Ten years after Fukushima: The experts examine lessons learned and forgotten
By Ali Ahmad, Aditi Verma, Francesca Giovannini | March 11, 2021
A decade later, the footage of the dramatic hydrogen explosions in the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, broadcast live on television—and the subsequent disruptions to livelihoods, ecosystems, and economic activities—still reverberate.
10 years after Fukushima: Are Japanese nuclear power plants safe?
By Jun Tateno | March 10, 2021
https://thebulletin.org/2021/03/10-years-after-fukushima-are-japanese-nuclear-power-plants-safe/
Fukushima today: A first-person account from the field and the conference table
Because of Fukushima, some Japanese scientists who had been proponents of nuclear energy now oppose it.
Fukushima today: “I’m glad that I realized my mistake before I died.”
By Thomas A. Bass | March 10, 2021
After the nuclear disaster at Fukushima, evacuees were put in what was supposed to be temporary housing built in parking lots and fields on the outskirts of inland towns. These metal structures were measured by the size of Japan’s traditional tatami sleeping mats, typically about 36 by 71 inches.
https://thebulletin.org/2021/03/fukushima-today-im-glad-that-i-realized-my-mistake-before-i-died/
2021/01/24 | 13-15 h UTC+1 ZOOM WEBINAR
Military: Environment and Climate Killer
Virtual World Social Forum (WSF) 23.-31. January 2021
Military: Environment and Climate Killer
January 24th, 2021, at 13:00 – 15:00 CET (UTC+1)
Organized by Campaign Stopp Air Base Ramstein and International Network of Engineers and Scientists for Global Responsibility (INES)
Join: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81327220855?pwd=WGd0MXJNeEg4VWFQaURVK2cyaHd1dz09
Speakers:
- Claus Montonen (Finland), INES Board, University of Helsinki
- Tamara Lorincz (Canada), Canadian Voice of Women for Peace, IPB Council, No to NATO
Moderator: Karl Heinz Peil (Germany), Campaign Stopp Air Base Ramstein
Description:
This webinar will address the damages of military and military installations to nature and the environment. It will explore this issue from multiple angles and in several regions, with speakers from Europe, East Asia, and North America.
Remembering one who abhorred war – on the death of Jack Steinberger
aus Wikipedia: Jack Steinberger (am 23. Juli 2008 in Bad Kissingen) CC BY-SA 3.0
Born on 25 May 1921 in Bade Kissingen, Germany On 12 December, the physicist Jack Steinberger died at the age of 99. As a young man, he had to and was able to leave Germany during the fascist era. Persecuted again during the Mach Carthy era, he left the USA and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1988.
Jack Steinberg’s life was marked by a deep and never-ending search for scientific knowledge and truth. His commitment to passing on his knowledge to the next generations was tireless.
For him, science was inseparably linked with social and individual responsibility. Alarmed by the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, he spent a lifetime in the peace movement. His goal, which he advocated tirelessly and fearlessly, was a world without nuclear weapons and war. He abhorred war from the bottom of his heart. This commitment brought him to the International Network of Engeneers and Scientists, of which he became a founding member and long-time supporter and sponsor. He was active for and with INES until his old age.
We will miss him and his activities in the future we will have to fight alone against nuclear weapons and war for a peaceful and just world.
Reiner Braun
Video: INES-Webinar Weapons in Space – Challenges to Peace and Security
October 14, 2020 https://youtu.be/f-6FoxwfBE4
2020/12/01 zoom webinar 12-1:30pm EDT | 18-19:30pm | 2am Tokio
Missile and Nuclear Insecurity in East Asiaced
Global Peace and Insecurity: A Seminar Series
Fall 2020: Tuesdays: 12noon-1:30pm US EDT (12-13.30) | 18-19:30 CET
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 1: Missile and Nuclear Insecurity in East Asia
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2020/11/24 zoom webinar 12noon-1:30pm EDT | 18-19:30 CET
What’s next for the US-India strategic partnership?
