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Archive Footage / All Star Lectures of the Symposium Day 2

May 9, 2013 By in Event, Lecture, Speech Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , Leave a comment

Symposium: The Medical and Ecological Consequences of the Fukushima Nuclear Accident

Tuesday March 12th, 9AM~6:30PM (Day2) 

The New York Academy of Medicine, New York City, NY

A unique, two-day symposium at which an international panel of leading medical and biological scientists, nuclear engineers, and policy experts will make presentations on and discuss the bio-medical and ecological consequences of the Fukushima disaster, will be held at The New York Academy of Medicine on March 11-12, 2013, the second anniversary of the accident. The public is welcome.

A project of The Helen Caldicott Foundation, the symposium is being co-sponsored by Physicians for Social Responsibility.

“Day 2 Opening Remark by Andrew Kanter, MD, MPH”
HD, 6 min 55 sec, in English

Andrew Kanter, MD, MPH
Session Chair, Physicians for Social Responsibility

“Lessons from Chernobyl”
HD, 21 min 37 sec, in English

Dr. Alexey Yablokov
Russian Academy of Sciences

“Remark after Dr. Alexey Yablokov Lecture”
HD, 1 min 33 sec, in English

Andrew Kanter, MD, MPH
Session Chair, Physicians for Social Responsibility

“Congenital Malformations in Rivne Polossia and the Chernobyl Accident”
HD, 32 min 19 sec, in English

Dr. Wladimir Wertelecki
Former Chair of the Department of Medical Genetics and Birth Defects
University of South Alabama

“Remark after Dr. Wladimir Wertelecki Lecture”
HD, 1 min 56 sec, in English

Andrew Kanter, MD, MPH
Session Chair, Physicians for Social Responsibility

“Nuclear Disaster at Fukushima: source terms: health effects”
HD, 38 min 53 sec, in English

Dr. Ian Fairlie
Radiation Biologist and Independent Consultant

“Health Impacts of Radiation Release from Nuclear Facilities: Lessons Past and Present”
HD, 31 min 41 sec, in English

Dr. Steven Wing
Gillings School of Global Public Health
University of North Carolina

“Post Fukushima Increases in Newborn Hypothyroidism on the West Coast of USA”
HD, 16 min 38 sec, in English

Joseph Mangano
Executive Director
Radiation and Public Health Project

“Remark after Joseph Mangano Lecture and Introduction of Robert Alvalez”
HD, 1 min 24 sec, in English

Andrew Kanter, MD, MPH
Session Chair, Physicians for Social Responsibility

“Reducing the Risks of Spent Power Reactor Fuel”
HD, 30 min 14 sec, in English

Robert Alvarez
Senior Scholar, Institute for Policy Studies in Washington DC
Former Senior Policy Advisor at the U.S. Energy Department under President Clinton

“Report from Japan: Introduction”
HD, 3 min 24 sec, in English

Kazko Kawai
Voices for Lively Spring

“Report from Japan: Health Effects Seen in Children”
HD, 4 min 52 sec, in English

Yurika Hashimoto, MD
Since June 2011, Dr. Hashimoto has seen more than 500 affected children

in Fukushima and other areas in East Japan.

“Report from Japan: Overall Health Situations in Japan”
HD, 11 min 8 sec, in English

Mari Takenouchi
Journalist
Mari left Tokyo on March 15, 2011 for Okinawa. Concerned about the health situation in Japan, she sent a 56-page letter to the UN.

“Report from Japan: Debris~the World of Corruption~”
HD, 12 min 33 sec, in English

Kazko Kawai
Voices for Lively Spring
Kazko became an activist when the debris problem arose.

“Report from Japan: My Observation in Japan”
HD, 8 min 20 sec, in English

Jeffrey Patterson, DO
President / Physicians for Social Responsibility

Dr. Patterson was engaged in talks in Japan after the IPPNW world congress in Hiroshima last August, and also took part in health interviews with local families.

