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.