Freeze Our Fukushimas!
October 7, 2011 – 10am to 12 noon EST National Call In Day to NRC
Call Toll Free

Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s Public Hearing with Beyond Nuclear
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1-877-553-7601 (passcode 5087356)
1-866-741-7099 (passcode 3340595)
1-866-732-2413 (passcode 8181837)
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Webcast at http://video.nrc.gov
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Following the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear accident in Ukraine, the US government permanently closed a US reactor, the graphite-moderated Hanford N-reactor near Richland, Washington. Why? The antiquated reactor too closely resembled the design of the exploded Chernobyl reactor that blanketed much of the northern hemisphere in long-lived radioactive fallout.

Now following Japan’s 2011 Fukushima nuclear catastrophe, more than 6,000 of you have co-petitioned with us to call upon the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to “Freeze Our Fukushimas” and shutter dangerously old and deteriorating General Electric Mark I boiling water reactors here in the US similar in design to the Fukushima Dai-ichi units. There, nuclear accidents have closed 24 miles of Japan’s coastline to human habitation and forced hundreds of thousands more Japanese to live in sickening radioactive contamination.

The NRC has scheduled a public hearing to take public comment on requested emergency enforcement actions to suspend operations at these increasingly dangerous Fukushima-style nuclear reactors. Speakers will include Paul Gunter and Kevin Kamps (Beyond Nuclear), Dale Bridenbaugh (former GE engineer), Arnie Gunderson (Fairewinds Associates), Deb Katz (Citizens Awareness Network), Lou Zeller (Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League), Randy Kehler (Safe & Green Campaign), Michael Mariotte (Nuclear Information and Resource Service), Bobbie Paul (Georgia WAND) and more…

You can participate in this public meeting via the toll free telephone bridge lines above, or watch the live webcast from NRC headquarters.

Webcast at http://video.nrc.gov

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Please mark your calendars and help us to mobilize a national campaign to hasten the closure of the most dangerous atomic reactors in America. Invite your friends, colleagues and post on listserves.

Freeze Our Fukushimas!

Thank you for working with us for a nuclear-free world.

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Powerful eye-witness accounts from Japan move audiences in New York and DC

She’d traveled almost 7,000 miles but on September 22 Sachiko Sato found herself just a couple of hundred yards from her Prime Minister, Yoshihiko Noda of Japan. Seizing the megaphone as she stood at a rally near the UN, she urged him not to abandon Fukushima’s children and to end nuclear power as Noda attended an event across the street. Sato is a natural farmer and mother of four from the devastated Fukushima Prefecture, contaminated with deadly radioactivity from the nuclear disaster that began on March 11, 2011. She was in New York and Washington DC last week with a delegation of Japanese activists, to talk to the public, Congress, Commissioners and staff at the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the press about the reality of life under the metaphorical and actual Fukushima radiation cloud. Describing communities ripped apart, livelihoods crushed and children displaced, the group called for proper evacuation of Fukushima families and support from the world in closing nuclear plants so that their suffering would not be in vain. To hear the delegations’ New York presentation in full, watch the video. (Photo: ©David M. Grossman.) REMINDER: “Freeze Our Fukushimas” National Call In Day to NRC, October 7, 2011  10 AM to 12 Noon EST, Toll free numbers. Support the Beyond Nuclear emergency enforcement petition to suspend operations of all Fukushima-style reactors in the USA. Thanks for taking action. And please also consider making a donation to Beyond Nuclear today. Your support will help us build a grassroots movement to close dangerous nuclear plants and create a safe energy future for our children.

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The Beyond Nuclear Team
www.beyondnuclear.org

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Kevin Kamps
Radioactive Waste Watchdog
Beyond Nuclear
6930 Carroll Avenue, Suite 400
Takoma Park, Maryland 20912
Office: (301) 270-2209 ext. 1
Fax: (301) 270-4000
kevin@beyondnuclear.org
www.beyondnuclear.org

Beyond Nuclear aims to educate and activate the public about the connections between nuclear power and nuclear weapons and the need to abandon both to safeguard our future. Beyond Nuclear advocates for an energy future that is sustainable, benign and democratic.

Sister Jackie, along with Sisters Ardeth Platte and Carol Gilbert, was arrested for her Plowshares action at N-8 in 2002.

Carpool from Boulder, Colorado Springs of Denver.

For carpool locations, or for directions to the silo, please contact:

Judith in Boulder – 303-444-6981

Bill in Colorado Springs – 719-389-0644

Mary in Denver – 303-807-2109

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Sponsered by Pax Christi Denver

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Evening of Peace,
September 21 from 6 PM to 9 PM
at the Band Shell at City Park in Denver.

This is just west across the lake from the Denver Museum of Nature & Science.

There will be music, peace dances and free peace stuff.

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Nothing like FREE PEACE STUFF!! Come celebrate Sept 21 as the International Day of Peace

Wouldn’t it be great if everyone in Denver who wants and believes in PEACE could make it to this. If for no other reason that we could all see that we are not a minority. Or, at least to do something really important like just smile at each other.

The Colorado Coalition is proud to present Peace Troubadour Cecilia St. King in concert at the Mercury Cafe.

See you at the Capitol Steps in Denver, April 26 at 4 PM
Speakers, Music, Street Theater!!!
It’s time to take a deep look at the Chernobyl, Fukushima events and what they should teach us concerning the future and how we must at!!

Rocky Flats: A Call to Guardianship

Nuclear Guardianship combines art, science and remembrance to address the seemingly intractable human-caused problem of nuclear contamination with insight and creativity. By building commitment and community, the project will explore and encourage implementation of Nuclear Guardianship at the site of the defunct Rocky Flats nuclear bomb plant, where for 37 years the fissile plutonium pits for all warheads in the U.S. nuclear arsenal were produced. Tiny plutonium particles remaining in the soil make the site a hazard essentially forever. Nuclear Guardianship is a powerful manifestation of a cultural shift away from secrecy and denial towards ecological responsibility. It will provide a model for long-term environmental caretaking at other radioactively contaminated sites. But first we must challenge the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service plan to manage most of the Rocky Flats site as a wildlife refuge open for public recreation. Nuclear Guardianship is a commitment for the millennia — a pledge to our children’s children’s…children.

A special traveling exhibition-open to the public –will be on display at the North Classroom Building Atrium at the Auraria Campus in Denver throughout the day March 27 through 31. The Theme is “Transforming the Human Spirit” and its lead statement is:

In an increasingly interdependent world. We share responsibility for the security of all human beings. Is it possible to transform the culture of violence into a culture of peace?

Judith Mohling and Bob Kinsey will be speaking on Tuesday evening and answering questions specifically with regard to the focus on nuclear weapons and their abolition.

Naropa University, Nalanda Campus, RM. 918 6287 Arapahoe Ave at 63rd St. (cars enter on 63rd.) 7:30 PM
Marco Kaltofen President of the Boston Chemical Data Corp and investigator of nuclear releases at such places as Hanford and Los Alamos with biologist Harvey Nichols and Meteorologist W, Gale Biggs.
Full information about this and other Guardianship events at Http://www.rockyflatsnuclearguardianship.org

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LeRoy Moore, Ph.D.
Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice Center
P. O. Box 1156, Boulder, Colorado 80306-1156 USA
E-mail address: leroymoore@earthlink.net
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The Colorado Coalition March Board meeting is Tuesday March 8 at 7:30 PM
1104 5th Avenue West in Denver. All interested are welcome

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