“Report from Japan”
HD, 1 min 34 sec, in English

Participant Comment

“Remark on Joseph Mangano Lecture”
HD, 2 min 39 sec, in English

Donald Louria, MD
Chairman Emeritus
Department of Preventive Medicine and Community Health
University of Medicine and Dentistry, New Jersey

“Post-Fukushima Food Monitoring in the US”
HD, 17 min 24 sec, in English

Cindy Folkers
Radiation and Health Specialist
Beyond Nuclear

“Gender Matters in the Atomic Age”
HD, 17 min 30 sec, in English

Mary Olson
Southeast Regional Director
Nuclear Information & Resource Service

The NIRS radiation health effects page

“Seventy Years of Radioactive Risks in Japan and America”
HD, 29 min 55 sec, in English

Kevin Kamps
Specialist in High Level Waste Management and Transportation
Beyond Nuclear

“My Experience with Nuclear Power”
HD, 24 min 47 sec, in English

David Freeman
Former Chair
Tennessee Valley Authority

2 Video Message from Japan / Symposium Day 1

March 8, 2013 By in Event, Lecture, Speech Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , Leave a comment

Symposium: The Medical and Ecological Consequences of the Fukushima Nuclear Accident

“My Experiences as Prime Minister during the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster”
HD, 16 min, in Japanese with English Subtitle

Naoto KAN

Member of the House of Representatives of the Japanese Diet, Former Prime Minister of Japan

“Fukushima Daiichi: A Chronological Account of the Disaster”
HD, 14 min 53 sec, in Japanese with English Subtitle

Hiroaki Koide

Master of Science in Nuclear Engineering, Assistant Professor at the Kyoto University Research Institute, Nuclear Waste Management & Safety Expert

Videographed & Edited by Intertelemedia, Inc
Translated by Kazko Kawai, Voices for Lively Spring
Subtitled by East River Films Inc

The New York Academy of Medicine, New York City, NY

Monday March 11th, 9AM~6PM (Day1) & Tuesday 12th, 9AM~6PM (Day2) Eastern Time

A unique, two-day symposium at which an international panel of leading medical and biological scientists, nuclear engineers, and policy experts will make presentations on and discuss the bio-medical and ecological consequences of the Fukushima disaster, will be held at The New York Academy of Medicine on March 11-12, 2013, the second anniversary of the accident. The public is welcome.

A project of The Helen Caldicott Foundation, the symposium is being co-sponsored by Physicians for Social Responsibility.

The Presenters:

The event will be chaired by Donald Louria, MD: Chairman Emeritus of the Department of Preventive Medicine and Community Health, University of Medicine and Dentistry, New Jersey.

Confirmed speakers include:

Dr. Tim Mousseau, Professor of Biological Sciences, University of South Carolina – Chernobyl, Fukushima and Other Hot Places, Biological Consequences

Ken Buesseler, Marine Scientist, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute –Consequences for the Ocean of the Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant Accident

David Lochbaum, The Union of Concerned Scientists – Another Unsurprising Surprise

Dr. Wladimir Wertelecki, President of the Board, OMNI-Net Ukraine Child Development Programs (current). Professor of Biomedical Anthropology (Adjunct) Graduate Program in Biomedical Anthropology, State University of New York at Binghamton, NY (2011-). Former Chair of the Department of Medical Genetics and Birth Defects, University of South Alabama, 1974-2010 – Congenital Malformations in Rivne Polossia and the Chernobyl Accident

Dr. Marek Niedziela, Professor of Pediatrics, Poznan (Poland) University of Medical Sciences – Differential diagnosis of ultrasonographic thyroid lesions in children

Dr. Alexy Yablokov, Russian Academy of Sciences – Lessons from Chernobyl

Akio Matsumura, Founder of the Global Forum of Spiritual and Parliamentary Leaders – What did the World Learn from the Fukushima Accident?

Robert Alvarez, Senior Scholar, Institute for Policy Studies, formerly of DoE – Management of Spent Fuel Pools and Radioactive Waste

Arnie Gundersen, Nuclear Engineer, Fairewinds Associates – What Did They Know and When Did They Know It?

Dr. David Brenner, Higgins Professor Radiation Biophysics, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University – Mechanistic Models for Effects of Ionizing Radiation on Living Systems

Dr. Steven Wing, Associate Professor Epidemiology, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University North Carolina – Epidemiologic studies of radiation releases from nuclear facilities: Lessons past and present.

