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BEYOND NUCLEAR BULLETIN - July 16, 2015

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The Iran Deal: Our Take
While there is rightfully celebration and relief in non-proliferation circles about the deal struck with Iran on its nuclear program, stark reminders remain about the ever-present dangers of the entire uranium fuel chain. The Iran deal is a welcome triumph of diplomacy over war. And the irony of Iran's adherence to the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) while the U.S. still proposes to spend tens of billions of dollars on "refurbishing" its nuclear weapons arsenal should not be lost. But the reality remains that nuclear power programs invariably have and do lead to nuclear weapons development. The lid is never fully closed on the nuclear coffin until both nuclear power and nuclear weapons - and thereby environmentally discriminatory uranium mining as well - are abolished. It's clear that a solar program in Iran would be a far more practical compensation prize for the renunciation of nuclear weapons than a nuclear energy program. But that's not what the flawed NPT is about.
MORE: [ http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015 ... an-us.html ]

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Witnessing Fukushima mutations, remembering Three Mile Island
The clinical evidence concludes that exposure to radioactivity increases the risk of not only contracting cancer and a host of diseases but also genetic mutations and birth defects. But beyond the clinical findings, we continue to witness the persistent, irreversible consequences of uncontrolled radioactive releases from nuclear accidents from Three Mile Island to Fukushima.
MORE: [ http://www.beyondnuclear.org/japan/2015 ... sland.html ]

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Resistance commemorates dark Atomic Age anniversaries in New Mexico
July 16 marks 70 years since "Trinity," the world's first atom bomb explosion, at Alamogordo -- the Manhattan Project "test" for Nagasaki, to follow three weeks later. And it's 36 years since one of the worst (and least known) radioactivity disasters in U.S. history, the massive uranium tailings dam release at Church Rock. Ninety million gallons of liquid radioactive waste, and eleven hundred tons of solid mill wastes, spilled into the Rio Puerco River, vital source of drinking and livestock water for Navajo communities downstream. But resistance to nuclear weapons and power remains strong: a successful "Radiation Monitoring Project" fundraiser will supply detectors to Diné No Nukes, for use in uranium mining/milling contaminated areas; and decades-long watch-dogging work of Beyond Nuclear's Alliance for Nuclear Accountability coalition partners CCNS, Nuke Watch NM, and SRIC continues.
MORE: [ http://www.beyondnuclear.org/nuclear-we ... n-new.html ]

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