Nuclear Free Berkeley Act - The Daily Californian

Monday, October 10, 2011

City council member wants to repeal parts of Berkeley’s nuclear free act

This sign on College Avenue indicates Berkeley's status as a nuclear free zone, which it has been since the 1980s.

Berkeley City Councilmember Gordon Wozniak is working to repeal key portions of the Nuclear Free Berkeley Act — a measure that blocks the city from dealing with anything related to nuclear power. Wozniak takes issue with the section of the act, passed by voters in 1986, that prevents the city Read More…

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Thursday, February 7, 2013

Berkeley City Council asks university to halt management of Livermore and Los Alamos labs

The Berkeley City Council approved a letter Tuesday evening requesting that the University of California cease operating the national weapons labs in Lawrence Livermore and Los Alamos National Laboratories. Read More…

Letters to the Editor

Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Berkeley’s Nuclear Free Act is inspiration

Written in response to The Daily Californian’s Oct. 18 editorial about Berkeley’s Nuclear Free Act: On Aug. 6, 2005, I joined then-Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi and 55,000 others at Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima, site of the atomic bombing 60 years before. That devastating bomb was a tiny fraction of Read More…

Notes from the Field

Monday, October 10, 2011

City council member wants to repeal Nuclear Free Berkeley Act

Berkeley City Councilmember Gordon Wozniak is working to repeal key portions of the Nuclear Free Berkeley Act – an act that blocks the city from dealing with anything related to nuclear power.