Steven Starr, Senior Scientist, Physicians for Social Responsibility, Clinical Laboratory Science Program Director, University of Missouri – The implications of the massive contamination of Japan with radioactive cesium

David Freeman, Engineer and Attorney, Former Chairman of TVA, Office of Science and Technology in charge of energy and the environment in the Johnson White House, and for 2 years under Nixon –The Rise and Fall of Nuclear Power

Dr. Ian Fairlie, Radiation Biologist and Independent Consultant on Radiation Risks, Former Scientific Secretary to UK Government’s Committee Examining Radiation Risks from Internal Emitters – The Nuclear Disaster at Fukushima: Nuclear Source Terms, Initial Health Effects

Andrew S. Kanter, MD MPH FACMI, Immediate Past-President of Physicians for Social Responsibility – Moderator, Health Effects Panel.

Dr. Hisako Sakiyama, Doctor of Medicine, Former Senior Researcher in National Institute Radiological Sciences, Member of Fukushima Nuclear Accident Independent Investigative Commission  – Risk Assessment of Low Dose Radiation in Japan; What Became Clear to The National Diet of Japan Fukushima Nuclear Accident Independent Investigation Commission

Dr. Herbert Abrams, Stanford University, Emeritus Professor Radiology, Stanford University, Member Biological Effects of Ionizing Radiation Committee National Academy Sciences (BEIR V11)  – “The Hazards of Low-level Ionizing Radiation: Controversy and Evidence.”

Kevin Kamps, Specialist in High Level Waste Management and Transportation, Beyond Nuclear – Seventy Years of Radioactive Risks in Japan and America

Joseph Mangano, Executive Director, Radiation and Public Health Project, speaking on a new article about increases in newborn hypothyroidism.

Mary Olson, Nuclear Information and Resource Service, Southeast – Gender Matters in the Atomic Age

Cindy Folkers, Radiation and Health Specialist, Beyond Nuclear - Post-Fukushima Food Monitoring

Hiroaki Koide, Master of Nuclear Engineering, Kyoto University Research Reactor Institute (KURRI), Specialist of Radiation Safety and Control.

Dr. Helen Caldicott, Founding President Physicians for Social Responsibility – The Nuclear Age and Future Generations

TITD Inaugural Benefit Event

December 3, 2012 By in Event Tags: , , , , , , , Leave a comment

TITD Inaugural Benefit Event
HD, 4 min 19 sec

Today Is The Day Inaugural Benefit Event
November 27th 2012
@ The Jane Ballroom, NYC

The Jane Hotel Ballroom hosted the launch of TODAY IS THE DAY Foundation with a live auction, performances, cocktails and special creations by the chefs at NI.

A portion of the proceeds will go to benefit children at risk of developing thyroid cancer from exposure to radiation from the ongoing Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. Forty to fifty percent of children in Fukushima have already been diagnosed with thyroid abnormality since the beginning of the disaster.

TODAY IS THE DAY Benefit Auction was hosted online by Paddle8.

TODAY IS THE DAY is a sponsored project of Fractured Atlas, a non-profit arts service organization. Contributions for the purposes of TODAY IS THE DAY must be made payable to Fractured Atlas and are tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law.

Proceeds from TODAY IS THE DAY benefit auction, ticket sales and all other financial support will be eligible for tax exemption through the Fiscal Sponsorship of Fractured Atlas a 501(c) non-profit arts organization in New York.

For sponsorship and partnership opportunities,
contact - todayisthedayfoundation@earthlink.net

More info.

2012 Copy Rights, East River Films Inc

Report on the “Learn from Chernobyl” tour in Japan

November 25, 2012 By in Event, Media Library Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , 9 Comments

Ms. Kazuko Kawai, Founder of Voices for Lively Spring
HD, 30 min 26 sec, in English with Japanese subtitles

~How to protect the right to health and life of citizens from radiological contamination after the nuclear accident in Fukushima?~

Ms. Mari INOUE, Esq., Human Rights Now New York
HD, 22 min 14 sec, in English

Special Rapporteur, Mr. Anand Grover Press Conference in Tokyo, November 26th 2012

12 min 47 sec, in English with Japanese Subtitles (from OurPlanet-TV)


WHAT: A Japan-based human rights organization and a grass-root organization will speak about how the lives and health of local citizens were affected by the nuclear accident in Fukushima. They will discuss current issues and concerns regarding the healthcare system as well as health exams that are provided to children in affected areas, and how civil societies could support and protect right to health and life of citizens from radiological contamination after a nuclear disaster. A Q&A session will follow after presentations.

