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Nuclear Arms, Fossil Fuels

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A s we come to the nalmonths o 2010, it’s ap-

propriate to pause to reect onthe success o our intense efortsthese past two years on our coreissues. When I took the reinsat PSR in early 2009, it was anexhilarating time and, in spiteo a dicult economy, we setour sights high. This year, we

had some clear wins on policiesto decrease reliance on nuclear

weapons, increase attention tocarbon pollution and change thedynamic o the discussion aboutnew nuclear reactors. At thesame time, we were challengedby the reality that lasting changeis dicult to achieve.

As we entered an increasingly tough political climate, we acedthe realities o competing prior-ities, unappealing bargains andmounting opposition. Althoughthese challenges tested our met-

tle, I’m convinced that it is justsuch times or which PSR is so

well equipped—and so needed. We have never been about theeasy win. We don’t expect prog-ress to happen overnight, and

we have never relied on a wave o popular opinion to validate ourmission. Oten, we have goneagainst the grain and pursuedour goals in spite o the odds.

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PSR and others in the nuclear dis-armament community led an in-

tense, year-long efort to educate theSenate and the public about the im-portance o the New Strategic ArmsReduction Treaty (New START). Thisnation-wide campaign culminated ina rare bipartisan vote (14–4) by the

Senate Foreign Relations Committeeon September 16th, 2010, to approvethe treaty and reer it to the ull Sen-ate or a vote. This victory representsthe most signicant advancement innuclear arms control in more than adecade, but our work is ar rom over.

PSR was on the ground with speak-er tours and organizers in Arizona,Georgia, Iowa, Indiana, Maine andTennessee. With eforts rom chap-ters, members, board members andstaf, we ensured that key senatorsheard a constant drumbeat o sup-port or New START. The successul

committee vote builds momentumand clears the way or a vote by theull Senate. Our next urgent efort:to convince the Senate to take up thisissue beore the end o the year—andto gain the 67 votes needed to ratiy the treaty.

In September, ollowing the com-mittee vote, Ira Heland, M.D., vis-ited the University o Notre Dame’sKroc Institute o Peace, or a publicdiscussion about the treaty, joinedby Col. Richard Klass, U.S. Air

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Force (ret.) o the Center or ArmsControl and Non-Prolieration,and Assistant Secretary o State RoseGottemoeller, the principal negotia-tor on New START. More speaking tours, media interviews and out-reach activities are planned or thecoming months. PSR will continueto play a special role in DC coali-tions, and in the key states o Maine,Massachusetts and Iowa.

PSR has launchedthe Environ-

mental HealthPolicy Institute, anonline think tank exploring toxics,

health, and policy through monthly topics and essaysrom environmentalhealth experts. Eachmonth, the Instituteposes a questionto a group o experts rom the eldso medicine, nursing, toxicology,environmental health science andpublic health. The resulting essays ona unied theme are posted online,

creating an archive o expert opinion andideas on toxics policy.

Kristen Welker-Hood, PSR’s directoro environment and

health, decided tolaunch the institute asshe was planning thenext phase o PSR’stoxics program andrealized that the tox-ics movement needed

a platorm that would help ampliy the health voice around these issues.“We know that people are exposed totoxic chemicals every day,” she said.

PSR’sOnlineThinkTank AmplifesPublicHealth VoicesonToxicsPolicy

Ira Helfand, M.D., at theUniversity of Notre Dame’s KrocInstitute of Peace, in September for a public discussion about the New Strategic Arms ReductionTreaty, joined by Col. Richard Klass, U.S. Air Force (ret.) of the Center for Arms Controland Non-Proliferation, and Assistant Secretary of State RoseGottemoeller, the principalnegotiator on New START.

Executive Director Peter Wilk, M.D. at theIPPNW World Congress in August. A PSRdelegation including PSR president Dr. Je Patterson, student PSR co-president Craig Levoy, and Board members Drs. Ed It,Robert Gould, Ira Helfand, Andy Kanter,Don Mellman, Maureen McCue and John Rachow, and PSR security programmanager Ashish Sinha, attended thisinspiring event in Basel, Switzerland.



