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. . . and then join Chesapeake Physicians for Social Responsibility and add your voice to the chorus for a nuclear-free world: www.chesapeakepsr.org

📷: An explosion at the Fukushima nuclear power plant. Image by Charles LeBlanc via Flickr (bit.ly/4b9Kb4F).

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Physicist MV Ramana on the problem with nuclear power Nuclear is costly, risky and slow, Ramana says. Why then, he asks in his new book, do governments still champion it?

. . . due to climate change’, says Ramana, and cost-cutting measures made by companies that care primarily about the bottom line.”

Read more about Dr. Ramana’s conclusions that nuclear power is too dangerous, costly, and slow here (bit.ly/guardianramana) . . .

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Physicist MV Ramana on the problem with nuclear power Nuclear is costly, risky and slow, Ramana says. Why then, he asks in his new book, do governments still champion it?

. . . For example, if you add in a safety mechanism for one component, this makes the system more complex, which increases the potential pathways for new accidents.

Though major malfunctions are rare, the likelihood of them happening is exacerbated by ‘extreme weather patterns . . .

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Physicist MV Ramana on the problem with nuclear power Nuclear is costly, risky and slow, Ramana says. Why then, he asks in his new book, do governments still champion it?

. . . Technology is similar, he says, drawing on the work of the social scientist Charles Perrow. When you bring different elements of nuclear reactors together, they might work together in unpredictable ways. . . .

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Physicist MV Ramana on the problem with nuclear power Nuclear is costly, risky and slow, Ramana says. Why then, he asks in his new book, do governments still champion it?

. . . In physics, you have what are called emergent properties, and we know how atoms behave, but when you put a group of them together, he says, ‘they start doing things which the individual atoms never do by themselves’. . . .

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Physicist MV Ramana on why nuclear power is too dangerous for this world:

“Perhaps most urgently, the risks of nuclear are too great, he says. The technology works in the sense that there are reactors operating and producing electricity, Ramana says, but it isn’t stable. . . .

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📷: Countries currently signing (yellow) or ratifying (green) the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, as of 2025. Graphic by JayCoop via Wikimedia Commons (bit.ly/3LPRJjd).

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The Treaty turned five in January, and 74 countries have now agreed to be bound by its requirements.

Our movement to solve this problem is growing. Read more about the Treaty’s impact from ICAN here (bit.ly/icantreaty), and learn how you can support its work here: icanw.org

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Chesapeake Physicians for Social Responsibility is honored to support the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, a Nobel Peace Prize-winning campaign whose work led to the establishment of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.

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Did you know that if there were just a 1% chance of a nuclear war each year, the probability of a nuclear war in the next 80 years would be over 50%? It’s like rolling a hundred-sided die over and over again. (Learn more here: bit.ly/nuclearwarprobability.)

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80 Years Later: The Atomic Bomb, Maryland, and Nuclear Abolition On August 10, 2025, Maryland residents gathered to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. We were honored to be joined by several amazing panelists: –Linda Pentz Gunter, the international specialist of Beyond Nuclear –Leslie Sussan, a lawyer and former administrative appellate judge –Kei Ito, a cameraless photographer and third-generation hibakusha (survivor of the atomic bombings) –Gwen DuBois, president of Chesapeake Physicians for Social Responsibility

You can watch our entire panel discussion from August 10 commemorating the 80th anniversaries of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings here: bit.ly/marylandaugust10

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Hope Lingers: A Conversation with Artist Kei Ito on his Artwork Honoring Victims of the U.S. Bombing of Hiroshima Kei Ito is the grandson of a Hiroshima atomic bomb survivor, and his interdisciplinary art explores the legacy of that trauma through themes of memory, identity, and the invisible impacts of nuclear w...

. . . and ultimately, dialogue across communities and generations.”

You can listen to this excerpt from Mr. Ito’s powerful remarks, and read more about his work here: bit.ly/keiitointerview.

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Hope Lingers: A Conversation with Artist Kei Ito on his Artwork Honoring Victims of the U.S. Bombing of Hiroshima Kei Ito is the grandson of a Hiroshima atomic bomb survivor, and his interdisciplinary art explores the legacy of that trauma through themes of memory, identity, and the invisible impacts of nuclear w...

. . . to reach people in a way that words cannot. He lives in Baltimore County. A recent article by the Nuclear Threat Initiative quoted him as saying, “By grounding global issues in individual memory and emotion, art creates a pathway for empathy, awareness . . .

