Programming from the full Beyond Nuclear (no relation, but a good choice of title) conference from Helensburgh, Scotland is now available on line.

Watch the morning session on nuclear power here: https://vimeo.com/507578948/73067caed5
Watch the aft…

A new, compelling video from Nuclear Energy Information Service.

The Nuclear Power Elephant In The Renewable Energy Room

Just under 15 minutes on how nuclear power — far from presenting a solution — has actually contributed to climate change. In 1952 the US government was advised to go solar. Instead, we got …

Margaret Harrington, host of “Nuclear Free Future Conversation,” at a Hiroshima/Nagasaki atomic bombing commemoration eventDescription
Kevin Kamps, Nuclear Waste Watchdog of Beyond Nuclear, talks with host Margaret Harrington [photo, left] about a mor…

On January 22, the New York Attorney General, Letitia James (photo, above), filed suit at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, against the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, challenging the license transfer of Indian Point (IP) nuclear…

At a January 21 U.S. Senate confirmation hearing for President Biden’s nominee to lead the Transportation Department, former South Bend, Indiana mayor and presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg, Jacky Rosen (Democrat-Nevada) expressed strong opposi…

Horizon, the British subsidiary of Hitachi, Japan, has formally submitted its Withdrawal of Application for a planned two-reactor nuclear power plant in North Wales. In a letter dated January 27, Horizon chief, Duncan Hawthorne, whose company is being…

The hands of the Doomsday Clock did not move today as the Science and Security Board of The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists made their annual announcement. In a call to leaders and citizens of the world entitled, “This is your COVID wake-up call: It…

The Nuclear Free Takoma Park Committee (Takoma Park has been a nuclear-free city since 1983), Beyond Nuclear and Nuclear Information and Resource Service (both NGOs are headquartered in Takoma Park) were all represented outside Takoma Park city hall to…

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The ground-breaking Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) enters into force today, January 22. The TPNW bans any country party to the treaty from developing, testing, producing, acquiring, possessing, stockpiling, using or threatening to…

Karl GrossmanKarl Grossman’s piece on the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission holding a “public meeting” on letting nuclear power plants run for 100 years.
Karl is an investigative journalist, author, and board member of Beyond Nuclear.

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LAS VEGAS, NEVADA
January 22, 2021
 
The Native Community Action Council is celebrating the Treaty on Pro…

Lake Huron’s shorelineLast year, Ontario Power Generation (OPG) officially cancelled its plans to build a “Deep Geologic Repository” (DGR) for 20 provincial reactors’ so-called “low” and “intermediate” level radioactive wastes, less than a mile from L…

Trump’s actions on this one issue outweigh everything else, yet it’s received less attention than many of his tweets.
As reported by The Intercept.

Trump alone, a deranged demagogue, has the power to launch US nuclear weapons. That must change. No one person should have that capacity, least of all a tyrant. But it’s also a reminder of the folly of possessing nuclear weapons at all. As the Treaty o…

Carrie Dann on her land in 1993, as posted by the Right Livelihood FoundationA giant, a living legend, of Indigenous rights activism and leadership, has passed on. It is with sad hearts that we share the news that Western Shoshone elder Carrie Dann …

A sweeping historic mural by Noel Marquez, including a panel about WIPP (lower left)It is with a very heavy heart that we share the news of the passing on of a dear friend and colleague, Noel Marquez, from Lake Arthur, New Mexico. Noel passed on on …

Photo of Rashid Alimov, taken from his own Facebook Page.Rashid Alimov, a 40-year old Greenpeace Russia campaigner and journalist, has died due to covid-19, shocking and saddening the Russian anti-nuclear movement and colleagues across the world….

The flag of Ohio, superimposed on a map of the state.House Bill 104, the “ANTHEM Act” (“Advanced Nuclear Technology Helping Energize Mankind”), appears to have been stopped — for now — in the Ohio state legislature’s lame duck session, according t…

Jennifer M. Granholm’s official portrait was unveiled in the state Capitol where it will hang in the Gallery of the Governors. The portrait features the governor amid symbols that tell the story of her administration’s efforts to diversify Michigan’s e…

“Burning Money” image by Gene Case/Avening Angels. Used with permission. The image graced the cover of The Nation magazine in 2003, accompanying a feature article about the nuclear power relapse by Christian Parenti.NUCLEAR CHRISTMAS TREE BILL

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Thom HartmannBeyond Nuclear’s radioactive waste specialist, Kevin Kamps, was on the Thom Hartmann Show for a full hour (from 2-3pm Eastern) on Monday, December 21st. In the following four-minute segment, Thom and Kevin discuss nukes in space, highli…

Today President-elect Joe Biden nominated New Mexico Congresswoman Deb Haaland to serve as Secretary of the Interior. If confirmed, Ms. Haaland would be the first Native American Interior Secretary. The Department of the Interior oversees the country&r…