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Student Physicians or Social Re-sponsibility welcomed University o South Florida medical studentCraig Levoy as new co-president orthe school year. Craig and ellow co-president Jessie Duvall, a University o Washington medical student, will

work with other leadership councilmembers including Marie Kim o theUniversity o Iowa College o Medi-cine to provide direction, training and support to chapters around thecountry working on a global, local andregional issues. The students launcheda leadership and capacity-building e-

ort in August with the roll out o thenew Medical Student Advocacy Toolkitand Guide and an online training orcampus and community organizing.

SPSR warmly thanks Dr. TovaFuller, who nished a three-yearterm as SPSR co-president in

January, or her exceptional leader-ship, energy and strategic vision,

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to Zero to generate interest in—andinspire action to address—the globalthreat posed by nuclear weapons. Ourchapters held educational events,rallies and panel presentations inconjunction with the lm’s release.Security Committee Chair and BoardMember Ira Heland, M.D., andlong-time PSR member JennierLeaning, M.D. were eatured in thelm and delivered its most sober-ing commentary. Ploughshares Fundprovided support or our organiza-tional and promotional eforts, help-ing to draw thousands to see the lm

and participate in discussions on what we can do to rid our world o theseterrible weapons.

The energy and excitement aroundCountdown to Zero led to the launch o PSR’s “1 more 4 zero” campaign, anefort to inspire people to build com-munity-wide eforts to address thisissue. Check www.1more4zero.org or contact PSR’s Manager o Security

Programs Ashish Sinha at [email protected] to nd out how you can get

involved in this broader movement.PSR/LosAngelessold out the

opening-day screening o Countdownto Zero on July 30 at the ArclightHollywood Cinema. Hundreds at-tended the screening, which wasollowed by a discussion with writerand director Lucy Walker, producerLawrence Bender and PloughsharesFundPresident Joe Cirincione.

PSR/NewYorkheld two screen-ings o Countdown to Zero, on July 23and August 5, at the Angelika FilmCentre and Empire 25 in New York City. Cathey Falvo, M.D., hosted a

panel discussion ater the premier with PSR Executive Director Peter Wilk, M.D., and PSR board members Andy Kanter, M.D., and Vic Sidel,M.D. (co-ounder o PSR).

PSR/Chicago staged a publicrally with the North Suburban PeaceInitiative eaturing activists withCountdown to Zero t-shirts, models o the bombs dropped on Japan, and

Dr. Bob Meyers o the World Security Institute. Sarah Lovinger, M.D.,

PSR/Chicago executive director, alsohosted a panel discussion on Countdownto Zero and global nuclear disarmament

with Kennette Benedict, Ph.D., edi-tor and publisher o the Bulletin of the

Atomic Scientists, and a PSR/ Nationalboard member, and PSR President

Jef Patterson, D.O.PSR/Arizona organized 200 activ-

ists or the Countdown to Zero screening in Tuscon. Each attendee was askedto sign a postcard to Senators JohnKyl (R-AZ) and John McCain (R-

AZ) urging support or New START. Actions packets which included PSR

talking points and extra postcards toshare with riends were distributedat the event. Sixteen hundred post-cards were collected and deliveredto senators.

Other PSR chapters promoting thelm as a means to mobilization in-cluded those in Austin, Iowa, Maine,Oregon, Sacramento, San Franciscoand Washington state.

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Psr rPorts Vol. 32, no. 2

PSR’s new report, “Coal Ash: The

Toxic Threat to our Health andEnvironment” has received substantialradio coverage and has been cited inthe U.S. Environmental Protection

Agency’s public hearings on coal ash.The report, produced with

Earthjustice, documents how toxicsubstances—including arsenic, lead,mercury, cadmium, chromium andselenium—leak, leach and spill romcoal ash storage sites across the coun-try, contaminating undergroundaquiers and endangering humanhealth. Some states allow coal ash tobe used as structural ll, agricultural

soil additive, a top layer on unpavedroads, ll or abandoned mines, aspread on snowy roads, and even ascinders on school running tracks.

