Anti-nuclear global citizens visit Manhattan
Project radioactive waste site in Palos Township
Seventy years and a day after the first atomic chain reaction that started at University of Chicago, Illinois; opponents of nuclear energy and nuclear weapons gathered Monday at a forest preserve in Palos Township outside of Chicago. The peaceful Red Gate Woods is where radioactive waste was buried decades ago on a site topped with a granite marker …
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Pastos, from the Center For Water Advocacy, casts his shadow on a stone
marker while photographing the buried nuclear waste site of the
Manhattan Project on its 70th anniversary at Red Gate Woods in Palos
Township, Illinois, Monday, December 3, 2012. | Joseph P. Meier~Sun
Times
Media
(Carl Wassilie, Alaska's Big Village Network, stands next to the nuclear tombstone in Palos Park, Illinois)
CAUTION- DO NOT DIG
BURIED IN THIS AREA IS RADIOACTIVE MATERIAL FROM NUCLEAR RESEARCH CONDUCTED HERE 1943-1949. BURIAL AREA IS MARKED BY SIX CORNER MARKERS 100 FT FROM THIS CENTER POINT. THERE IS DANGER TO VISITORS. (NO is eteched out)
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
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Gail Snyder, of Homer Glen, talks with others about the
radiation readings she is getting on her meter at the site of the buried
nuclear waste from the Manhattan Project at Red Gate Woods in Palos
Township, Illinois, Monday, December 3, 2012. | Joseph P. Meier~Sun
Times Media
Anti-nuclear supporters marking the 70th anniversary of the
Manhattan Project walk past capped well heads surrounding the buried
nuclear waste site at Red Gate Woods in Palos Township, Illinois,
Monday, December 3, 2012. | Joseph P. Meier~Sun Times Media
Anti-nuclear supporters marking the 70th anniversary of the
Manhattan Project walk past capped well heads surrounding the buried
nuclear waste site at Red Gate Woods in Palos Township, Illinois,
Monday, December 3, 2012. | Joseph P. Meier~Sun Times Media
"On December 2, 1942, an experiment at the University of Chicago led by Enrico Fermi produced the world’s first human-made sustained chain reaction, and launched the Nuclear Age. The Nuclear Age has not been kind to everyone – beginning (AND ON-GOING) with the people of Japan. The Faustian bargain continues to this day – with the Japanese again becoming nuclear victims after Fukushima, and the world threatened by the continued presence of both nuclear weapons and nuclear power radiation releases and wastes."
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Indigenous Peoples with the Defenders of the Black hills are calling out to the World to address the "past and planned uranium and coal mining in the Northern Great Plains region that should give cause for alarm to all thinking people in the United States. This is the area that has been called "the Bread Basket of the World." For more than forty years, the people of Northern Great Plains and beyond have been subjected to radioactive pollution in the air and water from the hundreds of abandoned open pit uranium mines, processing sites, underground nuclear power stations, and waste dumps."
