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JUNE NIGHT WITH THE EXPERTS: Why Are We Still Going Nuclear? -- with Alfred Meyer
2023-06-29 19:00 - 21:00 UTC | on ZOOM
You’re Invited to
A Night with the Experts
Featuring:
Alfred Meyer
Social Activist
Speaking on
Why Are We Still Going Nuclear?
Thursday, June 29, 2023
7pm Central Time (8pm ET, 6pm MT, 5pm PT) UTC -5
Registration for the Zoom Link is required: click here
After 78 years under the mushroom cloud threat of nuclear weapons to end human life on earth, the United States of America, which now spends more on annual military expenditures than the combined expenditures of the next eight world militaries combined, still maintains nuclear weapons as the dominant centerpiece of our national “security” strategy.
Does this really make us safe and secure? Or would joining the Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) provide greater security and safety?
The vast military/industrial/academic/congressional infrastructure needed for the nuclear enterprise to continue developing and producing new nuclear weapons and reactors for the nuclear Navy is driving the current international nuclear arms race. Civilian nuclear power is an “essential enabler” of U.S. nuclear weapons and our nuclear-powered navy.
If we want to eliminate the existential threats posed by the nuclear enterprise, we need to understand the fundamental drivers behind it, currently being expressed by the well-coordinated promotion of Small Modular Nuclear Reactors. This understanding is essential for influencing the trajectory of new nuclear development—our future hangs in the balance.
Alfred Meyer is a social activist who has worked with a number of non-profit organizations addressing various aspects of the nuclear enterprise and its threats to life on earth. They include Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR) in Wisconsin, Washington DC, and New York, the Alliance for Nuclear Accountability and Peace Action in Washington DC, the Manhattan Project for a Nuclear Free World in New York City and Friends of Chernobyl Centers United States in Madison, Wisconsin.
More recently, Mr. Meyer has written several articles for The Progressive magazine:
It’s All About the Bomb
‘F’ Is for Failure

Save the Date: NEIS 2023 Annual Meeting June 11th
2023-06-11 15:00 UTC | on ZOOM
Save the Date!

We invite members in good standing to our
NEIS 2023 ANNUAL MEETING
Sunday, June 11, 3:00 PM CT
via Zoom

We invite you to our 2023 Annual Meeting, held once again on ZOOM. It’s open to NEIS members in good standing and their guests. If your membership has lapsed, please renew before the Meeting. If you’re not a member, consider joining (suggested $30 per year).
Registration for the Annual Meeting is required.
We have much to talk about, lots to share, and some great plans for the coming year!
For our Special Program, we’re excited to show the documentary, Atomic Bamboozle, followed by a discussion with the film producer, Janice Haaken.

May Night with the Experts featuring -- Arnie Gundersen speaking "Hot Particles" and more
2023-05-25 19:00 - 21:00 UTC | on ZOOM
Our friend and colleague the celebrated Arnie Gundersen will join us for the May monthly NWTE program, speaking about “hot particles” at contaminated sites — like Fukushima and the Zion NPP in Illinois
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May Meme the Media
2023-05-22 19:00 - 20:30 UTC | on ZOOM
Hi there,
You are invited to a Zoom meeting.
When: May 22, 2023 07:00 PM Central Time (US and Canada)
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MEME THE MEDIA -- an action meeting (registration required)
2022-09-26 19:00 - 20:30 UTC | on ZOOM
NEIS announces the official roll-out of the “Meme the Media” project — the last Monday of each month, which will become the permanent day for future sessions.
The purpose of MtM is for the safe-energy/anti-nuclear movement to reclaim the media messaging on nuclear issues. We will put out OUR memes, in OUR language; and we will confront greenwashing, linguistic detoxification, and other glaring media misrepresentations of nuclear power in the media of all forms — MSM, online, social media (Facebook, Twitter, TikTok etc.), YouTube comments, etc.
Sessions will be conducted on ZOOM, and will occur on the last Monday of each month at 7 p.m. Central time. You will be required to REGISTER for each session using this link.
At each session, we will:

target 1 or 2 current egregious media misrepresentations found in print or electronic media that need “correcting”
in small groups using “breakout rooms”, we will develop short, pithy, informative responses/corrections/critiques of the identified media targets.
back in the full group, we will review these, and then post/send them immediately to the targeted media source
NEIS will provide the following:

