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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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