Coal ash contaminants contributeto several orms o cancer, as well aslung disease, kidney disease, mentalretardation, neurological damage andeven death.

PSR released the report as the EPA was conducting public hearings in

PSRAddressesHealthDangersoCoalAsh

eight cities across the country on its

proposal to regulate coal ash. PSR was the only consistentmedical voice present atthese hearings. Our phy-sicians and staf testiedat six o the hearings; inChicago; Arlington, Va.;Denver; Charlotte, N.C.;Pittsburgh and Knoxville,they provided much-needed perspective on thehuman health costs asso-ciated with this problem.

The EPA has oferedtwo options or coal ash

disposal, only one o which would require man-datory ederal regulation.PSR has strongly endorsedthat option, known as “Subtitle C,” asthe alternative that would adequately protect human health. PSR urges allo its members to read the report,available on the PSR website, and tocontact the EPA at [email protected] voicing their support or strong,ederally enorceable saeguards thatguarantee coal ash will not polluteour drinking water, rivers, streams,

wildlie and communities.

PSR’s Sae and Healthy Children( Niños Seguros y Sanos) pilot project,

unded by the W.K. Kellogg Founda-tion, aims to diminish health prob-lems among the children o migrantand seasonal arm workers by pre-

venting and reducing their exposure

to environmental hazards, including pesticides, lead, and overexposureto sun and heat. A train-the-trainercurriculum, based on PSR’s Ameri-can Academy o Pediatrics-endorsed Pediatric Environmental HealthToolkit, is being used to disseminatethe program. The curriculum o-cuses on the unique vulnerabilitieso children and osters community collaboration to address the problem.

The rst workshop was held inSeptember in Lansing, Michigan, and

was a resounding success. Twenty-ve Head Start-associated personnel

and support staf participated in thetraining, including the director o theHead Start program, health educators,nurses, a nutritionist, the directorso special education, and the direc-tor and staf o outreach rom thelocal Migrant & Seasonal Head StartProgram and Migrant & Community Health Centers. Attendees pro-

vided positive eedback; “Most o my education on migrant and seasonalarm workers has been ocused on

pesticides. This training has broad-ened my knowledge and introducedme to new topics to discuss with ami-lies” said one, and another comment-ed “I will take the exposure preventionsection with me and implement it inmy daily lie.” Those trained at theinitial training have in turn trainedan additional 50 people.

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A second training is planned inOctober in Florida. At the end o thepilot phase, PSR will have a programready to be rolled out to Head Startprograms nationwide.

For more inormation about Saeand Health Children project, contactProject Manager Marybeth Palmigianoat [email protected].

Two dozen homes were destroyed or damaged bythe 2008 coal ash spill in Kingston, Tennessee.

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Some members o the 111thCongress are pushing to autho-

rize tens o billions more dollarsin nuclear loan guarantees in thelame-duck session this November/December. The Department o En-ergy currently has $18.5 billion inauthority or nuclear guarantees, o

which $8.3 billion has been given outor two reactors in Georgia. It willtake years to know whether this proj-ect will ail, leaving taxpayers on thehook to pay back the loan.

PSR and its coalition partners are

pushing back. We are educating poli-cymakers, the media, and the publicabout the dangers o nuclear powerand the olly o investing taxpayerdollars in it.

We are providing hard evidenceagainst urther loan guarantees.

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Two new reports look at the econom-ics o new reactors and whether more

subsidies can actually kick-start theU.S. nuclear industry. Is There a Nuclear Revival in the United States?, a new paperby the director o PSR’s Sae Energy program, Michele Boyd, concludesthat the U.S. will start to constructas many new reactors as the ederalgovernment and states are willing toheavily subsidize, but the projects may never be completed. Given decreasedelectricity demand, increasing cost o new reactors, and decreasing costs o renewables, even large subsidies may not be enough to make new reactors

competitive with cheaper alternatives,especially eciency measures, naturalgas, and a range o renewable tech-nologies. The paper, published by the Heinrich Böll Foundation, alsoconcludes that heavily subsidizing therst ew reactors will not be sucientto make subsequent reactors econom-ically competitive without subsidies.