1-2 media “targets” or time-sensitive issues needing to be addressed; alternatively — you can come with one you have seen in the media that you want to address (you will need to research and bring with you all the contact links and information if you choose this option)
information on the ways to contact that media source (e.g., criteria for letters-to-the-editors; links to “comments” sections, let-eds, e-mails of reporters, etc.)
short, bullet-point phrases and alternative memes on the identified issue/target that you can use; or, to be modified in your own language in your small working group

The sessions will follow this format:

presentation of the selected topic — a short briefing on the issue, and then identification of the media target(s) for the evening
break out sessions of 2-3 individuals, tasked with writing up the response(s)
reassemble to go over the draft products as a group, make corrections, take suggestions for re-writes
send the responses IMMEDIATELY

If you are sick and tired of nuclear being described as “clean, green and emissions-free,” or Jennifer Granholm running around the country gushing about the need for small modular nuclear reactors, or Bill Gates’ new whizz-bang reactor that eats radioactive waste while whitening your teeth — then THIS project is for you! As the old activist saying goes: Don’t get angry. Get EVEN!

NEIS ACTION ALERT Major actions next two weeks -- you’re invited for COVID-safe participation!
2021-01-21 08:00 - 17:00 UTC
NEIS ACTION ALERT
Major actions next two weeks — you’re invited for COVID-safe participation!
Greetings All –
This week, on Friday January 22, the international Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) goes into LEGALLY BINDING effect that prohibits the use, manufacture, possession and sharing of nuclear weapons. This is a major international milestone in ending our march towards Armageddon.
To mark this historic moment, NEIS invites you to a series of events and actions:
TPNW Webinar, and Nukes Banned!-Car Caravan for Peace:

ZOOM Panel of Experts, Thursday, January 21, 6 p.m. CTZ; ZOOM registration link here

Join this group of nuclear weapons experts on Zoom to learn more about the significance of the Ban Treaty entering into force, and what the United States can do to move toward nuclear weapons abolition.

Panelists include:

LauraGrego,PhD, Senior Scientist, Global Security Program, Union of Concerned Scientists
TaraDrozdenko, PhD, Acting Executive Director, Outrider Foundation
Doug Shaw,PhD, Consultant, Nuclear Disarmament and Pentagon Spending, Friends Committee on National Legislation
Panel moderator: Rachel Bronson, PhD, President and CEO, Bulletin of Atomic Scientists

Nukes Banned! Car Caravan for Peace, Friday, January 22, 12 noon- 1:00 p.m., car caravan for peace circles Federal Plaza in Chicago (Clark and Dearborn Streets, downtown Chicago).
Volunteer drivers are needed for the car caravan. 100% COVID-safe, since no one will have to leave their cars. Rendezvous to get signage at 11 a.m. Ten more drivers needed!
Sign-up for the caravan (details will be sent to you after you register)
Facebook event

Night with the Experts: The Weapons/Reactor Connections:
The next installment of this increasingly popular monthly series will connect the dots that exist between the so-called “Peaceful Atom” and nuclear weapons:
Nuclear Power and Weapons – The Connections
Thursday, January 28, 2021, 7 p.m. CTZ
ZOOM link: click here to join the session (use a computer with camera and microphone for best experience. You do not need to have ZOOM installed on your device to participate.)
Dr. Arjun Makhijani
Director, Institute for Energy and Environmental Research (IEER), Takoma Park, MD.
On January 22, the International Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons will come into full force, having been ratified now by 51 parties of the 86 sovereign signatories to the treaty. This is the most important international agreement on nuclear weapons since the Non -Proliferation Treaty came into force in 1970, a treaty that the United States was instrumental in bringing to fruition. What people and governments constantly overlook is that nuclear weapons programs often come from nuclear power programs around the world – linking the two inextricably.
Dr. Makhijani is an engineer, physicist and noted national energy expert. He is author of the 2007 book, Carbon Free – Nuclear Free: A Roadmap for U.S. Energy Policy (available in PDF online here), which predates the Green New Deal in any form by nearly a decade. The Renewable Maryland Project updates this work comprehensively, including all aspects of the energy transition from hour-by-hour modeling to energy equity and a just transition for fossil fuel workers. He has written extensively on the issues of disarmament and nonproliferation.

