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What We’re Reading – Sunday, February 28, 2016

February 28, 2016 MATTHEW CHARLES Leave a comment

To access links, pls click on full post. Judge Bars Jailing of Indigent Defendants for Misdemeanors Fulton County Daily Report (subscription) http://www.dailyreportonline.com/id=1202748489259/Judge-Bars-Jailing-of-Indigent-Defendants-for-Misdemeanors Undocumented Students Will Continue to Pay Out of State Tuition Georgia Public Broadcasting radio news http://www.gpb.org/news/2016/02/01/undocumented-students-will-continue-pay-out-of-state-tuition Atlanta Transit Needs A Serious Overhaul Curbed http://atlanta.curbed.com/archives/2016/02/03/study-atlanta-transit-needs-a-serious-overhaul.php Small Surprising Step for Big Change in Medical Coverage Georgia […]

Author of Data-Driven Book on Fukushima Disaster Visits Atlanta

February 22, 2014 COURTNEY HANSON Leave a comment

(APN) ATLANTA — Nearly three years after the disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan, Dr. Edwin Lyman, a leading expert with the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS), addressed students at Emory School of Law, as well as a large crowd at the Carter Center, on Monday, February 10, 2014, to discuss stories his new book […]

Fukushima radiation hits San Francisco?

January 11, 2014 MATTHEW CHARLES Leave a comment

Higher Levels of Radiation Found in U.S. post-Fukushima

January 11, 2014 GLORIA TATUM Leave a comment

(APN) ATLANTA — Higher levels of radiation have been found in several locations across the U.S., as a number of incidents have occurred involving what appear to be mutated animals washing up on U.S. shores, raising concerns about our environment, especially the Pacific Ocean; and the potential role of the recent nuclear disaster at the Daiichi site in Fukushima, Japan. […]

Advocates, Ratepayers Oppose Paying for Vogtle’s Cost Overruns (UPDATE 1)

August 2, 2013 GLORIA TATUM Leave a comment

(APN) ATLANTA — On July 18, 2013 the Georgia Public Service Commission (PSC) held the first of two scheduled hearings on Georgia Power’s request to pass 381 million dollars in cost overruns, in connection with the construction of two new nuclear reactors at Plant Vogtle, onto ratepayers, in the form of higher electricity bills. Georgia Power had […]

(IPS) Legal Challenges Counter Plans for New Nuclear Reactors

April 24, 2012 MATTHEW CHARLES Leave a comment

This article first appeared on the Inter-Press Service website at: http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=107557. ATLANTA, Georgia, April 24, 2012 (IPS) – Until this past February, the last time new nuclear power construction was approved in the United States was in 1978. But when the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) approved two proposed nuclear reactors at Plant Vogtle near Augusta, Georgia, on February 9 […]

Chernobyl Experts Speak in Georgia about Nuclear Risks, Disasters

March 30, 2011 CHERYL ROSENBLUM Leave a comment

(APN) ATLANTA — Last week, Wednesday, March 23, 2011, at Manuel’s Tavern, Georgia Women’s Action for New Direction (WAND), hosted Dr. Nataliya Miranova and Natalia Manzurova, for the purpose of them sharing their expertise on the risks of nuclear reactors, and the threat such reactors post to humanity. They spoke at Manuel’s and at Emory University, before heading to Chattanooga, […]