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21 February WEBINAR – What Scientists Are Telling Us About Radiation that Nuclear Boosters Won’t

Feb 21, 2025 03:00 AM in Etc/GMT-10  https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_I6Urz_iGSR2Zvb43N08_GQ#/registration

Contacts: Stephen Kent, skent@kentcom.com, 914-589-5988 Mary Olson, olson.mary@gmail.com, 828-242–5621

A webinar sponsored by the NGO Gender + Radiation Impact Project, with leading experts on the impacts of radiation, to answer your questions about new research concerning harmful impacts of the nuclear energy and weapons industries. Join us! Presenters are Cindy Folkers of Beyond Nuclear, author of the book ‘The Scientists Who Alerted Us to the Dangers of Radiation,’ and Dr. Amanda Nichols, lead author of ‘Gender and Radiation: Towards a New Research Agenda, Addressing Disproportionate Harm,’ a new report by the UN Institute on Disarmament Research (UNIDIR). The event will be moderated by Mary Olson, Founder of the Gender and Radiation Impact Project.

A growing body of evidence reveals ionizing radiation disproportionately impacts women and young children. Those arguing for expanding nuclear power and weapons production pointedly ignore and contradict evidence of their harms — part of a pattern of suppression that goes back to the dawn of the nuclear age a century ago. Scientists who first revealed radiation’s harmful impacts were pilloried and had their funding and data seized. The pattern of suppression still holds today, but with the rush toward nuclear-powered AI centers and a new nuclear arms race looming, it has kicked into high gear. False claims and preposterous talk points from the nuclear industry are increasingly and uncritically repeated without challenge. For a quick, sourced primer on these issues, see the recent OpEd “They won’t tell you these truths about nuclear energy” in The Hill. https://thehill.com/opinion/energy-environment/5118792-nuclear-power-industry-radiation-debunk/

February 13, 2025 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Events