A second report, by Mark Cooper,Ph.D., with the Vermont Law School,reutes the claims—popular with some

PSRChallengesNewNuclearLoanGuarantees

Summer and all were lled withlots o local, state and regional

action. Chapters could be ound,among other things, testiying about the need or strong health-protective regulations or coal ash,mentoring medical students to bethe next generation o physicianadvocates, and educating the public,policymakers, and ellow physiciansabout the importance o reductionsin nuclear arsenals. O particu-lar note, 12 chapters hosted moviescreenings o Countdown to Zero, a lmhighlighting the dangers associated

with nuclear weapons; see the story on page 2. And several chapterstrained physicians and other healthproessionals to be environmentalhealth ambassadors as part o PSR’sConronting Toxics program.

PSR/Oregon teamed up withthe Oregon Public Health Associa-tion to host “Politics 101: Finding

Your Voice to Advocate or PublicHealth,” a training designed to teachhealth proessionals how to be moreefective advocates on public healthissues. On August 6th, the Or-egon chapter held a remembrance

event or the 65th anniversary o the bombing o Hiroshima andNagasaki. The chapter is helping hospitals in Oregon and Southwest

Washington implement arm-to-hospital initiatives, such as armersmarkets and arm stands, by provid-

Michele Boyd, director of PSR’s Safe Energy program, at the release of her new report “Is There a Nuclear Revival in the United States?” TheHeinrich Boll Foundation and Center for Strategic International Studiessponsored a panel presentation for the release. Download a free copy fromthe Resources and Publications tab at psr.org.

Chapters Address Nuclear Arms,Fossil Fuels

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ing access to resources and directtechnical assistance.

PSR/Florida, along with theUniversity o South Florida Collegeo Medicine PSR student chapter,placed an op-ed on New START,lobbied on the issue and held a lunchpresentation titled the “Medical E-ects o Nuclear War” by Ira Heland,M.D. More than 70 medical andhealth proessional students at-tended. Students were urged to writeSenator Lemieux (R-FL) asking orhis support or the treaty.

PSR/WesternNorthCarolina partnered with the World AfairsCouncil to promote events such as“Beyond War” and “Nuclear Weaponsand the Human Future” at University o North Carolina-Asheville. Thechapter continues its active oppositionto Duke Energy’s Clifside coal plant.They also convened a Hiroshima Day candlelight vigil or peace in down-town Asheville on August 6th and helda three-day exhibit at the SouthernEnergy and Environmental EXPO,promoting a sustainable environmentand nuclear disarmament.

PSR/GreaterAustin’s KarenLewis, M.D., a pediatrician andmember o PSR/National, represent-ed PSR at the EPA hearing in Dallason proposed coal ash regulations.Dr. Lewis urged the EPA to assumeregulation o coal ash disposal undersubtitle C o the Resource Conserva-tion and Recovery Act o 1976. Dr.Lewis urther commented, at a pressconerence organized by Sierra Club,that coal ash contains some o the

world’s deadliest toxins. More than300 people attended the hearing.

PSR/Chicago is supporting itstwo new student chapters, one atthe University o Illinois at Chi-cago College o Medicine and one atNorthwestern University’s Feinberg School o Medicine. Both chaptershave sailed into the current school

year complete with student ocers,plans and enthusiasm or building robust and sustainable chapters. Ann

Alexander, a lawyer with the NaturalResources Deense Council, is deliv-ering a talk on each campus this allon “The Medical Consequences o the Gul Oil Spill.”

Sen. Herb Kohl, (D-WI), second from left, with PSR/Wisconsin delegation Je Patterson, D.O.;Pam Kleiss, executive director; and Alfred Meyer on PSR’s Day of Action.



