As referenced on our Just the Facts page, a series of articles using in some cases identical, and often near-identical, message points have appeared in publications across the country. Clearly pulled from a nuclear industry handout, we’re calling them …
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An article in the MIT Technology Review, asserted that a new, improved reactor fuel (pictured) might be able to off-set the obvious expense of nuclear energy which is also too slow to address climate change. The author’s lead — “slowing climate change…
Continue readingAtomic reactors and their electrical transmission lines are inextricably interlinked, yet NRC staff has failed to undertake a NEPA review of the proposed new Fermi 3 transmission line corridor’s environmental impacts.The environmental coalition interve…
Continue readingHarvey Wasserman, author of “Solartopia”Beyond Nuclear’s Cindy Folkers and Kevin Kamps, along with David Kraft of Nuclear Energy Information Service in Chicago, appeared on Harvey Wasserman’s (photo, left) “Green Power and Wellness” radio program on Se…
Continue readingChris Williams speaking at Nuclear-Free, Carbon-Free Contingent of the People’s Climate March in New York City on Sept. 21stChris Williams (photo, left), the chairman of the board of directors of Nuclear Information and Resource Service (NIRS), and a…
Continue readingDiane CurranAs reported by a coalition press release, 17 groups engaged in interventions against 23 old and new reactors have filed new contentions with U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) Atomic Safety and Licensing Board (ASLB) panels. The conte…
Continue readingOntario Power Generation proposes to bury “low” and “intermediate” level radioactive wastes from 20 reactors across the province at its Bruce Nuclear Generating Station on the Lake Huron shore. The Great Lakes comprise 95% of North America’s surface fr…
Continue readingReports Reuters: “Japan will not restart closed-down nuclear plants “unless safety is restored 100 percent,” Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Monday.” But what will this really mean and how will 100% safety be guaranteed, a virtually impossible standa…
Continue readingBetween 300,000 and 400,000 people marched in New York City on September 21 in the largest climate rally in history. The Peoples Climate March included a contingent that specifically drew attention to why nuclear power cannot address climate change. Th…
Continue readingBeyond Nuclear’s Kevin Kamps (wearing yellow “Nuclear Power? No Thanks! flag) and PSR national board member Alfred Meyer. Photo by Harvey Wasserman.Beyond Nuclear’s Radioactive Waste Watchdog, Kevin Kamps, took part in the Nuclear-Free, Carbon-Free Con…
Continue readingNRC file photo of Fermi 2Beyond Nuclear, Citizens Environment Alliance of Southwestern Ontario, and Don’t Waste Michigan, in coalition opposing Detroit Edison’s application for a 20-year license extension at Fermi 2 on the Lake Erie shore in southeast …
Continue readingAs reported by the Associated Press, on the very day that the Canadian federal Environmental Assessment Joint Review Panel hearings ended, a U.S. Senate resolution was introduced in opposition to the proposed Ontario Power Generation Great Lakes shor…
Continue readingWorld leaders are coming to New York City next week for a UN summit on the climate crisis. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon is urging governments to support an ambitious global agreement to dramatically reduce global warming pollution.
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Writing this week in The Ecologist, Ralph Nader points out that “nuclear power exists for one reason only — government support.
