Maisie Shiell (1916–2008) became involved in

anti-nuclear The anti-nuclear movement is a social movement that opposes various nuclear technologies. Some direct action groups, environmental movements, and professional organisations have identified themselves with the movement at the local, natio ...

issues in 1976 when public concern developed about a new uranium mine in

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. At sixty-one years of age, Shiell began learning how to translate highly technical issues about radioactivity into something she could understand and pass along to other lay people.Maisie Shiell
In 2002, Shiell received the

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award for Environmentalist of the Year and also shared the Lifetime Achievement Award given by the

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. In 2004, the

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honored her with another prize. Shiell was internationally recognized in 1998 when she received the first Lifetime Achievement prize from the Munich-based

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. In May 2008, Shiell died at her Saskatoon home, aged 92.Nuclear activist Shiell dies at 92

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