Ohio religious women to join in nuclear protests at Tennessee plant

Published: 2006-07-25

DAYTON, Ohio (CNS) -- Women religious from at least three Ohio congregations will join hundreds of other people in early August for a peaceful protest outside the Y12 Nuclear Weapons Plant in Oak Ridge, Tenn. The protest will mark the 61st anniversary of the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima, Japan. Related protests around the country are scheduled for the Livermore Nuclear Weapons Lab in the San Francisco area, the Bettis Atomic Power Laboratory near Pittsburgh and the Los Alamos (N.M.) National Laboratory. Members of the Sisters of the Precious Blood in Dayton, Franciscan Sisters of Tiffin and Sisters of Charity of Cincinnati will participate in awareness sessions and prayers at Oak Ridge, in addition to a rally and march to the Y12 site Aug. 5. The Oak Ridge plant enriched the uranium that fueled the "Little Boy" bomb that destroyed Hiroshima Aug. 6, 1945. It also produced the thermonuclear assembly for every nuclear weapon in the U.S. arsenal, according to the protest organizers.

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