Mud dredged from the Hinkley C nuclear construction site in Somerset, England, and dumped 1.5 miles off the Welsh capital, Cardiff, into the estuarine bay, could contain plutonium. But a recent motion in the Welsh Assembly to halt dumping operations un…
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More than 10 million doctors from 114 countries urged all states to sign and ratify the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons during its recent meeting in Reykjavik, Iceland.
“The WMA Declarations of Geneva, of Helsinki and of Tokyo make clea…
So says an action alert by Public Citizen.
Please help us generate a large number of quality public comments to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) in opposition to a 40,000 metric ton irradiated nuclear fuel centralized interim storage facili…
So says an action alert by Public Citizen.
Please help us generate a large number of quality public comments to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) in opposition to a 40,000 metric ton irradiated nuclear fuel centralized interim storage facili…
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) today released its new report on global warming which contains dire predictions about the consequences if insufficient action is taken to stem the onrushing climate change crisis.
The report has a lo…
All nuclear power plants routinely release radioactive gases and water contaminated with radioactive isotopes. When a nuclear plant has a serious accident — as occurred at Three Mile Island, Chernobyl and Fukushima — orders of magnitude mor…
Continue readingDuring events to mark the anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Yoko Shimowsawa stood in that cut with a handheld microphone and told her story. She recounted how her young daughter’s ill health — which doctors ascribed to radiation exposure…
Continue readingWhen arguing the case for or against nuclear energy, you can go with the masters of spin and omission or you can go with the empirical data. We prefer the latter. And for that, there is the welcome annual edition of the World Nuclear Industry Stat…
Continue readingKay Drey, Beyond Nuclear board presidentAs reported by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
After a grassroots campaign that has lasted not years, but decades, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is poised to announce its Record of Decision (ROD) re…
Kay Drey, Beyond Nuclear board presidentAs reported by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
After a grassroots campaign that has lasted not years, but decades, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is poised to announce its Record of Decision (ROD) re…
And then there were none? The costs have ballooned to $27 billion. The project is years behind schedule. But construction of two AP 1000 Westinghouse nuclear reactors — Vogtle 3 and 4 in GA — will continue for now. The project partners…
Continue readingFrom ICAN: Every year on the 26th of September, people all over the world take action to call for a world free of nuclear weapons. This year, we’re showing the world that nothing about nuclear weapons is acceptable. While responsible states from …
Continue readingOn August 31, 2018, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) announced another round of public comment opportunity, open until October 19, 2018. (The day before, NRC had also announced the resumption of the Waste Control Specialists/Interim Stora…
Continue readingA Cardiff, Wales judge on Monday adjourned a High Court court hearing for a week after being presented with inaccurate documentation by lawyers for an EDF subsidiary, NNB. NNB claims that the transfer of radioactive mud dredged from EDF’s Hinkley…
Continue readingAward-winning environmental journalist, John Vidal, has written a powerful piece about sea-level rise under climate change and how coastal nuclear power plants are likely to cope (or not) under these conditions. Are sea walls adequate? Does it make sen…
Continue readingThe climate crisis is upon us almost everywhere you look. The latest violent storms in the US once again threatened power outages and floods that can be fatal for nuclear power plants. Luck held this time but we cannot count on it forever. Meanwhile se…
Continue readingKay Drey, Beyond Nuclear board presidentOp-ed by Kay Drey (photo, left), Beyond Nuclear’s board president, in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
Also see Kay’s pamphlets about the West Lake Landfill, “The Safety of St. Louis Drinking Water Depends on You!!” …
The oldest operating atomic reactor in the U.S., Oyster Creek, NJ, has finally, at long last, shut down, for good, after 49 years. The good news? No more risk of reactor meltdown at this Fukushima Daiichi twin design (a GE BWR Mark I); no more radioact…
Continue readingCounterSpin, the popular radio program created by FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting) features Beyond Nuclear board member, Karl Grossman, discussing President Trump’s unpopular plan to create a “Space Force.”
Listen here.
And here is the intro f…
There has been almost no press coverage of a massive protest today (August 28) against the proposed massive French Jaitapur nuclear power complex in India. Pradeep Indulkar reports via Twitter that “Thousands of farmers and fisherman are on road today …
Continue readingTwo articles today on Beyond Nuclear International, our story-telling blog site, each describing the devastating effect of four proposed uranium mines in Western Australia and the need to preserve the beauty and quiet of the pristine outback.
Fighting …
On August 17, the Asahi Shimbun ran an encouraging story saying that construction firm, Bechtel, had pulled out of the unpopular Wylfa B Hitachi nuclear power plant project on the north coast of Wales (planned project pictured above in an unrealis…
Continue readingIn less then two months the United Nations General Assembly will decide whether to hold the UN High-Level Conference (Summit) on Nuclear Disarmament, which has been planned for five years, or to yield to the pressure from pro-nuclear forces&n…
Continue readingIn an excellent new piece, now also published on Beyond Nuclear International, Henry Sokolski and Victor Gilinsky, of the Nonproliferation Policy Education Center, show how Saudi Arabia’s decision to suspend all new business with Canada could inadverte…
Continue readingThe United Nations has criticized the Japanese government for exploiting low-income workers at the stricken Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear power plant and exposing them to unacceptable levels of radioactivity while they conduct “cleanup” work at the site.