WHERE: Bahai International Community United Nations Office
866 United Nations Plaza, Suite 120, New York, NY 10017

WHEN: Friday, November 16, 2012, 12-2PM
WHO: Ms. Kazko Kawai, Voices for Lively Spring, Japan; Mari Inoue, Esq., Human Rights Now.

BACKGROUND: After the nuclear disaster in Fukushima in March 2011, local communities in Japan continue to be exposed to radioactivity. Many citizens still live in areas where the radiation level is dangerously high. The Japanese government continues to keep its citizens in harms’ way by applying a 20mSv per year standard to establish evacuation zone. There are serious concerns on children’s health in affected areas. However, sufficient health investigation or health exams are not conducted in contaminated areas, and the right of access to medical treatment as well as the right to know about one’s own body has been seriously denied.

SPONSORING ORGANIZATION:
HUMAN RIGHTS NOW: Human Rights Now (HRN) is an international NGO with consultative status with the ECOSOC, and is based in Tokyo with more than 700 members, composed of lawyers, scholars and journalists. HRN dedicates itself to the protection and promotion of human rights. In July 2011, on behalf of a coalition of civil society groups in Japan, Human Rights Now requested the Office of United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) for Special Rapporteurs to investigate human rights situations after the disaster. In response to the request, the Special Rapporteur on the rights to the highest attainable standard of health (right to health) will be on a country mission to Japan from 15 to 26 November 2012. To raise awareness of the situation in Fukushima after the nuclear accident, HRN NY organized a human rights forum, seminars and press conference to inform the international community about the ongoing crisis. Our goal is to advocate for the protection of local citizens in underrepresented communities in Japan.

IN COOPERATION WITH:
VOICES FOR LIVELY SPRING: Founded in December 2011, Voices for Lively Spring is a Japanese advocacy group for safe environment, working to save lives of Japanese people in the post-Fukushima era. It hosts seminars by renown scientists and journalists in cities in Japan, and sends instructors to local study groups to teach radiation protection seminars in Shizuoka Prefecture. In August 2012, the organization sponsored health forums on effects associated with radiological contamination, and hosted health consultations in five cities across Japan with local Japanese medical doctors in cooperation with medical doctors representing the Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR) and the German affiliate of the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW).

To stop burning of radioactive disaster debris PETITION

2012 Copy Rights, East River Films Inc

Today Is The Day Foundation

November 19, 2012 By in Event Tags: , Leave a comment

Noritoshi Hirakawa Interview

HD, 12 min 46 sec, in English


TODAY IS THE DAY is a visionary foundation based in Hiroshima Japan. It’s goal will be to reveal consciousness as the starting point of every person’s awareness. Through its activities using the forms of art, music, dance, performance, lecture, video, film, and workshop, the foundation will pursue its purpose: to inspire an art of free will and autonomy.

It will channel awareness into asking questions and building visions. Those visions will reveal a new system of personal and collective thoughts and actions, which will gradually counteract phenomena currently damaging the quality of life on earth. The foundation works from a belief that it is the artist’s calling to inspire a revival of the life-enhancing dynamisim of consciousnes.

The Foundation’s purpose, in addition, is to create and put into practice an ontological vision that transcends the structures and workings of existing systems. This follows from a belief that it is in art’s nature to explore the function of free will and to transcend contrivance in order to construct a social model that allows human existence to stand on its own.

 

Filmed & Edited by East River Films, Inc
@ Hotel Americano, NYC

Why Can’t They Relocate? Fukushima’s Dilemma

October 22, 2012 By in Event Tags: , , , , , 1 Comment

~Why Can’t They Relocate? Fukushima’s Dilemma~

What are the political, social, cultural, and financial factors that keep many families remain in Fukushima after the nuclear accident in 2011?

