Join Us: Sept 20-22, 2012, Washington, DC
The demonstrations against nuclear power that CAN is organizing in September are powerful and imperative. I want every person – mothers, fathers, children, grandmothers and grandfathers, to make a major effort to attend one or all of these gatherings as the time for the “peaceful” atom is over. We must end it now before it ends us. – Helen Caldicott, MD
Converge with us in our nation’s capital to show our government how democracy works! Why should you join us?
The entire fuel cycle from the mining and milling of uranium to nuclear energy production,waste and use of weaponry contaminates all life forms forever.
Ongoing exposure to radioactive contaminants causes chronic and terminal conditions, such as cancer, thyroid and heart diseases, miscarriage, birth defects and genetic damage.
Did you know…? •1/3 of Americans live within 50 miles of a nuclear reactor; 23 of our 104 reactors have the same flawed design as those in Fukushima Daiichi that melted down.
•There are regular and allowable releases of radiation from nuclear power reactors despite the fact that there is no “safe” dose of radiation, only “acceptable” thresholds that our government keeps arbitrarily raising.
•Children are most vulnerable to harm from radiation and women are 50% more vulnerable than men.
•Nuclear bombs are made from fuel created from waste products in nuclear reactors. That’s why every nuclear reactor is a potential bomb factory.
•The U.S and other countries are using nuclear weapons in the form of depleted uranium reprocessed from nuclear power reactors and deployed in military conflicts around the world. There is nothing “peaceful” about nuclear energy. •
Radioactive waste is deadly for more than 240,000 years.
•Uranium mining poisons miners and families by contaminating surrounding lands, scarce water supplies and the air they breathe.
•Your homeowner’s insurance does not cover damage from nuclear accidents.
Join Us: Sept 20-22, 2012, Washington, DC
View our events schedule. http://coalitionagainstnukes.org/
