Resource Kit Available

The Institute for Energy and Environmental Research has teamed up with the Alliance for Nuclear Accountability and Physicians for Social Responsibility to compile an information kit for activists and other concerned people about newly revealed private companies in the United States where nuclear weapons related work was done. The Forgotten Nuclear Sites Information and Action Kit is designed to assist neighbors and former workers of such facilities to get more information about environmental contamination and health effects that may have resulted from their operations. It also suggests ways to get the federal government to properly address these problems. The kit includes background information, newspaper articles, and a resource list of government agencies, community groups, and technical resources. It also includes action items like sample letters to the editor and to policy makers. Forgotten nuclear sites located in dozens of states across the country were revealed in the September 6-8, 2000, USA Today newspaper series "Poisoned Workers and Poisoned Places." IEER analyzed worker doses at three of them in the report Preliminary Partial Dose Estimates from the Processing of Nuclear Materials at Three Plants during the 1940s and 1950s. To order a kit, contact: Alliance for Nuclear Accountability 1914 N. 34th, Suite #407 Seattle, WA 98103 USA Tel.: 1-206-547-3175 Fax: 1-206-547-7158 or visit the Web site of Physicians for Social Responsibility (The Alliance for Nuclear Accountability is a network of local, regional and national organizations working together to promote education and action addressing issues pertaining to the US nuclear weapons complex and related facilities. Physicians for Social Responsibility, the US affiliate of the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, is a national organization of medical professionals and others working to eliminate weapons of mass destruction, preserve a sustainable environment, and reduce interpersonal violence.)