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policymakers—that the French havesolved the waste and cost problemso nuclear power and that the Frenchnuclear industry should be modelor the United States. Policy Challengesof Nuclear Reactor Construction documentsthat the French nuclear program ismarked by escalating costs, just likethe U.S. program. Processes such asstandardizing reactor design, learning

by doing, and increasing economieso scale have ailed to lower reactorcosts as predicted. The two Frenchreactors currently under construc-tion in Europe, Olkiluoto in Finlandand Flamanville in France, are each

years behind schedule and billionso Euros over budget. The Frenchreactor design, proposed or two sitesin the United States, has yet to belicensed here because o serious tech-nical issues. Moreover, Dr. Cooper’sreport nds that new reactors actually

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One o the most rewarding aspectso the PSR presidency has been

traveling, speaking and working withPSR members and like-minded olksrom other organizations. This hasproven to be very heartening, both torealize what a powerul role PSR playsin this community and to be uplitedby the tremendous activity and dedi-cation that I have seen. We truly arechanging things or the uture.

I was recently in Chicago to testiy at hearings being held by the EPA oncoal ash regulations. PSR was present,

along with the Sierra Club and many other groups, to take part in a well-organized set o testimonies as wellas a large demonstration in GrantPark. The hearings coincided withthe release o PSR’s new report on thehealth efects o coal ash, an efortcoordinated by Deputy Director BarbGottlieb and the Environment andHealth Committee. A special thanksto Barb, PSR board member SteveGilbert and Lisa Evans o Earthjusticeor authoring this clear, concise re-port. Many activists were carrying around copies o our previous coalreport, rearming that PSR plays amajor role in the discussion o thedangers o coal.

I also traveled to Nashville, whereI met with longtime PSR membersDrs. Manred and Sue Menking.The main events were the opening o the documentary lm Countdownto Zero and a meeting with the aideto Senator Corker, who provided akey Republican vote in the SenateForeign Relations Committee tobring the New START treaty to theSenate oor. The movie opening on a Friday night was attended by

250 people, most o whom stayedor a discussion o nuclear issuesled by mysel and Rev. Tyler Wigg-Stevenson, a dynamic organizer andleader o the Two Futures Project.Then about 60 people adjournedto a local restaurant or urther dis-cussion. On Saturday, we met withSenator Corker’s aide or an hour.Following this trip, I called PSRmembers in Tennessee, who were ea-ger to help by making calls to SenatorCorker. The Senator announced hissupport or the treaty the ollowing Tuesday, two days beore the vote.Similar trips by others, such as Drs.Ira Heland and Bob Gould, playedessential roles in other target states.

Finally, I was recently in Iowa where I spoke and shared two days o planning and strategizing at a terricconerence organized by our PSR/Iowa chapter under the leadershipo Drs. John Rachow and MaureenMcCue, with a coalition including

Veterans or Peace, several religiousgroups and others. The second day

was an enlightening presentation by ReThink Media, a Caliornia-basedgroup with whom we have been work-ing. One can view their inorma-tion on how to talk about nuclear

weapons at http://usintheworld.org/ wp-content/uploads/messaging_guidance/TalkingNuclearWeapons_PersuadableMiddle.pd.

These experiences give me greathope or the uture. Through thededication, work and perseverance o PSR activists, along with like mindedgroups, we are having an efect andtaking steps in the right direction.

It is important or us to remem-ber Einstein’s amous quote about

driting toward unparalleled ca-tastrophe and to renew our efortsbased upon the rst part o his quotethat is oten missed: “We must neverrelax our eforts to arouse in thepeople o the world, and especially in their governments, an awarenesso the unprecedented disaster whichthey are absolutely certain to bring on themselves unless there is a un-

damental change in their attitudestoward one another as well as theirconcept o the uture.”

This is what PSR is about!

Jeffrey J. Patterson, D.O.

