Congress may not authorize funding for Trump’s new dangerous plaything, the US Space Force, but it’s still gobbling up millions of dollars while bases are renamed, flags and uniforms are designed and Trump threatens total dominance in space. Linda Pent…
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The application to build a new UK nuclear power station has been accepted for examination by the planning inspectorate. Plans for the Sizewell C plant on the Suffolk coast were put forward by EDF Energy after bei…
See the Alliance for Nuclear Accountability (ANA) letter, regarding Fiscal Year 2021 funding to more quickly detonate a nuclear weapons test, addressed to Congressional Chairs and Ranking Members of Armed Services Committees, and Appropriations Energy …
Continue readingAs reported by WBUR.
Holtec International, owner of the Pilgrim Nuclear Plant, and conducting its decommissioning and high-level radioactive waste management, has also proposed a highly controversial consolidated interim storage facility for commercial…
“An Ontario nuclear power generating company has officially dropped its pursuit of a deep underground storage facility for low- to intermediate-level radioactive waste within a half-mile of Lake Huron,” writes the Detroit Free Press. The withdrawal of …
Continue readingAs reported by the Carlsbad Current Argus:
Nuclear waste site debated during federal hearing
State of New Mexico says nuclear waste project poses disproportionate risk, locals supportive
The draft environmental impact statement iss…
Continue readingLacey Officials, Oyster Creek Generating Station Owners Disagree on Land Use Oversight
As reported by TheSandpaper.net.
The company involved in this legal dispute, Holtec International, is also proposing a highly controversial consolidated interim st…
As reported by the Richard Eeds Show on KTRC in Santa Fe, NM. Listen to the 13-minute audio recording, here.
See the Don’t Waste Michigan, et al., press release.
The national grassroots environmental coalition includes the following seven organization…
News, #energy, #environment, #nuclear, #regulation, #safety
We continue our regular segment, Beyond Nuclear, where we look at nuclear issues, including weapons, energy, waste, and the future of nuclear technology in the United States. Kevin Kamps, …
Continue readingThe U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) will conduct a public meeting via webinar soliciting comments on a draft Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for Holtec International’s (Holtec) proposed Consolidate…
Continue readingNEWS FROM BEYOND NUCLEAR For immediate release, June 22, 2020
Nuclear Power Safety Concerns in Michigan amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic
Three-Dozen Groups and 62 Individuals Write Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer and Li…
Continue readingWhat is it like to resist the nuclear sector in Russia? Russian citizens who have protested Rosatom have been arrested, their homes ransacked, listed as “foreign agents” and even forced to flee into exile overseas. Their new report — from the Russian …
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Wednesday’s regular segment, Beyond Nuclear, is about nuclear issues, including weapons, energy, waste, and the future of nuclear technology in the United States. Kevin Kamps, the Ra…
Continue readingDo Black Live Matter to the nuclear power industry? We look at examples of discrimination against African American communities. Read our article on Beyond Nuclear International on this topic.
Continue readingSystemic racism in the nuclear industrial complex has endured for decades. Native Americans mined uranium without protection. The Nevada atomic tests irradiated downwinders, many of them minorities. Atomic bombs were dropped on Japan, not Germany. The …
Continue readingBeyond Nuclear on Solartopia Green Power and Wellness House, hosted by Harvey Wasserman:
ELECTION THEFT FROM GEORGIA TO DICTATORSHIP &
SHUTTING INDIAN POINT & ALL OTHER NUKE REACTORS
We start with the election fiasco in Georgia that is me…
Wednesday’s regular segment, Beyond Nuclear, is about nuclear issues, including weapons, energy, waste, and the future of nuclear technology in the United States. Kevin Kamps, the Radioactive Waste Watchdog at the organization Beyond Nuclear, …
Continue readingFrom The Nuclear Resister:
A revered elder of the American anti-war movement was sentenced on Monday, June 8 to time served for her part with six other Catholic peace activists in the April 4, 2018 Kings Bay Plowshares nonviolent direct action for nucl…
Appeal to 2nd highest court against NM dump
Today, Beyond Nuclear’s legal counsel, Diane Curran of Washington, D.C., and Mindy Goldstein of Atlanta, GA, initiated a lawsuit at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (logo, ab…
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Wednesday’s regular segment, Beyond Nuclear, is about nuclear…
Continue readingBeyond Nuclear today published its newest handbook — The U.S. Space Force and the dangers of nuclear power and nuclear was in space — the latest in its series, The Case Against Nuclear Power: Facts and Arguments from A-Z.
Beyond Nuclear als…
Updated – Wednesday, May 27, 2020
Independent – New nuclear power plant planned for Suffolk coast would be devastating for wildlife – Chris Baynes
As posted at the State of Nevada Agency for Nuclear Projects’ “What’s News” website page.
