As reported by the New York Times.
However:
…Richard Azzopardi, a spokesman for the governor, cautioned that nothing had been finalized.
“There is no agreement — Governor Cuomo has been working on a possible agreement for 15 ye…
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Mr. Burns, Nuclear Scrooge of Simpsons infamy, wasn’t stingy when it came to handing out “Atomic Fireballs” as a stand in for the radioactive waste the nuclear industry would like the public to “consent” to “swallowing,” during a protest outsid…
Continue readingInitiated by Joe Cirincione, President of Ploughshares Fund. (Ironically enough, Cirincione initiated this petition the day before Putin’s and Trump’s infamous “new arms race” rhetoric, as documented in Cirincione’s Huffington Post article.)
PLEASE SIG…
As posted at the website of U.S. Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA):
Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey, Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), Congressman William Keating (MA-09), Governor Charlie Baker, the entire Massachusetts Congressional delegation, a…
As reported by Motoko Rich in the New York Times.
Continue reading“Castle Bravo,” March 1, 1954, a 15 mega-ton hydrogen bomb “test” blast carried out by the U.S. on the Marshall Islands in the Pacific OceanWhat a week it’s been. It began with Russian president Putin declaring on Dec. 22 that “We need to strengthen …
Continue readingGene Case of Avenging Angels’ graphic, “Burning Money,” was featured on the cover of The Nation Magazine, accompanying an article by Christian Parenti in 2003 about the nuclear power relapseAs reported by Bloomberg, multi-billion dollar (and skyrocke…
Continue readingFermi 2, located on the Great Lakes shoreline in Monroe County, MIOn Dec. 15, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) finalized its rubber-stamp of Fermi Unit 2’s 20-year license extension, despite years and decades of resistance by such grassroots…
Continue readingBeyond Nuclear is calling for the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission to name the U.S. reactors that might be operating with defective parts imported from France. While potentially affected French reactors have closed down as a safety precaution, the U….
Continue readingHarsh political rhetoric, combined with the vulnerability of the nuclear command-and-control system, has made the risk of global catastrophe greater than ever. By Eric Scholosser, in the New Yorker.
Continue readingTerry Lodge, legal counsel for the environmental coalition resisting Fermi 3
An environmental coalition, including Beyond Nuclear, is entering its 10th year of resistance (2008-2017) against Detroit Edison’s proposed new Fermi Unit 3 reactor in south…
The International Campaign to Ban Nuclear Weapons has reported on this story.
Physicians for Social Responsibility has put out a press release lauding the vote.
A quarter-century after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President-elect Donald J. Trump have, in remarkably similar language, called for the strengthening and expansion of their countries’ respective nucle…
Continue readingAttorneys Terry Lodge of Toledo, OH, and Diane Curran of Washington, D.C., legal counsel for an environmental coalition that includes Beyond Nuclear, have filed a Reply Memorandum to the D.C. Circuit Court in defense of a lawsuit against unpreced…
Continue readingTruth in advertizing under a Trump administration?!Former Texas governor, Rick Perry, has been tapped to run the federal agency he swore to abolish, if only he could remember which one it was. Perry’s leadership of the Department of Energy could jeo…
Continue readingAs reported by Reuters, and Tweeted by Scott Stapf of the Hastings Group: Nine U.S. reactors linked to French scandal over falsified documents over nuclear parts.
Although the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) won’t name the implicated American …
The Connecticut Supreme Court has reversed a lower court decision on the Millstone nuclear power station Clean Water Act permit, clearing the path for activists to nullify the permit on environmental grounds at an upcoming hearing. &nb…
Continue readingThe Palisades nuclear power plant in Covert, MI, will close in October 2018, its owner, Entergy, has announced. The notorious reactor has been beset by critical safety issues for decades, long neglected, ignored, or given a pass by the U.S. Nuclear Reg…
Continue readingA leaked email from an inspector with the U.S Nuclear Regulatory Commission mistakenly sent December 5, 2016 to a local community activist, reveals that Entergy Corporation is “overwhelmed” by the operation of its aging Pilgrim nu…
Continue readingBeyond Nuclear was once again a co-sponsor of the Nuclear-Free Future Awards, this time held in Johannesburg, South Africa, November 16-20. It was perhaps the most eclectic and international of all Award gatherings in recent years and “offi…
Continue readingBeyond Nuclear board member, Karl Grossman, writing in Counterpunch today, says it’s likely.
“It is highly likely that the Trump administration will move to have the U.S. deploy weapons in space. If this happens, it will be profoundly destabilizi…
Beyond Nuclear’s Paul Gunter (left), also a founder of the Clamshell Alliance that opposed construction of the Seabrook, NH nuclear power reactors, gave some insight to the Cape Cod Times on why the dangers persist — particularly at the Pilgrim, MA nu…
Continue readingEvery nuclear power plant routinely releases radioactive contaminants — gases, liquids and particles — during its daily operation and during refueling. It does not take an accident. Exposure to these releases is dangerous to human health, a…
Continue readingAn op-ed has been published by Crain’s, written by Dave Lundy, director of the Best Coalition. Best Coalition is described as a diverse group of consumer, business and energy interests.
Continue readingIn another retreat on the nuclear power front, Vietnam has decided to abandon plans to pursue nuclear power in that country. Meanwhile, just days later, South Africa announced it would delay plans to develop nuclear power. Both countries had deals with…
Continue readingOn Nov. 22nd, Diane Curran of Washington, D.C. and Terry Lodge of Toledo, OH — legal counsel for an environmental coalition that includes Beyond Nuclear — filed a motion in the Washington, D.C. federal district court, entitled MEMORANDUM OF POINTS…
Continue readingAs reported by Gregg Levine and Caroline Preston in The New Yorker.
