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Kelly McMasters, an author and professor who taught at F&M, returns to campus for free event.

Article: The Dangers if Tritium - Large amounts of the radioactive substance tritium are planned to be released into the Hudson River from Indian Point nuclear plant site, 25 miles north of New York City, and also from the site of the ruined Fukushima nuclear power plants in Japan, this 1.3 million tons of tritium-contaminated wastewater from the Fukushima plants, into the Pacific Ocean. Tritium cant be filtered out of water. How dangerous is tritium?

Article: The Dangers if Tritium - Large amounts of the radioactive substance tritium are planned to be released into the Hudson River from Indian Point nuclear plant site, 25 miles north of New York City, and also from the site of the ruined Fukushima nuclear power plants in Japan, this 1.3 million tons of tritium-contaminated wastewater from the Fukushima plants, into the Pacific Ocean. Tritium cant be filtered out of water. How dangerous is tritium?

By Karl H Grossman, August 01, 2023  https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/8/1/2184519/-Dangers-of-Tritium The two nuclear reactors at Brookhaven National Laboratory on Long Island, New York were shut down in the late 1990s because they had been leaking tritium into the water table below, part of the island’s aquifer system on which more than 3 million people depend on as their sole…

Article: Radioactive: The Women of Three Mile Island -- a Masterpiece of a Documentary Film - Radioactive: The Women of Three Mile Island is the title of a newly-released documentary feature film directed, written and produced by award-winning filmmaker Heidi Hutner, a professor of environmental humanities at Stony Brook University. With greatly compelling facts and interviews, she and her also highly talented production team have put together a masterpiece of a documentary film.

Host Lauren Korn speaks with Margot Kahn and Kelly McMasters, the co-editors of ‘Wanting: Women Writing About Desire,’ an anthology of essays that explores desire, its ever-changing shape—and from multiple lenses of womanhood.

This year’s hybrid edition of the festival focuses on ‘(un)learning’ architecture through a range of talks, exhibitions and activities Scotland’s independent architecture festival the Architecture Fringe has now opened, with events taking place both in person across Scotland, and online. With this year’s theme of ‘(Un)Learning’, the festival invites people to explore, interrogate and rethink the world of architecture and what it could be. The free festival, running 4 to 20 June 20...