Professor, Department of Family Medicine,University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health

AroundtheCountry,PSRMembersStrivetoChangeOurWayoThinking

“crowd out” the cheaper and cleansolutions to climate change: renew-able energy and eciency projects.Signicantly, the French track recordon renewable energy and eciency ispoor compared to similar Europeancountries. The same is true in U.S.states in which new reactors have beenproposed. Renewable and energy eciency resources are our timesgreater in the U.S. than in Europe,and enjoy a greater cost advantage

over nuclear power.

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The question acing U.S. policy-makers is whether to attempt torestart an industry that will requirelarge taxpayer subsidies indenitely.In the next two years, the nuclearreactor industry will be pushing ora dramatic escalation o the unding or new loan guarantees. PSR willbe working with grassroots groups

and other coali-tion partners tocontinue to providethe medical voicein these debates.Policymakers seek out and depend onPSR’s medical andpublic health per-spective—because

we supply viablesolutions and smartpolicy recommen-dations groundedin scientic exper-tise and the moralsensibility o themedical commu-nity.

For more inor-mation on the Sae Energy program,please contact Program DirectorMichele Boyd at [email protected] or(202) 587-5242.

Nuclear reactors“crowd out” renewableenergy and eciency projects.

PSR Board President Je Patterson, D.O.,in Nashville withlong-time PSRmembers SusanMenking, M.D., and Manfred Menking,M.D., for speaking events to discuss theimportance of NewSTART.





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ExECUTIVEDIRECTOR


Wisdom that comes with years o ex-perience, commitment that comes

with knowing you are on the right

side o the moral equation, and de-termination that comes with having to work or years to achieve small victo-ries all helped us stay the course this

year.In spite o setbacks, we persevered.

When New START was in dangero alling victim to partisanship, weredoubled our outreach with morespeaking tours, phone calls, andmedia interviews. When the admin-

Although we celebrated the voteas the rst serious advance in many

years and an important step to get-ting to zero nuclear weapons, weknow the treaty itsel does not goar enough to reduce the dangers o nuclear weapons. We plan additional

work to reduce our dangerously bloated stockpile o weapons, secure

vulnerable ssile material and ratiy the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT). These key steps will move uscloser to zero—our ultimate goal.

What you an o

r mre inrmtin r t increse ur

ctive invlvement, cntct Dvid rt t

[email protected] r (202) 587‑5224.

“Our biomonitoring report, HazardousChemicals in Health Care, 2009, showedthat our chemical policy isn’t work-ing. What’s missing is a stronger pub-lic health voice educating people andpolicymakers about the imperative o reorming chemical policy.”

The Institute has addressed twotopics so ar: “What is the key ob-stacle to implementing an efective,health-protective chemicals manage-ment system?” and “How can we setscience-based policies in the ace o

scientic uncertainty?” Each montha new set o essays will be posted.“We hope the Institute will make themost innovative thinking in this eldreadily accessible to policymakers,advocates, and the media,” said Dr.

Welker-Hood. Visit the Institute at www.psr.org/environmental-health-policy-institute.

Achievingimportant

goalsrequireslong-term

commitment,whethertheissue

iseliminatingnuclearweapons,

stoppingclimatechangeor

protectingthepublic’shealthromthedangersonuclear

energyortoxicdegradation.

istration announced its support ornuclear loan guarantees, we steppedup our message about the economicrisks o new reactors. And when thepush or comprehensive climate

change legislation stalled, we recom-mitted to ampliying the medicaland public health voice in the debateand to building a new, more vibrantmovement or the uture.

PSR members embody the staying power I am talking about. Many o

you have been with PSR or 10, 15 oreven 25 years. As a group, you havehelped build a saer, healthier world.There is much more work to be done.It is more important now than everbeore to continue your involvementand support.

Peter Wilk, M.D.

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President Obama with PSR/Los Angeles sta member Ana Mascarenas.The president held a backyard visit/small town hall at Ana’s family home in Albuquerque to hear a variety of concerns from regular middle class families.

Documents

PSR Reports Fall 2010