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SAPL “Nuclear Dangers” Film Series-The next free film to be shown in the Seacoast Anti-Pollution League series:“Knocking on The Devil’s Door – Our Deadly Nuclear Legacy”

The complete film schedule and details can be viewed at the SAPL website www.saplnh.org 

There were Three Major Unanswered Questions About Nuclear Power in the 1950’s:


1. Can we guarantee that there will not be a major accident and a meltdown of a reactor ?

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    2. Is there a guarantee that

     the low level  radiations that come
     out of these reactors are harmless ?

3. Do we have a way to deal
     with deadly nuclear waste ?


The answer to these three questions
is still “NO”

Come to the free film showing and
learn about the following:

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Corruption within the nuclear industry; major corporations
convicted of fraud and other illegal acts, but continue to be allowed to receive taxpayer subsidy guarantees to build new nuclear facilities

The truth about the health effects upon people caused by the radiation releases from the accidents at Three-Mile-Island, Chernobyl, and Fukushima.

The continuing worldwide threat posed by the radioactive spent
fuel pools at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plants

The present availability of alternative energy technologies
to replace much of the installed nuclear base in the world

The conspiracy to suppress evidence of the dangers of nuclear radiation and the effects of the major nuclear accidents that have happened so far

The fallacy of a “clean” nuclear industry poised to save us
from global warming

Corporate media lies about the nuclear industry, nuclear
plant safety, and the harmlessness of nuclear radiation

The fact that the nuclear industry has spent close to $100 Billion
on nuclear plants that have never operated for a single day.

The biological effects of different types of radiation

Depleted Uranium dust from Desert Storm 1 that is causing
childhood cancers, infertility and gross fetal deformities

The nuclear power-nuclear weapons connection

The nuclear threat to all life on this planet

The Nuclearization and weaponization of outer space

The fact that Hopelessness in the population is viewed as a
corporate asset

The nuclearization of our Democracy

The fallacy of our “Atoms for Peace” program

The “Nuclear Pinocchios” of the media industry

The public impact of activist opposition on the nuclear
industry

The nuclear industry isn’t even built on the crumbling
concrete such as is found at the Seabrook “nuke”; it is built upon lies.

These are some of the experts interviewed in the film:


Dr. Michio Kaku, Professor of Nuclear Physics, CUNY

Ernest J. Sternglass, Ph.D, Professor Emeritus – University of Pittsburgh, Director of the Radiation and Public Health Project

Dr. Helen Caldicott, Pediatrician & Founding President
of the Nuclear Policy Research Institute

Harvey Wasserman, Activist and Author of Solartopia! Our
Green-Powered Earth

Dr. Vandana Shiva, Nuclear Physicist

Dr. Alexey Yablokov; his study determined that almost 1
million people have died as a result of the Chernobyl accident

Greg Palast, Investigative Reporter of Corporate Crimes
& Racketeering in the nuclear industry

Kevin Kamps, Radioactive Waste Specialist, Beyond Nuclear

Aileen Mioko Smith, Exec. Dir. Green Action “Japan”

Karl Grossman, Author and Journalism Professor, SUNY

Ryan Alexander, President – Taxpayers for Common Sense

Joseph Mangano, National Coordinator – Radiation and Public
Health Project

Dr. Janet Sherman, MD – Chernobyl Toxicologist, Radiation
and Public Health Project

Cindy Folkers, Radiation & Health Specialist – Beyond Nuclear

Dr. Alice Stewart, whose studies in the 1950’s, discovered
that medical X-Rays of pregnant women were a cause of childhood Leukemia

Dr. Chris Busby, European Committee of Radiation Risks

William “Trey” Taylor, President Verdant Power, Marine
Renewable Energy

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