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“So if you go to work at the NEI and you read about the absence of any permanent…
The UN is looking to include nuclear energy as part of its Sustainable Development Goals. Jeffrey Sachs, who leads the science panel for UN Secretary General, Ban Ki Moon, has presented a report this month to the General Assembly of the UN, whic…
The Davis-Besse Shield Building exterior whitewashing of August to October, 2012, applied 40 years too lateOn September 8, 2014, environmental coalition attorney Terry Lodge of Toledo filed a supplement/amendment to a contention regarding FirstEnergy N…
Continue reading“A group of parents and children who were residing in Fukushima Prefecture when the nuclear disaster unfolded in March 2011 is suing the central and prefectural governments for failing to take sufficient steps to protect children from radiation e…
Continue readingThe radioactive waste dump would be located less than a mile from the Lake Huron shore, surrounded by the Bruce Nuclear Generating Station, one of the biggest nuclear power plants in the worldThe group Stop the Great Lakes Nuclear Dump has run a pow…
Continue readingAn NRC inspector examines severe cracking in the Davis-Besse Shield Building shortly ater they were first revealed on Oct. 11, 2011. NRC file photo.Terry Lodge, Toledo-based attorney for an environmental coalition (including Beyond Nuclear) resisti…
Continue readingPediatrician Dr. Alex Rosen”Nuclear bomb tests contaminate soils, while nuclear accidents and X-rays are a direct threat to our health. At a world summit this week, doctors called for more protection and awareness…
“It was a central theme at this…
A warning by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s top on-site safety inspector at California’s Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant concealed within NRC for more than a year has gone public. In July 2013, Michael Peck, the agency’s …
Continue readingU.S. Rep. Dan Kildee (D-MI)As reported by the Macomb Daily:
“On a ship moored along the banks of the Saginaw River, U.S. Rep. Dan Kildee will reveal a major plan to protect the Great Lakes from a proposed nuclear waste facility on the Canadian shores…
TEPCO has been ordered to pay Mikio Watanabe (pictured) nearly 500,000 US dollars in compensation for the suicide of his wife, Hamako (58 years), after they were forced to leave their home and livelihoods in Kawamata town (40 km from the reactors) d…
Continue readingKarl GrossmanKarl Grossman (photo, left) has published an article at Enformable about a “Differing Professional Opinion” filed by Dr. Michael Peck, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s (NRC) top on-site inspector at Pacific Gas & Electric’s twi…
Continue readingKarl GrossmanKarl Grossman (photo, left) has published an article at Enformable about a “Differing Professional Opinion” filed by Dr. Michael Peck, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s (NRC) top on-site inspector at Pacific Gas & Electric’s twi…
Continue readingEnvironmental coalition members from the Crabshell Alliance, Sierra Club Nuclear-Free Campaign, NIRS, PSR, NEIS, and Public Citizen “just say NO!” at the NRC HQ nuke waste con game public comment meeting on 11/14/13 in Rockville, MD. Photo credit …
Continue readingDon’t Waste Michigan board members Michael Keegan, Alice Hirt, and Kevin Kamps call for Palisades’ permanent shutdown at the 2000 Nuclear-Free Great Lakes Action Camp, on the Lake Michigan beach at Van Buren State Park, with the atomic reactor’s co…
Continue readingNRC Commissioner William Magwood IV34 groups, including Beyond Nuclear, have written a letter to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s Chairman, Allison Macfarlane, as well as NRC Commissioners Christine Svinicki and William Ostendorff, urging them …
Continue readingNRC file photo of Fermi 2Multiple environmental groups have met an arbitrarily short, 11:59pm Eastern deadline, and officially intervened against the application by DTE (Detroit Edison) to extend the operating license at its Fermi 2 atomic reactor (pho…
Continue reading“Nuclear Illinois” map produced by NEISAs reported by the Chicago Tribune:
“Exelon has asked the Environmental Protection Agency to change its proposed emissions rules to ensure that all of its nuclear power plants and other nuclear facilities across t…
Aerial image of Vogtle nuclear power plant in GA, showing the operational Units 1 and 2, as well as the construction site for the proposed Units 3 and 4. Photo credit: High Flyer.We told them so. As the environmental movement warned 14 years ago, w…
Continue readingAlthough atomic reactors and their transmission lines are inextricably interconnected, NRC staff failed to include them in its FEIS for the proposed new Fermi 3 reactor, a violation of NEPAOn Aug. 7th, Terry Lodge, Toledo-based attorney for the environ…
