November 28, 2012
(CNN) -- Whether a radioactive substance called polonium-210 was involved in Yasser Arafat's death is under investigation. The body of the former Palestine Liberation Organization leader was exhumed Tuesday for this purpose and reburied.
Arafat died in 2004. A murder inquiry into his death was opened this year after high levels of polonium-210 were found on Arafat's toothbrush, clothing...
September 23, 2012
Dr. Dallas, professor and director at the University of Georgia’s Institute for Disaster Management, was quoted in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution article "Nuclear industry slowed by its own waste," written by Kristi Swartz and published on September 23, 2012.
Just as the nuclear industry is starting to build reactors after a 30-year drought, it faces another dry spell.
The...
August 30, 2011
The double shock of last week’s 5.8-magnitude earthquake and the weekend landfall of Hurricane Irene, alongside the ongoing recovery in Japan from the earthquake-and-flood crisis at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear complex, have once again placed nuclear safety at the forefront of the collective American mind.
Georgians have more reasons to consider this, as serious planning for the first...
August 26, 2011
ATLANTA, GA (WABE) - As Georgia starts a return to nuclear power generation, a recent Associated Press investigation found leaks of radioactive tritium at 48 nuclear power sites in the United States. Cham Dallas is a professor in the College of Public Health at the University of Georgia. He recently spent a lot of time in Japan, examining the impact of the nuclear plant crisis there. He spoke...
April 26, 2011
Dr. Cham Dallas has testified in front of congressional panels, advised federal agencies, conducted mass casualty exercises in nearly all of Georgia’s 150 hospitals, published volumes of research on nuclear war preparedness and given, by his estimate, more than 400 lectures on weapons of mass destruction.
Regardless of his audience, whether it’s a collection of graduate students or Senator...
April 9, 2010
A new treaty with Russia to reduce nuclear arms won't lessen our risk of nuclear attack, according to a University of Georgia scientist who studies nuclear terrorism.
"The problem we face now is the risk of a nuclear detonation in the United States is actually increasing," said Cham Dallas, director of the Institute for Disaster Management in UGA's College of Public Health.
Still, the...