The article quotes Beyond Nuclear: One option is consolidated interim storage. Under this plan, the spent fuel would be moved from plants in thirty states to a handful of regional, a…
A march through downtown Johannesburg drew several thousand on November 18, 2016. Organized by Earthlife Africa and the Nuclear-Free Future Awards, Beyond Nuclear also participated (along with Awards events and in leading the Think Nuclear-Free Symposi…
Continue readingThe Shinzo Abe government’s plan to restart nuclear power in Japan was shaken to its core with a 7.4 magnitude earthquake that struck on November 21, 2016 just off the coast of the destroyed Fukushima Dai-Ichi atomic reactors. Fukushima Daiichi i…
Continue readingAs reported by the New York Times, President-Elect Donald J. Trump is engaging in personal business matters that violate ethical standards as incipient “Leader of the Free World,” the highest office in the U.S. And Exhibit A is Trump’s advocacy, during…
Continue readingAs reported by Democracy Now!:
In New York state, four people were arrested Saturday protesting the construction of Spectra Energy’s AIM pipeline. The pipeline is slated to carry fracked gas only hundreds of feet from the aging Indian Point nucl…
As posted at Riverkeeper’s website:
Contact: Cliff Weathers, Director of Communications, (914) 478-4501 ext. 239, cweathers@riverkeeper.org
Riverkeeper President Paul Gallay issued this statement regarding today’s NYS Court of Appeals ruling on …
The U.S. Department of Energy oversees U.S. nuclear weapons policies (under such divisions as National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), Environmental Management (EM), Office of Nuclear Energy (ONE), etc.). As reported by Politico, President-elec…
Continue readingAs reported by Democracy Now! during its news headlines:
Donald Trump has chosen Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions to be attorney general. Sessions is a former prosecutor who was elected to the Senate in 1996. As a senator, he’s consistently suppor…
As reported by Democracy Now! during its news headlines:
Donald Trump has chosen Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions to be attorney general. Sessions is a former prosecutor who was elected to the Senate in 1996. As a senator, he’s consistently suppor…
As reported by Politico:
At least three lobbyists have left President-elect Donald Trump’s presidential transition operation after the team imposed a new ethics policy that would have required them to drop all their clients.
CGCN’s Michael Catanza…
Continue readingI first “met” Steve about 20 years ago, when he had published his research on the previously unrecognized health impacts of the Three Mile Island nuclear accident. One of my early forays into radioactivity’s impact on human health was helping to write…
Continue readingA collaborative effort of Beyond Nuclear and the People’s Action for Clean Energy (PACE) in Hartford, CT honors our organizations two beloved colleagues with the creation of the Judi and Lou Friedman Legacy Award to support the work of young peop…
Continue readingPOLICY: A six-hour hearing Wednesday over a proposed massive energy bill in Illinois leaves clean energy groups divided due to the complex and vast mosaic of interests at play. (As reported by Kari Lydersen at Midwest Energy News).
Nuclear E…
Political cartoon by Tom EngelhardtThe President-Elect Donald J. Trump parade of bad nuclear ideas has already begun. Bloomberg News reports that “Trump advisors eye reviving Nevada nuclear waste dump.”
Over the past 30 years, since the “Screw Nevada b…
Investigative reporter Frank Fraboni of ABC 13 News/WLOS in Western North Carolina has filed the following reports, regarding unprecedented shipments of highly radioactive liquid waste from Chalk River Nuclear Lab, Ontario, Canada to Savannah River …
Continue readingHost Alex Smith of Radio EcoShock interviewed Beyond Nuclear’s Radioactive Waste Specialist, Kevin Kamps, re: the proposal for so-called “centralized interim storage” of commercial irradiated nuclear fuel at Waste Control Specialists, LLC (WCS) i…
Continue readingArnie GundersenArnie Gundersen, Chief Engineer at Fairewinds Energy Education, has published an article at Truthout: “Nuclear Power Is Not ‘Green Energy’: It Is a Fount of Atomic Waste.”
Gundersen serves as expert witness for Beyond Nuclear, in both it…
“Burning money” graphic art by Gene Case, Avening AngelsTom Henry of the Toledo Blade has Tweeted out his column on the ratepayer-funded bailout, now approved by the State of Ohio — to the tune of $132.5 million per year — of FirstEnergy Nuclear’s da…
Continue readingNuclear power is fizzling.
So begins a Wall Street Journal op-ed debate entitled “Is Nuclear Power Vital to Hitting CO2 Emissions Targets?”
Dr. Michael Dorsey, a director on the Sierra Club National Board, contributed the anti-nuclear, “NO: Nuclear Isn…
On Thurs., Nov. 10 from 8-9:30 PM Eastern, presenters from Beyond Nuclear, Institute for Energy and Environmental Research, Sustainable Energy & Economic Development Coalition, and Nuclear Information and Resource Service, will lead a Webinar fo…
Continue readingShortly before he died, our board chair, Lou Friedman, sent along a card with a secular adaptation of the famous Niebuhr quote: “Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom …
Continue reading“Burning money” image, by Gene Case of Avenging Angels, was featured on The Nation’s 2003 cover regarding the “Nuclear Power Relapse”Tim Judson, executive director of Nuclear Information and Resource Service (NIRS), has published a report entitled “Too…
Continue readingIn the case of BEYOND NUCLEAR, et al., Plaintiffs, v. U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY [DOE], et al., Defendants, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has filed, on behalf of DOE, a DEFENDANTS’ MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT.
DOJ and DOE are trying to get …
As reported by Tampa Bay Times columnist John Romano, in a column entitled “Did I mention that Amendment 1 is a no-good, dirty scam?”. Thanks to Scott Stapf of the Hastings Group for Tweeting it out.
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