Kazumi WATANABE / Mammy Z Tummy Project For Fukushima

Rachel Clark / Interpreter 

HD, 25 min 39 sec, in Japanese with English Interpretation

Q & A 1/2

Kazumi WATANABE / Mammy Z Tummy Project For Fukushima
Rachel Clark / Interpreter
Mari INOUE, Esq. /  Human Rights Now New York

HD, 30 min 55 sec, in Japanese with English Interpretation

Q & A 2/2

HD, 26 min 43 sec, in Japanese with English Interpretation

Mari Inoue, Esq., Human Rights Now
HD, 6 min 58 sec, in English

Satoshi NISHIDA, Esq., Human Rights Now New York

HD, 3 min 26 sec, in English

  • WHAT:     Attorneys of a Tokyo-based international human rights organization and a founder of a temporary rescue facility for Fukushima families and children with disability or illness will speak about how the lives of local citizens were affected by the ongoing nuclear crisis in Fukushima. They will analyze how political, social, cultural and financial factors played important roles in keeping many families in contaminated areas in Fukushima, and discuss how civil societies could support and protect citizens in affected areas after a nuclear disaster. A short film of “recreation projects” in Japan – grassroots projects to provide short-term recreation opportunities in less contaminated areas for families with children to reduce accumulated dosage of radiation – will be shown. A discussion session with audience will follow after presentations.
  • WHERE:     ING Direct Café at 968 3rd Avenue (58th St.), 2nd Fl, NY, NY 10155‎
  • WHEN:     Friday, October 26, 2012, 7PM-9PM.
  • WHO:     Ms. Kazumi Watanabe, Mammy z Tummy Project for Fukushima, Japan; Satoshi Nishida, Esq., Human Rights Now; Mari Inoue, Esq., Human Rights Now.
  • BACKGROUND:     A year and a half after the nuclear disaster in Fukushima, there are still many families with children who live in highly contaminated areas for various reasons even if they are concerned about the health effects from radiation exposure. Many citizens are struggling financially and unable to relocate to outside of Fukushima without a proper assistance from the government. Fukushima families’ unique ties with neighbors, relatives and friends in their communities sometimes prevent them to evacuate from contaminated areas. Some families with members who have a disability or chronic illness do not have capacity to relocate to a new community. In order to assist those families from highly contaminated areas in Fukushima, many Japanese nonprofit organizations and grassroots organizations established “hoyo projects” or recreation projects to provide them with temporary group homes, so that their children could enjoy short-term recreation opportunities in less contaminated areas while reducing their accumulated dosage of radiation. However, these projects are now facing challenges.
  • SPONSORING ORGANIZATION:  HUMAN RIGHTS NOW:     Human Rights Now (HRN) is an international NGO based in Tokyo with more than 700 members, composed of lawyers, scholars and journalists. HRN dedicates itself to the protection and promotion of human rights. To raise awareness of the situation in Fukushima after the nuclear accident, HRN organized a human rights forum in March 2012 at the UN Church Center in conjunction with the 56th United Nations Commission on the Status of Women. Mothers and children who were evacuated from Fukushima spoke about the great and ongoing disruption of their lives. Our goal is to inform the international community about the ongoing crisis and advocate for the protection of communities in Japan.
  • IN COOPERATION WITH:  MAMMY Z TUMMY PROJECT FOR FUKUSHIMA: Mammy z Tummy for Fukushima is a grassroots organization established in 2011 after the nuclear accident in Fukushima.  The organization provides a temporary rescue facility in a relatively less contaminated area in Fukushima to support families who are unable to evacuate or participate in recreation projects outside of Fukushima due to their children’s disability or illness.

Sharing Personal Stories: Atomic Bomb Survivors Meet Harry Truman’s Grandson

October 15, 2012 By in Event, Lecture Tags: , , , , , , 3 Comments

Japan Society presents

“Sharing Personal Stories: Atomic Bomb Survivors Meet Harry Truman’s Grandson”

Wednesday, October 17, 12 PM

More than 67 years have passed since President Harry S. Truman authorized the use of the atomic bomb against Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Two survivors, Ms. Setsuko Thurlow and Mr. Yasuaki Yamashita, share their reflections, remembrances and personal testimonies with Truman’s grandson, Mr. Clifton Truman Daniel and Peace Boat Executive Committee Member Mr. Akira Kawasaki. Mr. Daniel will recount his own journey toward understanding this event, including encounters with survivors during a recent trip to Hiroshima and Nagasaki, while Mr. Kawasaki will introduce the work that Peace Boat has been doing to help survivors share their stories worldwide. Middle and high school student groups are invited to hear these eyewitness accounts and reflect on the events that shape their own personal narratives.