NEIS “Night with the Experts” Returns! -- Nuclear Power as an Environmental Justice Issue
2020-08-27 07:00 - 21:00 UTC
NEIS would like to invite you to the second installment of our newly reconstituted online program — Night with the Experts.
In August our selected expert will discuss:
Nuclear Power as an Environmental Justice Issue
Thursday, August 27, 7 p.m.
ZOOM link: click here to join the session (use a computer with camera and microphone for best experience)
Our guest expert this month is Diné activist :
Leona Morgan
Director, Diné No Nukes
Nuclear Issues Study Group, based at Univ. of New Mexico

Leona has long-standing expertise and firsthand experience with uranium mining issues on Indigenous lands worldwide; has presented on Indigenous rights issues at COP-24; and is the co-founder of the Radiation Monitoring Project, providing radiation monitors and professional training on their use to frontline contaminated communities. She is currently involved in a national organizing effort to prevent the construction “centralized interim storage” dumps for high-level radioactive wastes in southeast New Mexico and West Texas. Indigenous lands and impoverished tribes are routinely targeted by the U.S. Dept. of Energy and the nuclear industry to serve as dump communities for this deadly waste. The Diné Reservation in New Mexico is also the site of the largest human-made spill of radioactive material in the history of North America, the Church Rock mill tailings spill into the Puerco River, July 16, 1979.
How “Night with the Experts” Works:
With most webinars, especially online, speakers talk for the majority of the time, often leaving little time for detailed questions or genuine discussion. With NWTE, we reverse that format. The guest expert(s) will be given about 10 minutes to introduce their information on the topic. Then, the remainder of the time will be given to the watching/listening participants to ask questions and engage in moderated discussion. Participants will indicate in the ZOOM “Chat Box” their wish to speak or ask a question, and will be acknowledged in the order received.
NEIS will conduct the series at 7 p.m. on the last Thursday of each month, so mark your calendar. Next Up: “Nuclear Power in a COVID World,” our experts TBD; Thursday, September 24th, 7 p.m. Central TZ. Hope to see you at both of these events!

Movie Night: "Power Struggle"
2020-03-13 19:00 - 21:00 UTC | Unitarian Church of Naperville, 828 Old Naperville Rd, Naperville, IL, 60563
Movie and discussion. Unitarian Church of Naperville.

"Run for Your Life" Fukushima Anniversary Protest
2020-03-11 11:00 - 13:00 UTC | Japanese Consulate Chicago, 737 N Michigan Ave., Chicago, IL, 60611
Event protesting Radioactive Olympics & Fukushima.
Meets at Chicago Avenue east of Michigan Avenue.
Dress warm!

NEIS Board Meeting
2018-12-10 19:00 - 21:00, 2018-10-08 19:00 - 21:00, 2018-09-11 19:00 - 21:00 UTC | NEIS Office Conference Room, 3411 W. Diversey, Ste. 16, Chicago, IL, United States

“CRAZY TRAINS: A Panel on Shipping High-Level Radioactive Waste and Oil by Train”
2018-11-14 18:30 - 21:00 UTC | NEIS Office Conference Room, 3411 W. Diversey, Ste. 16, Chicago, IL, United States

Meet and Greet with Kevin Kamps, Radioactive Waste specialist with Beyond Nuclear
2018-11-12 18:30 - 21:00 UTC | NEIS Office Conference Room, 3411 W. Diversey, Ste. 16, Chicago, IL, United States

NEIS Annual Board Planning Retreat
2018-11-11 09:00 - 17:00 UTC | NEIS Office Conference Room, 3411 W. Diversey, Ste. 16, Chicago, IL, United States

Occupy Evanston Movie Night -- "Atomic Homefront"
2018-10-25 18:30 - 21:30 UTC | Evanston Civic Center, 2100 Ridge, Evanston, 60201, United States

Movie Night- "Atomic Homefront"
2018-09-13 18:30 - 21:00 UTC | Lunt-Lake Co-op, 1138 W. Lunt (basement), Chicago, IL, 60626, United States

NEIS Info Table at Evanston Streets Alive
2018-09-09 13:00 - 17:00 UTC | South Evanston, IL, Main and Chicago, Evanston, IL, 60202, United States

People's Climate March Chicagoland - Rise for Climate, Jobs, & Justice
2018-09-08 12:30 - 17:00 UTC | O’Connor Park, 0 NE Dear Run, Elwood, IL
Part of a national day of climate action.
www.peoplesclimatemarch.org

