Fukushima (福島, Fukushima^?, "Good-Fortune Island") may refer to:

• Fukushima City – the capital city of Fukushima Prefecture, Japan
• Fukushima Prefecture – a Japanese prefecture
• Two nuclear power plants located in Fukushima Prefecture:
  • Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant
    • The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster of March 2011
  • Fukushima II Nuclear Power Plant (Fukushima Dai-ni)
• Fukushima-ku, Osaka – a ward in Osaka, Japan
• Fukushima, Hokkaidō – a town in Hokkaido, Japan
• Fukushima-juku – a former post town on the Nakasendō and Kisoji, located in Nagano Prefecture
• Fukushima Industries Corp. – a refrigerator company
• Fukushima University – a national university in Japan
• Mount Fukushima – peak in Antarctica

People[link]

Fukushima is a Japanese surname.

• Keido Fukushima – a Japanese Rinzai Zen Master and abbot of Tōfuku-ji in Kyoto
• Koji Fukushima – a Japanese professional cyclist
• Kunihiko Fukushima – inventor of the Neocognitron
• Masami Fukushima – a Japanese science fiction editor, translator and writer.
• Fukushima Masanori – a samurai during the Sengoku period
• Mizuho Fukushima – a Japanese politician, chairperson of Social Democratic Party
• Satoshi Fukushima, actor
• Shinichi Fukushima – a Japanese professional cyclist
• Tadashi Fukushima – a Japanese long-distance runner
• Fukushima Yasumasa – a Japanese military leader
• Yumiko Fukushima – a former Japanese announcer, wife of Ichiro Suzuki
• Haruka Fukushima – a shōjo manga artist

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Helen Caldicott
Dr. Helen Caldicott, October 2007
Born	(1938-08-07) 7 August 1938 (age 73) Melbourne, Australia
Occupation	Physician, activist
Website
Dr. Caldicott's official website

Helen Mary Caldicott (born 7 August 1938) is an Australian physician, author, and anti-nuclear advocate who has founded several associations dedicated to opposing the use of nuclear power, depleted uranium munitions, nuclear weapons, nuclear weapons proliferation, war and military action in general. She hosts a weekly radio program, If You Love This Planet. In 2009 she was designated a Women's History Month Honoree by the National Women's History Project.^[1]

Life[link]

Born in Melbourne, Australia, Caldicott attended the Fintona Girls' School, and received her medical degree in 1961 from the University of Adelaide Medical School. In 1977 she joined the staff of the Children's Hospital Medical Center in Boston, and taught pediatrics at the Harvard Medical School from 1977 to 1978.

In 1980, following the Three Mile Island nuclear accident, she left her medical career in order to concentrate on calling the world's attention to what she refers to as the "insanity" of the nuclear arms race and the growing reliance on nuclear power.

In 1982, she was the subject of the controversial Oscar-winning National Film Board of Canada documentary on the dangers of nuclear weapons, entitled If You Love This Planet.^[2]

Citing confidential memos, Caldicott says that the Hershey Foods Corporation was concerned about radiation levels in milk used in their products because of the proximity of the Three Mile Island accident to Hershey's Pennsylvania factory. According to Caldicott, citing a 30 March 1979 study by the Pennsylvania State University, College of Engineering, radiation contaminants that fell on the Pennsylvania grass found their way into the milk of the local dairy cows.^[3] Caldicott noted this was contrary to the findings in the government official report^[4] released shortly after the Three Mile Island disaster. Caldicott disputes this report in her book, Nuclear Power is Not the Answer.

Also in 1980, she founded the Women's Action for Nuclear Disarmament (WAND) in the United States, which was later renamed Women's Action for New Directions. It is a group dedicated to reducing or redirecting government spending away from nuclear energy use towards what the group perceives as unmet social issues.

During her time in the United States from 1977 to 1986, Caldicott was the founding president from 1978 to 1983 of Physicians for Social Responsibility (founded originally in 1961 and dormant from 1970 to 1978), and she helped to recruit 23,000 doctors committed to educating the public and their colleagues on the dangers of nuclear energy. She also worked abroad to establish similar national groups that focused on education about the medical dangers of nuclear energy, nuclear weapons and nuclear war. The umbrella organisation [International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War]]) was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1985. She herself received the Humanist of the Year award from the American Humanist Association in 1982.

In 1995 Caldicott returned to the US where she lectured for the New School of Social Research on the Media, Global Politics, and the Environment. She also hosted a weekly radio show on WBAI (Pacifica) and became the Founding President of the STAR (Standing for Truth About Radiation) Foundation.