The program is co-sponsored by Hibakusha Stories, an initiative of Youth Arts New York, and is offered in cooperation with Peace Boat. 

Mr. Robert Croonquist Opening Remark

HD, 12 min 44 sec, in English

Q & A Session with NYC High School Students

HD, 32 min 52 sec, in English

Setsuko Thurlow Testimony

HD, 13 min 5 sec, in English

ABOUT SPEAKER

Ms. Setsuko Thurlow:

As a 13-year old schoolgirl, Setsuko Thurlow found herself in close proximity to the hypocenter of the atomic blast that rocked Hiroshima.  A survivor of one of the most pivotal events in modern history, she shares her experiences in order to sensitize us to the consequences of armed conflict on civilian populations and to promote lasting peace.  She joined forces with the mayors of Toronto, Hiroshima, and Nagasaki to establish the Peace Garden in Toronto.  Over the years, she has served with a number of organizations, including Voices of Women, the Canadian Council of Churches and the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, à Canadian Pugwash Group and Toronto Hiroshima Day Coalition, continuing her journey from victim to activist.  On October 26, 2007, she received the Order of Canada Citation in Toronto, Ontario.

Yasuaki YAMASHITA Testimony

HD, 8 min 56 sec, in English

ABOUT SPEAKER

Mr. Yasuaki YAMASHITA

When the A-Bomb fell on Nagasaki, August 9, 1945, Yasuaki Yamashita was 6 years old.  An artist and ceramicist, he moved to Mexico in 1968, where he has accepted many invitations to speak about his A-Bomb experience.  These have included schools, universities, cultural centers, a committee of the Mexican Senate, and the San Diego Museum of Photographic Arts.  In 2010 he gave his testimony at a memorial ceremony organized by the Mexico City Government on the occasion of the 65th Anniversary of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki Atomic Bombs.  He feels that it is important to keep alive the memory of the suffering, devastation, and death that nuclear weapons can cause in the hope that no one will ever use them again.

Clifton Truman Daniel Testimony

HD, 5 min 48 sec, in English

ABOUT SPEAKER

Mr. Clifton Truman Daniel:

Clifton Truman Daniel is the oldest grandson of 33rd US President Harry S. Truman and the honorary chairman of the Truman Library Institute in Independence, MO.  A former journalist and public relations executive, Mr. Daniel is the author of two books on his grandparents, Growing Up With Grandfather: Memories of Harry S. Truman (Birch Lane Press, 1995) and Dear Harry, Love Bess: Bess Truman’s Letters to Harry Truman, 1919-1943 (Truman State University Press, 2011).  He is currently at work on a book on the survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

2012 Copy Rights, East River Films Inc

Fukushima Mother Testimony in NYC

June 27, 2012 By in Event, Media Library, protest Tags: , , , , , Leave a comment

Abolition 2000 NY Metro Presents a “Special Report Back from Rio+ 20 and Fukushima”

June 21st 2012, in NYC

SD, 37min 34secs, in Japanese with English Interpretation

“I grew up with financial benefits from Nuclear Power,” says Takako Shishido. She and her family of four fled to the northernmost island of Hokkaido from Fukushima to escape from the radioactive contamination caused by the Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Disaster that began last March. Like many others, her family receives little to no financial support from the government.

Speaker Bio, Takako Shishido:
Born in 1972 in Tomioka, the hosting town of Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant. At the time of the disaster, she was living in the city of Date, 50km north-west of the stricken plant. Although she was outside of the exclusion zone set by the state, she decided to voluntarily relocate to Hokkaido with her two children in June 2011. Since her husband joined them two months later, the Shishido’s are rebuilding their lives in the new environment. Shishido has also been raising voices both as a former local member of nuclear town, and as a voluntary evacuee from Fukushima. She has spoken as a witness for the national diet hearing. She currently organizes a Sapporo-based community group of evacuees who fled from radiation.

Videographed & Edited by East River Films Inc, Cinema Forum Fukushima

Special Interview with Dr. Cynthia Miller on the Hibakusha Stories posted!

