The Nuclear Industrial Complex: How Its Price, Pollution, and Proliferation Threaten Public Health

Time: 6:30 pm
Location: UCLA Faculty Center

The nuclear industrial complex provides a combination of nuclear weapons and nuclear power that are tied together in a hand and glove relationship. Through the incalculable costs of production and cleanup, the devastation of catastrophic accidents, leakage along the fuel cycle, and the long lived contamination of spent fuel, our very civilization is threatened. In addition, recent data shows that even a limited nuclear war would be utterly catastrophic, creating a mini nuclear winter in which hundreds of millions would starve to death. The nuclear industry’s hallmarks of secrecy, cover’up and minimization make PSR’s role in educating the world about these facts ever more pressing. This discussion will review these risks and elucidate PSR’s role as we celebrate our 50th anniversary.

RSVP to Bennett Ramberg by October 19, 11am with your selection of $33 dinner/$38 dinner with dessert. Please bring your check payable to “Michael Intriligator,” your UCLA host. Parking is available at Structure 2, near the Faculty Center, at the corner of Hilgard and Westholme. Parking fee is $10.