U.S. at president@whitehouse.gov .

10.   Still think that there is not enough money in the world to do the right thing? Visit http://www.worldgame.org/wwwproject/index.shtml and learn that it is not a matter of money, it is a matter of values and choices.

The Radioactive Dinner Table - An Industry Gone Mad

1.       The Critical Mass Energy and Environmental Project will give you many opportunities to get involved in this and other issues at  http://www.citizen.org/cmep/

2.       Read a detailed account of these issues from the Progressive Magazine article "Nuclear Spoons" by Anne-Marie Cusac at http://www.progressive.org/cusac9810.htm

3.       Visit the EPA's Clean Metals Program website at http://www.epa.gov/radiation/cleanmetals/index.html

4.       For current action alerts on this issue with information on how to get involved, go to http://www.ratical.org/radiation/radMetalRecyc.html and http://www.nirs.org/

5.       Read the story of a young boy whose death is being attributed to radioactive building materials in Taiwan at http://www.teputc.org.tw/issue/rad/rad1-eng.htm

6.       Send email to the EPA at public-access@epamail.epa.gov expressing your concern. Demand that they have a zero tolerance for radioactive metals. Also send email to:

John Karhnak, EPA Cleanup and Reuse Center at karhnak.john@epamail.epa.gov

EPA Administrator at public-access@epamail.epa.gov

7.       Find out who your Congressional representatives are and e-mail them. Demand federal intervention to stop the flood of radioactive metals into the marketplace.  If you know your Zip code, you can find them at http://www.visi.com/juan/congress/ziptoit.html

8.       Read of the protest of the plan supported by Al Gore while he was Vice President to make 100,000 tons of radioactive metal available for consumer goods at http://www.citizen.org/CMEP/radmetal/goreltr.htm

9.       Track the U.S. government radioactive waste management program at the Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management at http://www.rw.doe.gov/

10.   Some steel mill operators do not want radioactive scrap. Read about them at http://www.steelnet.org/

11.   Visit the web site of a company that processes radioactive metals at http://www.mfgsci.com/metproc.html

12.   Gulf War Syndrome may be caused by exposure to radioactive waste in the form of depleted uranium shells. Read about it at http://www.thenation.com/issue/970714/0714mesl.htm

With This Ring, I Thee . . . Radiate?

1.       The Nuclear Control Institute has many links of nuclear issues at

2.       See a special report on illnesses in people who live and work around the nation’s nuclear plants at

3.       See a summary of the radioactive metals issue at

4.       Joby Warrick of the Washington Post has been reporting on the Paducah plant in stories published on August 8 and August 14, 1999. You can find the stories (for a fee) in the archives at (“In Harm’s Way, And In the Dark; Workers Exposed to Plutonium at U.S. Plant” and “Radioactive Gold: Did It Go To Market?”)

More than just your food . . .

1.       The food irradiation industry has its own website. See it at http://www.food-irradiation.com/ and http://www.iaea.or.at/worldatom/inforesource/other/food/index.html

2.       Learn more about free radicals in your body and in your food at http://www.staywellvitamins.com/oxygen.htm

3.       Visit Steritech at http://www.steritech.com.au/welcome.htm, an Australian company that specializes in irradiating many products. Learn about the citizen campaign against them at
http://www.sea-us.org.au/corpfilez/sterileco.html

4.       Learn about many food issues from the Organic Consumers Association at http://www.purefood.org/index.htm (Formerly known as the Pure Food Campaign)

5.       Stay in touch with organic farmers through http://web.iquest.net/ofma/

6.       Food safety issues are address by the Center for Science in the Public Interest at http://www.cspinet.org/foodsafety/index.html

7.       Find out who your elected representatives are and e-mail them. Tell them it is time to stop food irradiation because of the potential catastrophic effects if only a fraction of the concerns are true. If you know your Zip code, you can find them at http://www.visi.com/juan/congress/ziptoit.html

Just When You Thought It Was Safe to Lead Your Life . . . Boom!