May 21, 2012 By in Event, Media Library Tags: , Leave a comment

* May 15th(Tue): Special Interview with Dr. Cynthia Miller in Manhattan, New York

 SD, 33min 39sec, in English

Dr. Cynthia Miller has become Hibakusha Stories first American-born Fellow.  She is an artist, photographer and survivor of radiation and plutonium poisoning whose vision is to advance planetary peace. Her father worked as an engineer alongside Dr. Robert Oppenheimer on the Manhattan Project (the project that envisioned and created the atom bomb) and he was eyewitness to the explosions of 131 atomic and hydrogen bombs. Reconciling bombs, atomic radiation, nuclear fallout, and war has been Dr. Miller’s life-long focus.  Dr. Miller’s story is about the effects of radioactive isotopes at all levels of production and deployment.  Please visit Radiance Project website to learn more about her and her work.

NRC Public Hearing on Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant / 45 Voices Archive Footage

May 19, 2012 By in Event Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , 3 Comments

“Last 5 Voices”

SD, 18min 17sec, in English


“Fourth 10 Voices”

SD, 24min 14sec, in English with some English subtitles

“Third 10 Voices”

SD, 29min 59sec, in English

“Second 10 Voices”

SD, 28min 47sec, in English

“First 10 Voices”

SD, 21min 43sec, in English

MN No. 12-019

U.S. NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION REGION I NOTICE OF PUBLIC MEETING

Licensee: Entergy Nuclear Operations, Inc.

Facilities: Indian Point Units 2 and 3

Docket Nos: 50-247 and 50-286

Date/Time: May 17, 2012, 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.

Location: DoubleTree Hotel: 455 South Broadway, Tarrytown, NY

Purpose: The U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) will host an open house and public meeting to discuss the NRC’s assessment of safety performance at Indian Point Units 2 & 3 for 2011, as described in the NRC annual assessment letter dated March 5, 2012. NRC staff will be available to answer questions on our role in ensuring safe plant operation.

NRC Attendees:

William M. Dean, Regional Administrator, Region I / James W. Clifford, Director, Division of Reactor Projects

Mel Gray, Chief, Division of Reactor Projects, Branch 2 / Michelle P. Catts, Senior Resident Inspector, Unit 2

Paul C. Cataldo, Senior Resident Inspector, Unit 3

Public Participation: This is a Category 3 Meeting. The NRC staff will host an open house to discuss Entergy’s performance at Indian Point Units 2 & 3 during calendar year 2011. NRC staff will be available, in an informal setting, to answer questions from individuals and discuss issues or concerns related to Indian Point. In addition, the NRC will host a question and answer session in an adjacent area, during which members of the public will be able to ask questions or make statements in a public meeting. There will not be a formal NRC presentation during the public meeting.

Indian Point Energy Center (IPEC) is a three-unit nuclear power plant station located in Buchanan, New York just south of Peekskill. It sits on the east bank of the Hudson River, 38 miles north of New York City. The plant generates over 2,000 megawatts of electrical power, comprising as much as 30 percent of the electricity used in New York City and Westchester County.

*** Westchester County Indian Point Emergency Guide

Evacuation: The 2010 U.S. population within 10 miles (16 km) of Indian Point was 272,539, an increase of 17.6 percent in a decade, according to an analysis of U.S. Census data for msnbc.com. The 2010 U.S. population within 50 miles (80 km) was 17,220,895, an increase of 5.1 percent since 2000. Cities within 50 miles include New York (41 miles to city center); Newark, N.J., (39 miles); Stamford, Conn., (24 miles); Bridgeport, Conn., (40 miles).

In the wake of the 2011 Japanese nuclear accidents, columnist Peter Applebome noted in The New York Times that a fifty mile radius from Indian Point (the area which the State Department suggested Americans avoid in Japan) “includes almost all of New York City except for Staten Island; almost all of Nassau County and much of Suffolk; all of Bergen County, N.J.; all of Fairfield, Conn.”. He quotes Purdue University professor Daniel Aldrich: ““Many scholars have already argued that any evacuation plans shouldn’t be called plans, but rather ‘fantasy documents”.

What We can Do: Geiger Counter detection  is one thing we can participate easily, and post the data on the server for sharing! iPhone Geiger Counter is inexpensive and easy for users to share the data.

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