Her sixth book, The New Nuclear Danger: George W. Bush’s Military Industrial Complex, was published in 2001. While touring with that book, she founded the Nuclear Policy Research Institute, headquartered in Washington, DC. NPRI facilitated an ongoing public education campaign in the mainstream media about the dangers of nuclear energy, including weapons and power programs and policies. It was led by both Caldicott and Executive Director Julie R. Enszer. NPRI attempted to create a consensus to end all uses of nuclear energy by means of public education campaigns, establishing a presence in the mainstream media, and sponsoring high-profile symposia. NPRI has now morphed into Beyond Nuclear. In 2008 Caldicott founded the Helen Caldicott Foundation for a Nuclear Free Future. The foundation hosts a weekly radio show called If You Love This Planet which originated on Huston station KPFT, and now airs on dozens of U.S., Australian and Canadian stations, and on its podcast feed website www.ifyoulovethisplanet.org. The foundation also operates a website called NuclearFreePlanet.org with information and data on nuclear power, Fukushima and nuclear weapons.^[5]

In May 2003, Caldicott gave a lecture entitled "The New Nuclear Threat" at the University of San Diego's Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice Distinguished Lecture Series.

A 2004 documentary film, 'Helen's War: portrait of a dissident',^[6] provides a look into Dr. Caldicott's life through the eyes of her niece, filmmaker Anna Broinowski.

Caldicott currently splits her time between the United States and Australia and continues to lecture widely to promote her views on nuclear energy use, including weapons and power. She has been awarded 21 honorary doctoral degrees and was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize by Nobel Laureate Linus Pauling. She was awarded the Lannan Foundation Prize for Cultural Freedom in 2003, and in 2006, the Peace Organisation of Australia presented her with the inaugural Australian Peace Prize "for her longstanding commitment to raising awareness about the medical and environmental hazards of the nuclear age". The Smithsonian Institution has named Caldicott as one of the most influential women of the 20th century. She is a member of the scientific committee of the Fundacion IDEAS, a progressive think tank in Spain.

A fully revised and updated edition of her 1992 book "If You Love This Planet" was published by W.W. Norton in September 2009.

Helen Caldicott is featured along with foreign affairs experts, space security activists and military officials in interviews in Denis Delestrac's 2010 feature documentary "Pax Americana and the Weaponization of Space".

Dr. Caldicott spoke to a standing room only crowd at the Faulkner Gallery in Santa Barbara on Friday March 23, 2012 on "The Medical Implications of Fukushima, Nuclear Power and Nuclear Proliferation".^{[citation needed]}

Australian politics[link]

Caldicott contested the New South Wales seat of Division of Richmond in the House of Representatives at the 1990 federal election, a seat held by conservatives since the inaugural 1901 election, and by the Country Party (now National Party) since it first contested elections at the 1922 election. Caldicott polled very well for a federal independent candidate, receiving 23.3 percent of the primary vote. On the sixth count, Caldicott had 27.4 percent of the vote, with Nationals incumbent (and then leader of the Nationals) Charles Blunt at 43.2 percent and Labor candidate Neville Newell at 29.4 percent. Caldicott was eliminated, and her preferences flowed heavily to Newell. This enabled Labor to take the seat for the first time in its history, on 50.5 percent of the two party preferred vote, a swing of 7.1 percent.^[7] This saw only one of three times a major party leader was defeated in his own seat at an election, the others being Stanley Bruce at the 1929 election and John Howard at the 2007 election.

Caldicott wished to enter the Australian Senate in 1991 and attempted to win Australian Democrats' support to replace New South Wales Senator Paul McLean, who had recently resigned. However, the party chose the highest unelected person on their New South Wales Senate ticket from the previous election and Karin Sowada took the position.

See also[link]

• Anti-nuclear movement in Australia
• Anti-nuclear movement in the United States
• Nuclear weapons and the United States
• Nuclear-free zone
• Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone
• Treaty of Rarotonga

Bibliography[link]

• Nuclear Madness (1979)
• Missile Envy (1984)
• If You Love This Planet: A Plan to Heal the Earth (1992 and 2009)
• A Desperate Passion: An Autobiography (1996)
• Metal of Dishonor: How Depleted Uranium Penetrates Steel, Radiates People and Contaminates the Environment, Publisher: International Action Center, (1997) ISBN 0-9656916-0-8
• The New Nuclear Danger: George W. Bush’s Military Industrial Complex (2001 and 2004).
• Nuclear Power Is Not the Answer to Global Warming or Anything Else (2006)
• War in Heaven: The Arms Race in Outer Space (with Craig Eisendrath) (2006)

References[link]

External links[link]

• www.helencaldicott.com - Dr. Caldicott's official website
• www.ifyoulovethisplanet.org - Dr. Caldicott's weekly radio program, "If You Love This Planet"
• Watch a video clip of Helen Caldicott at Big Picture TV
• Video of Speech on Depleted Uranium from Freespeech.org
• Anti Nuclear Oxford debate by former New Zealand PM David Lange
• Heyoka Magazine Interview
• [2] KGNU Denver interview with Claudia Cragg in July 2007 about Japan's Nuclear Industry and Earthquakes]
• In Depth interview with Caldicott, 6 March 2005

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