Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR) today cited gross inadequacies in evacuation zones around nuclear reactors and underscored the ongoing health risks of nuclear energy to the public.

PSR board member and past president Dr. Jeff Patterson discusses the 25th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster. Click above to watch the video.

PSR held a press conference on the ongoing impact of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster to public health 25 years after the accident, the continuing nuclear catastrophe in Fukushima, Japan, and the lessons from both for U.S. public health and safety. Click above to watch the video.

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Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR) today cited gross inadequacies in evacuation zones around nuclear reactors and underscored the ongoing health risks of nuclear energy to the public.

PSR physician experts gathered at the National Press Club on April 26 -- the 25th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear accident -- to draw comparisons between Chernobyl and the ongoing Fukushima nuclear crisis, and to issue a warning about the inadequacies of emergency preparedness, in the event of such an accident in the United States.

An op-ed co-authored by PSR Los Angeles board member Dr. Robert Dodge.

An op-ed coauthored by Oregon PSR executive director Kelly Campbell on a proposed water treatment plant in Portland.

"The actual faults underlying the Indian Point plant are more likely to produce a [magnitude 6] earthquake according to L-D Earth Observatory," said Dr. Andrew Kanter, president-elect of Physicians for Social Responsibility, which has campaigned to close Indian Point.

Pam Kleiss, executive director of Wisconsin PSR, says, “The radioactive waste produced by nuclear reactors remains toxic for tens of thousands of years, much longer than any corporation, Exelon included, could possibly guarantee public and environmental safety.”

An op-ed by Dr. Robert Dodge, board member of PSR-Los Angeles.

An interview with PSR board member Dr. Ira Helfand on the nuclear crisis in Japan and the health impacts of radiation.

In accepting her award, Tova championed the students attending the conference to get up, get out and speak about preventing what we cannot cure. She spoke of our personal responsibility to our future and our children’s future and the unique role physicians have in our society and urged the students: “Don’t be afraid to think big!”

As the number of coal fired power plants worldwide has increased, so too has the demand for coal. A coal export facility has been proposed for Longview, Washington, and health experts and environmentalists are expressing grave concern.

Ira Helfand, an emergency physician from Northampton, Massachusetts, has been writing and speaking about the medical consequences of nuclear war on behalf of IPPNW and its US affiliate, Physicians for Social Responsibility, since the 1980s.

An op-ed by Kate Etherington, executive director of PSR Philadelphia.

Op-ed by Kate Etherington of PSR Philadelphia on the importance of preserving the Clean Air Act.

Colorado PSR Board Member Bob Kinsey speaks out against a proposed nuclear plant in Pueblo County. Area residents do not want commissioners to rezone land in the eastern county as a possible site.

An op-ed by Dr. Ira Helfand, PSR board member and past president, on the health hazards of radiation.

Pam Kleiss discusses the safety issues surrounding nuclear reactors.