NH #732: UK’s Sellafield Leaks Orange Acid Mine Waste & Radioactive Water into Irish Sea – Marine Biologist Tim Deere-Jones + ICAN Children’s Peace Memorial

This Week’s Featured Interview:

Tim Deere-Jones is a UK-based marine biologist, researcher and consultant. He specializes in analysis of the radiation threats to our planet’s waters from a wide range of nuclear sources. Here, he explains the radioactive orange water leak from Sellafield in the UK and the harebrained proposed scheme for excavating a radioactive waste storage facility UNDER the Irish Sea.

The ICAN UPDATE: Alistair Burnett

  • With the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki only a month away, here’s Alistair Burnett of ICAN interviewing project lead Tim Wright an a new program, the Childrens Peace Memorial, commemorating those killed at Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
  • ICAN Children’s Peace Memorial video interview with one child survivor of the Hiroshima atomic bombing:

Robert “Bob” Alvarez Passing:

Robert “Bob” Alvarez

It is with great sadness that we mark the passing of Robert (Bob) Alvarez. He was one of the bedrock founders of the national movement to unmask the human and environmental carnage that resulted directly from the US production of a massive nuclear arsenal.

Bob helped found the Environmental Policy Institute in the mid-1970’s. He is an intrepid researcher, author, investigator, professor, and an unflagging resource to dozens of organizations around the nation. Bob always was an ally (and sometimes an accomplice) of grassroots efforts to hold the nuclear power and weapons establishment accountable. He and his wife Kitty Tucker worked tirelessly to reveal the story behind the killing of Karen Silkwood, and to seek justice for Karen and her family. He served for five years as a Senior Investigator for the U. S. Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs, chaired by Senator John Glenn, and as one of the Senate’s primary staff experts on the U.S. nuclear programs.

There’s so much more. We will link to the recording of an Alliance for Nuclear Responsibility/NIRS event presenting Bob Alvarez with a lifetime achievement award that took place in 2022. He will be sorely missed.

LINKS:

  • Greg Mitchell‘s latest award-winning film, The Atomic Bowl: Football at Ground Zero — and Nuclear Peril Today will start streaming via PBS and screening on PBS stations as of July 12. Last week, the companion e-book with the same title was published. Congratulations Greg!
Yes, they really did play a football game at Nagasaki barely five months after the US dropped the bomb.
  • Write Before Midnight, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists‘ writing competition, is calling for submissions of short fiction. According to their shout-out: “Submitted stories can be about any of the existential threats the Bulletin covers: nuclear weapons, climate change, biological and chemical weapons, artificial intelligence, killer robots, doomsday drone submarines, bioengineered zombies, the gray goo of nanotechnology gone wild, and so, so much more. The stories can be dystopian or utopian; pre-, post-, or non-apocalyptic. They can be optimistic as Sesame Street or dark as Edgar Allan Poe’s basement. Entries can be of any genre: high literature and potboiler noir will vie on a level playing field; scifi, fantasy, spy, detective, horror, and even romance tales will be not just allowed, but celebrated. The tales can be comic, tragic, ironic, satiric, or any kind of -ic at all, and they can be of any length—up to 7,000 words. (And not a single word more.) CLICK HERE for more information – and good luck!
  • Pathways To Peace is organizing another conference: “Nuclear Disarmament for Humanitarian Needs: Empowering Individuals and Cities” on August 4th, 2025 at 10:00 AM ET. To register, CLICK HERE.