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LOCAL Announcement :: Environment

"Nuclear Power and Children's Health: What YOU Can Do!"

a two-day symposium featuring speakers, exhibits, and involvement opportunities on protecting children, the public and the environment from the hazards of ionizing radiation.
WHERE:St. Scholastica Academy, 7416 N. Ridge, Chicago IL

WHEN: Friday, Oct. 15th , 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.; Saturday, Oct. 16th, 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.; optional dinners after conference each day beginning at 6 p.m.

WHO: 20 nationally and internationally renown experts on nuclear power, waste and radiation
hazards presenting on variety of topics. A list is attached in Word (checked by Norton’s AV). Featured speaker is Dr. Helen Caldicott, the President and Founder of Nuclear Policy and Research Institute (NPRI), and founder of Physicians for Social Responsibility. Pre-, post- and at-site interviews, or studio taping available pending speaker availability (see attached list). A taped segment featuring Dr. Patch Adams of the Gesundheit Institute will also be shown on Saturday.

The symposium is co-sponsored by the Nuclear Information and Resource Service (NIRS), Physicians for Social Responsibility—Chicago (PSR), the North Suburban Peace Initiative (NSPI), and the Nuclear Energy Information Service (NEIS).

The Conference is aimed at a broad spectrum of attendees. Friday is largely aimed at physicians, academics, researchers, health professionals, members of the media and others whose specialty brings them in contact with radiation and health effects. Saturday is aimed at a more generalist audience.

WHY: For the past several years the nuclear industry and its allies and advocates have embarked on the promotion of what they refer to as a “nuclear renaissance.” At its most basic, the intended result would be an expansion of all aspects of the nuclear industry – nuclear power, nuclear weapons, food irradiation, de-regulation of radioactive wastes for re-manufacture into consumer products, and non-fissile radiation weaponry on the battlefields. It would also require significantly more “permissive” exposure standards for ionizing radiation; and a de facto increase in the “officially permissible” doses of radiation for the general public, workers and members of the military.

This plan – requiring as it does the “acceptance” of higher and more numerous doses of radiation -- is totally incompatible with recent research revelations about the paradoxically more harmful effects of lower doses of ionizing radiation, the inadequacy of current radiation standards, and fundamental mis-understandings regarding what seems to occur at the cellular level with radiation exposure. Given these new understandings and findings, the Precautionary Principle demands a more conservative approach towards radiation exposure – less exposure, not an increase, as the plans of the nuclear industry would require.

No population is more genetically and physiologically vulnerable to this exposure increase than children. This Conference intends to educate the public on these new findings, and about the nuclear industry’s plans for a more radioactive world. More importantly, it will provide the public with an array of options of what they personally can do to protect their children, themselves and the environment from this unnecessary radiation exposure.

For more information about Nuclear Power and Children’s Health, go to the NPRI website: www.nuclearpolicy.org/conferences.cfm Locally, from NEIS at (847)869-7650; neis (at) neis.org
 
 

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