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🚀 EM Radiation Research Trust tribute: Sissel Halmøy, Norwegian rocket scientist who demanded action on EMF

August 26, 2026 (EMFS)
Aug 25, 2026 (original)
Source: EM Radiation Research Trust
Source category: Advocacy/NGO
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EM Radiation Research Trust reports: Director Eileen O'Connor publishes a personal tribute to Norwegian engineer Sissel Halmøy, chair of the International EMF Alliance and head of Citizens' Radiation Protection in Norway. O'Connor recounts how Halmøy, a cybernetics engineer who worked 18 years in rocket science, traced her own 1985 collapse and recurring headaches to an office built over a transformer. Their meeting at the trust's 2008 Royal Society conference led to the 2009 Stavanger conference, the Seletun Statement, a 2010 consensus paper and the co-founding of the International EMF Alliance. The tribute also recalls their joint appearances at WHO and European Commission meetings in Paris and Athens.
Note: Personal tribute by the trust's director; biographical details are the author's own account.

"We discovered the office was built over a transformer. Mystery solved. It was not a virus infection of the brain; it was radiation sickness."

— Sissel Halmøy, 2014 Athens presentation, quoted by Eileen O'Connor

"I want Action."

— Sissel Halmøy to Eileen O'Connor at the 2008 Royal Society conference

"Not because she seeks conflict, but because she has courage. She asks difficult questions, challenges authority, walks into challenging rooms, stands her ground and keeps going."

— Eileen O'Connor, EM Radiation Research Trust

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Celebrating Sissel Halmøy, Rocket Scientist, Norwegian Warrior, and a Force to Be Reckoned With radiationresearch.org

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