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We were honored to have Kei Ito speak to us during our commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Kei Ito is a cameraless photographer and third-generation hibakusha (survivor of the atomic bombings), which informs his work and allows him . . .

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Tomorrow is Giving Tuesday, the biggest day of charitable giving in the world! Give an early gift to PSR today and double your impact! All donations today and tomorrow will be matched, up to a total of $10,000! 🙌

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. . . to address the climate crisis.”

We can address our problems with the climate crisis, air pollution, and energy security all with the technology we have now.

📷: Solar panels in Oregon. Photo by Oregon Department of Transportation via Wikimedia Commons (bit.ly/oregonsolarpanels).

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. . . which demonstrates that we can decarbonize our energy with 🌬️🌊 ☀️wind, water, and solar power 🌬️🌊☀️(stanford.io/4psxIxf).

The prominent climate scientist Michael Mann writes that the book “presents a comprehensive and detailed blueprint for the options we have right now . . .

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Check out his fantastic short video, “7 reasons why new small & large nuclear is useless” (bit.ly/newnuclearuseless).

Then, read Professor Jacobson’s hopeful, evidence-based new book, “No Miracles Needed: How Today’s Technology Can Save Our Climate and Clean Our Air” . . .

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Mark Jacobson, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Stanford University, has dedicated his career to studying air pollution and climate challenges and developing large-scale clean, renewable energy solutions to them.

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. . . the harm that we still can by working to end the reign of coal, oil, and gas as soon as we can: chesapeakepsr.org

📷: Flooding in downtown Annapolis, MD in 2010. Photo by the Chesapeake Bay Program via Flickr (bit.ly/489J3eJ)

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What Big Oil knew about climate change, in its own words Transcripts and internal documents show how the industry shifted from leading research into fossil fuels’ effect on the climate to sowing doubt about science.

What will all of us do now that we know the truth?

Learn more about what Big Oil knew about climate change in its own words from Benjamin Frata here (bit.ly/frataclimate), and then join our movement to prevent all . . .

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What Big Oil knew about climate change, in its own words Transcripts and internal documents show how the industry shifted from leading research into fossil fuels’ effect on the climate to sowing doubt about science.

As Stanford University Ph.D. candidate in history Benjamin Frata says, 1965 was “before San Francisco’s Summer of Love, before Woodstock, the peak of the '60s counterculture.”

What would the world look like if the leaders of the oil industry had told the truth and acted on it in 1965?

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What Big Oil knew about climate change, in its own words Transcripts and internal documents show how the industry shifted from leading research into fossil fuels’ effect on the climate to sowing doubt about science.

. . . by the year 2000 the heat balance will be so modified as possibly to cause marked changes in climate.”

Why did the American Petroleum Institute not only do nothing about this, but also try to deny the role fossil fuels were and are playing in disrupting the climate?

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What Big Oil knew about climate change, in its own words Transcripts and internal documents show how the industry shifted from leading research into fossil fuels’ effect on the climate to sowing doubt about science.

. . . from the catastrophic consequences of pollution, but time is running out.”

He also said, “One of the most important predictions of the report is that carbon dioxide is being added to the earth’s atmosphere by the burning of coal, oil, and natural gas at such a rate that . . .

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In 1965, an oil executive and president of the American Petroleum Institute told other leaders of the oil industry at the Institute’s annual conference that the White House scientific advisors had just published a report saying, “There is still time to save the world’s peoples . . .

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Let’s protect our communities together. We must prevent what we cannot cure.

📷: Cover of the report from Physicians for Social Responsibility.

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But individuals and health professionals alone are not enough. Protecting communities from the health harms of fossil fuel pollution requires bold policy and systemic change.”

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. . . by engaging with local organizations that are advocating for clean air and a clean energy transition, talking to community members and policymakers about the health harms of fossil fuel pollution and reducing personal reliance on fossil fuels where possible.

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. . . talk about it with one person in your community, and then join Chesapeake PSR today and learn how you can support our work for clean air, clean energy, and climate justice: chesapeakepsr.org/contact-us

More from the report:

"Individuals can also play a vital role. . .

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. . . The Hidden Health Costs of Fossil Fuel Pollution.”

The report reveals how coal, oil and methane gas cause direct health impacts at every stage of life. From the air we breathe to the water we drink, the damage is widespread.

Read the report here (psr.org/fuelingsickness) . . .

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