BASIC’s Emerging Voices Network is due to release its anthology of Nuclear Harm Reduction measures at a Zoom meeting between 1300 and 1430 BST on Monday (16 June)
Keynote speaker Anaïs Maurer, Assistant Professor at Rutgers University and author of Pacific Post-Apocalypse: Stories from Nuclear Survivors and Climate Activists will join the chairs of five Working Groups. Each will present their papers, the culmination of a year-long policy cycle on Nuclear Harm Reduction.
Register to attend via Zoom here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_NyhjOpU_RY6HwXGpYU79Pw
Each working group has grappled with a different category of nuclear harm and offers recommendations for its mitigation, bringing fresh thinking and a truly international perspective to difficult and deep-seated problems.
The five subjects covered are:
- Radiological waste
- Uranium mining
- The environmental effects of nuclear conflict and deterrence thinking
- The displacement of people due to nuclear testing
- Atomic veterans
“The project is not just testament to the breadth and depth of the harms caused by nuclear weapons, but also assesses the scale of the task required to address them,” EVN Programme Manager Dave Cullen said.
BASIC’s EVN programme seeks to reach, engage and platform early career and young experts from communities, countries and backgrounds that are underrepresented in mainstream nuclear policy fora. The EVN is committed to helping these individuals overcome institutional barriers to ensure that nuclear fora are truly global and that the perspectives and expertise of communities that are often minoritised, yet impacted by nuclear weapons development and policy, are centred and integrated into mainstream nuclear dialogue.