Beyond Nuclear International Weekly Digest January 16th, 2023

Posted: 16th January 2023

MONDAY, JANUARY 16, 2023

Beyond Nuclear International Weekly Digest

The most polluted place in the US and possibly the world is the Hanford Nuclear Site. Joshua Frank’s new book reveals just how bad it is. And radioactivity found at a St. Louis elementary school reminds us of the extreme risk to children from the nuclear sector.

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On the precipice of catastrophe

The cleanup job is going badly, the tanks are leaking radioactive sludge, the vitrification plant doesn’t work and there is inadequate accountability. But that’s just the tip of an iceberg of incompetency, author Joshua Frank says, about work at the old US nuclear weapons site at Hanford, where, he warns, we are at risk of a nuclear disaster. READ MORE

Children most at risk

When Cindy Folkers and Linda Pentz Gunter of Beyond Nuclear reviewed the studies on children and exposure to radiation from the nuclear sector, they found those in the poorest communities of color suffered the most. But they remain unprotected. In a peer-reviewed article for the British Medical Journal (Pediatrics Open) the two authors looked at the plight of children and what needs to change. READ MORE

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