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A MOUNTAIN of WASTE 70 YEARS HIGH Ending the Nuclear Age A MOUNTAIN OF WASTE 70 YEARS HIGH Ending the Nuclear Age. A two-day conference in Chicago, IL SATURDAY, DECEMBER 1, 8:30AM-5:00PM REGISTRATION: Open to the public. $40 in International House, 1414 59th St., Chicago, IL advance. $50 at the door (includes lunch.) Register at www.neis.org. Featuring speaker panels addressing radioactive waste and its impact on people; the way forward MORE INFORMATION: Nuclear Energy Information without nuclear power; new nuclear weapons; the Service, (773) 342-7650. [email protected]. nuclear power-nuclear weapons connection; and a SPONSORED BY: plenary presentation: Fukushima, the never ending Nuclear Energy Information Service, www.neis.org story, with Akiko Yoshida, Friends of the Earth, Tokyo. Beyond Nuclear, www.BeyondNuclear.org 5:30pm: Reception. $30 per person, Assembly Hall. SATURDAY PROGRAM CO-SPONSORED BY: 7:00 pm: Keynote: Where are the People? Dr. Norma Field. Followed by Chicago premiere International House Global Voices Program film showing of Atomic States of America. (773) 753-2274 http://ihouse.uchicago.edu ————————————————————————-- SUNDAY, DECEMBER 2, 9:00AM-3:00PM Hutchinson Commons, Reynolds Hall, 5706 CO - SPONSOR: S. University Ave., Chicago, IL. UChicago Climate Action Network (U-CAN). Featuring speaker panels addressing the history, BACKGROUND storage and transportation challenges of “low-level” On December 2, 1942, scientists created the world’s and high-level radioactive waste; the way forward first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction at the without nuclear power and nuclear weapons; and a Fermi reactor in Chicago. The Atomic Age was born special plenary film featuring Father John Dear, an — and so was radioactive waste. internationally-known voice for peace and non-violence. In the 1950s, when commercial nuclear power 3:30pm: Memorial to the nuclear age. Ceremony, plants began to produce electricity, using uranium Henry Moore Sculpture to Nuclear Power, 56th and fuel, they also began to produce tremendous Ellis, University of Chicago campus. amounts of radioactive waste. Much of that waste ————————————————————————-- will remain hazardous for thousands of years and beyond. Radioactive wastes are produced at every Speakers include: Akiko Yoshida, Friends of the Earth, stage of the uranium fuel chain — at mines, mills, Japan; Dr. Arjun Makhijani, president, Institute for Energy chemical conversion and enrichment plants, during and Environmental Research; Dr. Norma Field, Univ. of fuel fabrication and reprocessing, and most Chicago Robert S. Ingersoll Distinguished Service dangerously at the reactor sites. Professor of Japanese Studies emerita; Robert Chavez, San Juan Pueblo; Charmaine White Face, Defenders of No permanent, safe location or technology has ever the Black Hills; Kevin Kamps and Paul Gunter, Beyond been found—and may never be found—to isolate Nuclear; Kristen Iversen, author, Full Body Burden; Jeff even the first cupful of radioactive waste from the Patterson, board member, Physicians for Social biosphere. And yet we continue to generate more Responsibility; Diane D’Arrigo, Nuclear Information & and more — a mountain of waste 70 years high. Resource Service; Kay Drey, board member, Beyond Nuclear; and Arne Jungjohann, Heinrich Böll Foundation Persons with disabilities that may need assistance should contact the Office of Programs & External Relations in advance (German Green Party). of the program at: (773) 753-2274. .
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