1.       Learn more about the Abolition 2000 effort at http://www.abolition2000.org/index.html, where you can find references to much of the material presented in this article. Join in their efforts.

2.       Find your Congressperson and e-mail them. If you know your Zip code, you can find them at http://www.visi.com/juan/congress/ziptoit.html and tell them your feelings about the hypocrisy of the U.S. nuclear program.

3.       Visit the High Energy Weapons Archive at http://www.envirolink.org/issues/nuketesting/hew/, which has considerable information on these issues.

4.       Learn of worldwide efforts to stop nuclear testing at the Coalition to Reduce Nuclear Dangers website at http://www.clw.org/pub/clw/coalition/index.html.

5.       The Nuclear Control Institute can help you with information and actions at http://www.nci.org/nci/index.htm

1.       Read about those people who have been directly affected by our nuclear weapons program at the Hanford Health Information Network at http://www.doh.wa.gov/hanford/publications/coping/coping.html where people who have lived and suffered downwind from the Hanford nuclear facility tell their stories.

2.       Joanna Macy’s books are a valuable resource. They include Despair and Personal Power in the Nuclear Age, Coming Back to Life, and World and Lover, World as Self.

3.       Visit an interview with Joanna Macy at http://www.context.org/ICLIB/IC28/Macy.htm and http://www.context.org/ICLIB/IC22/Macy.htm

4.       Visit the owlcam at http://www.owlcam.com/ to see a family of owls living and raising their young. Remind yourself of the miraculous cycles of life. Updated daily.

5.       A large list of nuclear opposition web sites can be found at http://www.prop1.org/prop1/antinuke.htm which is the page of a Berkeley student who has done a very thorough job on the issue.

The Rape of the Future – for the sake of a few dollars

1.        See the license renewal process described at the NRC website at http://www.nrc.gov/NRC/REACTOR/LR/

2.        Get involved and make your voice heard! Demand that these old plants be forced to close or rebuild their aging components. Visit the NRC Public Involvement website and put in your comments at http://www.nrc.gov/NRC/public.html

3.        Learn how to oppose the Bush energy scheme with the help of the Union of Concerned Scientists at http://www.ucsusa.org/act/act_scheme.html

4.        Check out Daily Events from the NRC Operations Center at http://www.nrc.gov/NRR/DAILY/der.htm. Be prepared to be scared.

5.        For a list of all U.S. nuclear reactors and their license expiration dates, visit http://www.nrc.gov/NRC/NUREGS/SR1350/V12/part11.html.

6.        See the a list of nuclear reactors worldwide at http://www.nrc.gov/NRC/NUREGS/SR1350/V12/part19.html

7.        Visit the Nuclear Guardianship Library to learn of what we should be doing with the tragic legacy of nuclear waste at http://www.nonukes.org/ngl.htm

8.       Find out who your Congressional representatives are and e-mail them. Demand that they stop the rubber stamp relicensing of dangerous nuclear plants. If you know your Zip code, you can find them at http://www.visi.com/juan/congress/ziptoit.html

9.       Visit the University of Wisconsin’s reactor site at http://reactor.engr.wisc.edu/.

10.   See the technical requirements for license renewal at http://www.nrc.gov/NRC/CFR/PART054/part054-0021.html

11.   Visit the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s reactor information site at http://www.nrc.gov/NRC/reactors.html

12.   Visit the Bureau of Atomic Tourism for a tour of our nation’s nuclear legacy at http://www.atomictourist.com/. 

13.   Explore Joanna Macy’s “Nuclear Guardianship” concept that could save us all at http://www.ratical.com/radiation/NGP/index.html  and http://www.ratical.com/radiation/NGP/WUHearings.txt  and http://www.nonukes.org/  and http://www.ratical.com/radiation/WorldUraniumHearing/EndNuclearAge.html.

14.   Read about a conference you probably never knew took place in 1993 called Poison Fire, Sacred Earth at http://www.ratical.com/radiation/WorldUraniumHearing/index.html. 

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