Hitomi Kamanaka Lecture

Where: Howe Library, 13 South Main Street
When: November 2nd, 11:00 AM


Nuclear Disaster to Sustainable Future by  Ms. Hitomi Kamanaka

Post-disaster Fukushima display  by Ms. Keiko Kokubun

Update on Nihonmatsu by Ms. Chiho Kaneko

About
Ms. Hitomi Kamanaka, an award-winning documentary film director from Japan, is on tour and will give this lecture. She first witnessed the terrible effects of radiation when she went to Iraq in 1998. Many Iraqi children were dying from leukemia after the Gulf War (1990) and the suspected cause was radiation exposure from depleted uranium warheads used during the war. She has studied the decades-long suffering of Hiroshima atomic bomb victims from internal radiation exposure, the nuclear contamination at the Hanford nuclear facilities on the Columbia River in Washington State in the 1980s, and the small northern Japanese village of Rokkasho, whose citizens are fiercely divided over the construction of a nuclear recycling facility. Ms. Kamanaka will discuss this history of nuclear contamination, update us on the aftermath of the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant accidents, and suggest options for sustainable energy in the future. Please welcome Ms. Kamanaka.