Global Peace and Insecurity: A Seminar Series
Fall 2020: Tuesdays: 12noon-1:30pm US EDT (12-13.30)
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 24: What’s next for the US-India strategic partnership?
Dr. George Perkovich: Olivier and Nomellini Chair, vice president for studies, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, author of India’s Nuclear Bomb, co-author of Not War, Not Peace?
2020/11/17 zoom webinar 12noon-1:30pm EDT | 18-19:30 CET
Ten years After Fukushima: The Future of Nuclear Power in Japan
Global Peace and Insecurity: A Seminar Series
Fall 2020: Tuesdays: 12noon-1:30pm US EDT (12-13.30)
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 6:00PM-7:30PM EST (Please note differnt time): Ten years After Fukushima: The Future of Nuclear Power in Japan
Speaker: Jun Tateno, Ph.D., Executive Director, Nuclear and Energy-Related Information Center (NERIC), Tokyo, Japan
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2020/11/10 zoom webinar 12noon-1:30pm EDT | 18-19:30 CET
The Non-Proliferation Treaty at 50: A Mid-Life Crisis?
Global Peace and Insecurity: A Seminar Series
Fall 2020: Tuesdays: 12noon-1:30pm US EDT (12-13.30) | 18-19:30 CET
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 10: The Non-Proliferation Treaty at 50: A Mid-Life Crisis?
Speaker: Paul Meyer, Adjunct Professor, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Former Canadian Ambassador for Disarmament Continue reading →
2020/11/03 zoom webinar 12noon-1:30pm EDT | 18-19:30 CET
Climate Change and International Security
Global Peace and Insecurity: A Seminar Series
Fall 2020: Tuesdays: 12noon-1:30pm US EDT (12-13.30)
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 3: Climate Change and International Security
Jurgen Scheffran, Head of the Research Group Climate Change and Security, University of Hamburg, Germany
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2020/10/27 zoom webinar 12noon-1:30pm EDT
Biden or Trump: What’s at Stake on November 3?
Global Peace and Insecurity: A Seminar Series
Fall 2020: Tuesdays: 12noon-1:30pm US EDT (12-13.30)
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 27: Noam Chomsky, Institute Professor, MIT and Professor of Linguistics, University of Arizona
Biden or Trump: What’s at Stake on November 3?
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2020/10/20 zoom webinar 12noon-1:30pm EDT
The Bang and the Bucks: Post-9/11 Military Spending and the Shortchanging of Other
Global Peace and Insecurity: A Seminar Series
Fall 2020: Tuesdays: 12noon-1:30pm US EDT (12-13.30)
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 20: Heidi Peltier, Ph. D, Director, 20 Years of War Project, Boston University
The Bang and the Bucks: Post-9/11 Military Spending and the Shortchanging of Other Urgent Needs
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2020/10/13 zoom webinar 12noon-1:30pm EDT
Accidents, mistakes and COVID-19: Risks and Necessity of High-Level Biosafety Labs
Global Peace and Insecurity: A Seminar Series
Fall 2020: Tuesdays: 12noon-1:30pm US EDT (12-13.30)
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 13: Monica Zoppe, Ph. D., Institute of Biophysics, Italian National Research Council (CNR), Milan, Italy
Accidents, mistakes and COVID-19: Risks and Necessity of High-Level Biosafety Labs; MODERATOR: Professor Jonathan King
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2020/10/12 zoom webinar 12:00 – 17:30 CEST
Webinar: Weapons in Space – Challenges to Peace and Security
Invitation INES Webinar on Weapons in Space – Challenges to Peace and Security 12 October, 16:00 – 17:30 CEST With: Prof. Jürgen Scheffran (University of Hamburg, Germany) Prof. em. Dave Webb (Leeds Beckett University, U.K.) Subrata Ghoshroy (MIT, USA) Registration: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN__s5nreJXQQKp0p9q-bbTXw Introduction: When President Trump established the U.S. Space Force December, 2019, he said that it marked “a big moment” and that there was “going to be a lot of things happening in space. Because space is the world’s … Continue reading →