Continue readingAs reported in Beyond Nuclear’s weekly email bulletin on June 5th, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) unveiled President Obama’s proposal to curb greenhouse gas emissions causing the climate crisis. Most unfortunately, the Obama administrat…
Continue readingThe solar-powered Rosetta space probe made a successful rendezvous this week with a comet more than 300 million miles from the Sun — a distance at which nuclear-proponents have for decades insisted solar energy would never work; that nuclear power was…
Continue readingCandles and paper lanterns float on the Motoyasu River in front of the Atomic Bomb Dome at the Peace Memorial Park, in memory of the victims of the bomb on the 63rd anniversary of the Hiroshima bomb on August 6, 2008 in Hiroshima, Japan.Commemorations …
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After nearly 40 years, EPA is considering updating its radiation exposure standards for regularly operating nuclear facilities. Human health, not the financial health of the nuclear industry, should drive any changes that EPA makes. These…
Entergy Nuclear’s “dirty dozen” atomic reactors across the U.S.As reported by the New Orleans Times-Picayune, for the second year in a row, Entergy has announced major job cuts across its nuclear fleet of a “dirty dozen” atomic reactors nationwide. The…
Continue readingThe following letter to the editor has just appeared in the New York Times:
To the Editor:
“Hearings on Water Permits for Indian Pt.” (news article, July 23) includes a suggestion that the Indian Point nuclear facility is critical to kee…
Beyond Nuclear’s Kevin Kamps appeared on Thom Hartmann’s “The Big Picture” television program on Thursday, July 31st. Thom asked Kevin about a recent scientific study documenting radioactive cesium contamination of the muscle tissue of monkeys who inha…
Continue readingAlthough atomic reactors and their transmission lines are inextricably interconnected, NRC failed to include them in its Fermi 3 FEISAn environmental coalition, including Beyond Nuclear, has warned for two and a half years, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory …
Continue readingAn NRC inspector visually examines severe cracking in the Davis-Besse Shield Building, Oct., 2011In a ruling on July 25th, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s (NRC) Atomic Safety and Licensing Board (ASLB) panel at Davis-Besse, OH rejected an envi…
Continue readingWhile Beyond Nuclear continues its review and analysis of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) recently released report on the “Lessons Learned From The Fukushima Nuclear Accident For Improving Safety Of U.S. Nuclear Plants” it must be no…
Continue readingDr. Helen Caldicott, Beyond Nuclear’s Founding PresidentTeaching for Change Bookstore at Busboys and Poets welcomes Helen Caldicott, editor of the new book,
Crisis Without End: The Medical and Ecological Consequences of the Fukushima Nuclear …
NRC Commissioner William Magwood IVThe environmental coalition, including Beyond Nuclear, also requests a U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) Office of Inspector General (OIG) investigation of Commissioner William Magwood IV’s (photo, left) …
Continue reading35 years ago on July 16, likely the worst and certainly most forgotten U.S. nuclear accident happened.
On July 16, 1979, just 14 weeks after the Three Mile Island reactor accident, and just 34 years to the day after the Trinity atomic test, the smal…
NRC Commissioner William Magwood IVIn response to a demand made last month by attorneys Diane Curran and Mindy Goldstein on behalf of 34 groups, including Beyond Nuclear, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commissioner (NRC) William Magwood IV (photo, left) has r…
Continue readingPhoto by Beth KemlerBeyond Nuclear staff attended the rally in Washington D.C. on Sunday, July 13th against the Cove Point LNG (liquefied natural gas) expansion proposal, alongside organizing groups such as CCAN (Chesapeake Climate Action Network) and …
Continue readingA 6.8 M earthquake was registered at 4:22 Japan Standard Time, 84 miles off the coast of the shutdown Fukushima Dai-Ni nuclear power station (not to be confused with the wrecked and melted Fukushima Dai-ichi reactor site.) Fortunately the Dai-Ni reacto…
Continue readingAn Eastern Fox Snake, a threatened indigenous constrictor, but one of numerous endangered or threatened species that could well inhabit Fermi 3’s proposed transmission line corridor.In a ruling issued on July 7th, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission…
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