I…
As reported by the Fremont (Ohio) News-Messenger: “Perry, Davis-Besse nuclear power plants move one step closer to deactivation.”
However, as Akron, OH-based FirstEnergy officials make clear in their quotes in the article, the company’s lobbyists’ ques…
“This is a crucial moment where the public must stand and say ‘hell no!” said Bruce Gagnon, coordinator of the Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space, on his blog. “Star Wars” isn’t “a…
Continue readingAs reported by the Detroit Free Press.
See the groups’ press release, and additional media coverage, here.
As reported by CBS News.
After the ATSDR report was published, Beyond Nuclear did a post going into more detail on the Cold Water Creek and West Lake Landfill radioactive contamination disaster in metro St. Louis, MO.
These radioactive wastes are amon…
Two years after the Hiroshima bombing, children from a church in Washington, DC, sent art supplies to their counterparts in Hiroshima. Those children drew surprising visions of joy, then sent the pictures back to DC as a gift. Forgotten for decades, th…
Continue readingSetsuko Thurlow is perhaps the world’s best known Hibakusha — a survivor of the American atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan on August 6, 1945. When she speaks there is rarely a dry eye in the house. Beyond Nuclear has reprinted her moving testimony, w…
Continue readingThe misadventures of a planned three-reactor site in Cumbria’s UK just worsened (or improved, from our perspective) as project owner, Toshiba, appeared to dismiss its latest in a long line of departing partners, Kepco. Cumbrians Opposed to a Radioactiv…
Continue readingThe New Jersey-based company Holtec International has agreed to purchase three soon-to-close U.S. nuclear power stations to try out its new rapid decommissioning strategy. Pending U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) approval, Chicago-based Exelon …
Continue readingAs reported by MLive/Kalamazoo Gazette.
The article quotes Beyond Nuclear’s Kevin Kamps:
Kevin Kamps of Beyond Nuclear said he has concerns about the planned sale, and questions the corporate character of Holtec.
“We’re very concerned about who…
Continue readingThe Selous Game Reserve in Tanzania — a World Heritage Site — has been left unprotected from plundering uranium mining companies. A major uranium mine is now projected for the park, home to Africa’s largest elephant population, already under severe t…
Continue readingJournalist, Fedor Maryasov and lawyer, Andrey Talevlin aren’t afraid to challenge Rosatom, even though their activities have resulted in the two Russians being labeled “extremists” and “foreign agents.” Nuclear-Free Future Award winner, Oleg Bodrov of …
Continue readingBeyond Nuclear is pressing the call for an “autopsy” of New Jersey’s Oyster Creek nuclear power station and other decommissioning commercial power reactors in the United States. Beyond Nuclear covered the U.S. Nuclear Regula…
Continue readingAs reported by The Gazette in Cedar Rapids, IA, as well as KCRG-TV9. The electricity supply will largely be replaced by more cost effective renewables, such as wind power. Duane Arnold, a General Electric Mark I Boiling Water Reactor — a twin design t…
Continue readingBeyond Nuclear’s Kevin Kamps (left), with Ian Zabarte of the Native Community Action Council, at the “Zero Hour” youth climate march on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., Saturday, July 21, 2018. Photo by Galen Tromble.
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SAMPLE COMMENTS you can use to prepare your own, for expressing opposition to the Holtec International/Eddy-Lea [Counties] Energy Alliance’s proposal to “park” 173,600 metric tons of irradiated nuclear fuel in southeastern New Mexico, are posted at Bey…
Continue readingBeyond Nuclear is pressing the call for an “autopsy” of New Jersey’s Oyster Creek nuclear power stationand other decommissioning commercial power reactors in the United States. The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) public …
Continue readingAs reported by Kathiann M. Kowalski in Midwest Energy News. Beyond Nuclear’s radioactive waste specialist, Kevin Kamps, is quoted in the article.
Working with local grassroots allies, such as Toledo attorney Terry Lodge, and Don’t Waste Michigan’s Mic…
Today, July 16, also marks the anniversary of the 1945 Trinity atomic test. Shockingly, those downwind in New Mexico, the same state in which the bomb was detonated, have never been recognized as affected and never compensated. Beyond Nuclear went with…
Continue readingToday, July 16, marks the anniversary of the biggest “accidental” release of radioactive waste in US history.
On July 16, 1979, the worst accidental release of radioactive waste in U.S. history happened at the Church Rock uranium mine and mi…
Jeffrey Lee, Karipbek Kuyukov, Linda Walker, Peter Weish, Didier and Pauletee Anger
The five winners of the 2018 Nuclear-Free Future Award, representing often unsung grassroots activists and innovators who oppose all aspects of nuclear power and nucle…
A new study, believed to be the first to investigate health effects on insects near operating nuclear power plants, has found a highly significant twofold increase in morphological malformations on true bugs in the 5 km vicinity of three Swiss nuclear …
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Kevin Kamps, Radioactive Waste Watchdog with Beyond Nuclear, talks with host Margaret Harrington on N…
The Space Force plan once more promoted by the White House, prompted our column on Beyond Nuclear International this week. We quoted nukes in space expert, Karl Grossman, also a Beyond Nuclear board member, in our piece. Here is Grossman’s article, app…
Continue readingAs fast and furious congressional votes on annual appropriations regarding energy-related matters take place on Capitol Hill, Beyond Nuclear has joined with scores of allied environmental and environmental justice organizations in urging the U.S. H…
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