Continue readingWednesday’s regular segment, Beyond Nuclear, is about nuclear issues, including weapons, energy, waste, and the future of nuclear technology in the United States. Kevin Kamps, the Radioactive Waste Watchdog at the organization Beyond Nu…
Continue readingPaul Gunter and Linda Pentz Gunter authored an oped published by the Philadelphia Inquirer today which takes the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission to task for, on the one hand, allowing nuclear plant owners to avoid essential safety checks, to extend …
Continue readingAbout 100 people at the construction site of a controversial nuclear power plant in Belarus have become infected with the coronavirus, the head of Rosatom, Russia’s nuclear corporation, has said in a new video address to the company’s em…
Continue readingAs reported by the Washington Post.
The Nevada Nuclear Security Site, formerly called the Nevada Test Site, is just 65 miles northwest of Las Vegas. It is located on Western Shoshone Indian land, as affirmed by the Treaty of Ruby Valley of 1863, as sig…
Beyond Nuclear today issued a press release calling on the NRC and FEMA to fulfill their emergency preparedness obligations pertaining to evacuations due to a nuclear accident during a pandemic. Beyond Nuclear also reiterated its demand that potassium …
Continue readingPresident Trump’s decision, the third major retreat from arms control agreements, will be viewed as evidence that he also plans an exit from the last major weapons treaty with Russia: New START.
As reported by the New York Times.
The Washingt…
Wednesday’s regular segment, Beyond Nuclear, is about nuclear issues, including weapons, energy, waste, and the future of nuclear technology in the United States. Kevin Kamps, the Radioactive Waste Watchdog at the organization Beyond Nu…
Continue readingApocalypse will be highly likely. Artificial intelligence is not going to save us. These weapons need to be outlawed, not produced and purchased en masse.
As reported by Karl Grossman, and published in Nation of Change.
Karl Grossman is a Beyond N…
The Japanese government intends to release 1.2 million cubic meters of water contaminated with radioiodine, radiocesium, radiostrontium and tritium into the ocean. This water, which exceeds emission concentration standards, has been accumulating since …
Continue readingKarl GrossmanKarl Grossman, Beyond Nuclear board of directors member and investigative journalist, has appeared on “Rising Up with Sonali,” the widely aired radio and TV program.
Continue readingNRC file photo of the Fermi 2 atomic reactor, on the Lake Erie shore in Frenchtown Township, Monroe County, MichiganAs reported by Tom Henry in the the Toledo Blade.
The article quotes David Lochbaum, who currently serves Beyond Nuclear as an expert wi…
S. David Freeman, a fierce and tireless advocate for clean air, renewable energy, and public power, passed away of a heart attack on May 12. He was 94.
Freeman, son of an umbrella repairman, obtained degrees in engineering and law, eventually becoming …
A scoop by reporter Dave Battagello, published in the Windsor Star in Ontario, Canada.
As the article reports:
Fermi 2 sits across Lake Erie about 10 km [6.2 miles] away from Amherstburg which would be impacted should any incident occur, along with ar…
In this edition of The Update, we remember those who suffered due to atomic testing around the world, and focus on a new 22-minute documentary — The Atomic Soldiers — featuring interviews with US military personnel forced to witness the atomic blasts…
Continue reading“Nuclear-Free Future” host Margaret HarringtonA “Nuclear-Free Future” interview by host Margaret Harrington (photo, left) at Channel 17/Town Meeting TV in Burlington, VT, with Beyond Nuclear’s radioactive waste specialist Kevin Kamps. (Recorded on May …
Continue readingBeyond Nuclear board member, Karl Grossman, (pictured above during the podcast) was a special guest this week on Libbe HaLevy’s Nuclear Hotseat podcast. Listen here. And here is what the show says about this week’s guest:
Nuclear Baloney – that&…
Continue readingAs reported by E&E News.
Continue readingIn this segment of By Any Means Necessary, hosts Sean Blackmon and Jacquie Luqman are joined by Kevin Kamps, Radioactive Waste watchdog at Beyond Nuclear, to talk about the Trump administration’s new attempts to deregulate uranium mining amid the pa…
Continue readingThe Japanese government intends to release 1.2 million cubic meters of water contaminated with radioiodine, radiocesium, radiostrontium and tritium into the ocean. This water, which exceeds emission concentration standards, has been accumulating s…
Continue readingWednesday’s regular segment, Beyond Nuclear, is about nuclear issues, including weapons, energy, waste, and the future of nuclear technology in the United States. Kevin Kamps, the Radioactive Waste Watchdog at the organization Beyond Nucle…
Continue readingSee a sample script for contacting your Members of Congress, to urge they demand public comment meetings in your state/congressional district (once safe to do so, post-pandemic), re: the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s Draft Environmental Impact S…
Continue readingThe Republican-controlled Nuclear Regulatory Commission has announced that it will move forward with temporary high-level nuclear waste storage in New Mexico, despite hazards of transportation and failure to have a long-term solution. Kevin Kamps fr…
Continue readingThe White House is using the COVID-19 pandemic as a reason to propose relaxing environmental safeguards on uranium mining, which could open a mine near the Grand Canyon.
See the NRDC Action Fund blog.
Cook nuclear power plant, Bridgman, MI, Lake Michigan shore. NRC file photo.[Cook Unit 2 in Bridgman, MI, on the Lake Michigan shore, went from 100% power level to 0% power level within just several hours, due to this occurrence/event.]
See Michael K…
As reported by E&E News.
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