Congressional Briefing: “Decommissioning Nuclear Power Plants: What Congress, Federal Agencies and Communities Need to Know”
2018-07-16 14:00 (America/New_York) | Congress, Room HC-8, U.S. Capitol Building, Washington, DC, United States
Live webcast will be streamed at: www.eesi.org/livecast
Contact: Dave Kraft, Director, Nuclear Energy Information Service (NEIS), (773)342-7650 (o); neis@neis.org
Amaury Laporte, Environmental and Energy Study Institute, (202) 662-1884 alaporte@eesi.org
SPEAKERS:

Mayor Al Hill, of Zion, Illinois, home of the decommissioned Zion Nuclear Power Station
Robert Alvarez, Senior Scholar, Institute for Policy Studies; former Department of Energy Senior Policy Advisor to the Secretary and Deputy Assistant Secretary for National Security and the Environment
Geoffrey H. Fettus, Senior Attorney for Energy & Transportation, Natural Resources Defense Council
Kevin Kamps, Radioactive Waste Specialist, Beyond Nuclear
Bob Musil (moderator), President and CEO of the Rachel Carson Council; former Executive Director, Physicians for Social Responsibility

WHAT:
Illinois has more reactors (14) and high-level radioactive waste (>10,000 tons) than any other state. As the Nuclear Age draws to a close and we enter the Age of Decommissioning, we find huge technical misunderstanding and regulatory inadequacies about what constitutes environmentally responsible action to dismantle these inevitably closing reactors, and deal with the radioactive waste storage, transport and disposal problems they leave as their legacy. The Illinois community of Zion has already experienced firsthand the devastating effects of decommissioning done wrong or thoughtlessly.
The Environmental and Energy Study Institute (EESI) invites you to a briefing on the urgent need to safely decommission nuclear power plants, which are increasingly shutting down. The United States is facing a significant wave of nuclear plant closures for which it is unprepared. Most of the existing U.S. reactor fleet will inevitably close over the next two decades, as plants near the ends of their operational lifespans. Decommissioning is the process of dismantling the closed plant and securing or removing radioactive waste while lowering the site’s residual radioactivity to safer levels. Getting decommissioning right is critical to communities’ health and safety, while getting it wrong could pose an existential threat.

Leading scientists, policy experts, NGO advocates, and local elected officials with experience of decommissioning will speak at the briefing. It will cover the impacts of decommissioning, current decommissioning options, waste storage vs. transport, thorny unsolved problems and best practices, financing and liability, a just transition for communities and workers, how communities and states can and can’t weigh in on these issues, and how they should inform the fast-changing legislative and regulatory landscape.

This briefing is co-sponsored by Beyond Nuclear, Ecological Options Network, Hudson River Sloop Clearwater, Indian Point Safe Energy Coalition (IPSEC), Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), Nuclear Energy Information Service (NEIS), Nuclear Resource and Information Service (NIRS), Riverkeeper, Safe Energy Rights Group, Unity for Clean Energy (U4CE), and others.
Contact Amaury Laporte at alaporte@eesi.org, (202) 662-1884
** NEIS was founded in 1981 to provide the public with credible information on the hazards of nuclear power, waste, and radiation; and information about the viable energy alternatives to nuclear power. For more information visit the NEIS website at: http://www.neis.org

NEIS Nuclear Chicago Tour
2018-06-24 13:00 - 17:00 UTC | Henry Moore Sculpture to Nuclear Power, 5625 S Ellis, Chicago, IL, 60637, United States
TENTATIVE: (check back for details)
The first of monthly planned tours of nuclear-related sites in the Chicago area.
Rendezvous at the Henry Moore Sculpture to Nuclear Energy, University of Chicago Campus, 55th and Ellis, Chicago.
Contact NEIS office to confirm (weather, etc.) : (773)342-7650

New Nuclear Dumps-Voices from Texas and New Mexico
2018-03-07 20:00 - 21:30 (America/New_York)
This session will get into the details of what’s wrong with Congress’ 2018 plans for dealing with high-level radioactive wastes, drawing on the expertise of the frontline locals who will be directly affected by these deficient plans to dump waste in poor communities, revive the flawed Yucca Mt. project, and transport up to 12,000 rail shipments of high-level radioactive wastes through our communities. (Think: “radioactive oil trains”)
We hope you will be able to attend this briefing in preps to doing battle with Congress this year.

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