Instead of hiring additional staff to inspect and maintain the nation’s nuclear power plants as more workers catch the COVID-19 novel coronavirus, the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) and the plants it supervises are pushing healthy wo…

From politico.com:
DOE STAFFER DIES FROM CORONAVIRUS: An Energy Department employee who worked at the agency’s Washington headquarters has died after contracting the novel coronavirus, E&E News reports. The department als…

Thank you to Scott Stapf of the Hastings Group for this tweet:
https://twitter.com/stapf/status/1247554886545354753
Here we have more shameless exploitation by the nuclear industry and its minions of the coronavirus pandemic. Thanks for showing us yo…

So wrote the State of Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection Secretary, Patrick McDonnell, to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Chairwoman, Kristine Svinicki. The DEP secretary wrote the NRC chair expressing many concerns regarding…

Two fires — one now extinguished, the other still burning — were deliberately set by an individual who said he set grass alight “for fun.” The man was apprehended but the larger fire still burning has spread to 250 acres of forest, and has increased …

As reported by Nuclear Intelligence Weekly (re-posted with permission).
The article quotes Beyond Nuclear:
Activists are concerned the agency’s approach to the Covid-19 crisis has left the door wide open for regulatory rollbacks that could compromise…

As reported by TheReporterOnline.Com.

Beyond Nuclear was honored and privileged to join a coalition of more than 40 environmental and anti-nuclear organizations across the country, led by Natural Resources Defense Council, in submitting this powerful public comment to the U.S. Department o…

As reported by The Hill.
Not mentioned in this article though — and likely not mentioned in any of the current media coverage of the Comfort’s deployment to New York City — is that fact that, for at least a part of its life, the Comfort was anchored …

A message from Dave Lochbaum, formerly of UCS, who is serving as an expert witness in Beyond Nuclear’s intervention against the 80-year operations license at Peach Bottom nuclear power plant in PA:
Good Day:
Some thoughts on the potential impact of COV…

As reported by Public News Service.

Global wave and tidal stream energy production has risen tenfold over the last decade, reflecting global efforts to identify commercialisation pathways for ocean energy technologies, according to a new report, says the Maritime Journal.
Ocean Energy Sy…

See the EPA’s official announcement, here.
See news coverage by The Hill, here: “EPA suspends enforcement of environmental laws amid coronavirus.”
The environmental movement must respond forcefully to this major attack by the Trump administration on th…

As reported by the New Times of San Luis Obispo, CA.

NRC to relax reactor oversight and enforcement amid rising pandemic
On March 20, 2020, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) convened the first

As reported by the New York Times.

NRC expects to issue guidelines this week on reactor staffing

Environmental groups concerned about violating safety rules

As reported by Bloomberg.
The article quotes Beyond Nuclear:
The prospect that reactor operators may be permitted t…

As reported by Carolina Public Press:
Kevin Kamps of the organization Beyond Nuclear, a watchdog organization based in Maryland that advocates for abandoning nuclear power, participated in the meeting and told CPP that “most of the content of …

As reported by Reuters and published in the New York Times.
The article reports:
Maria Korsnick, president of the Nuclear Energy Institute, said that some of the nation’s nearly 60 nuclear power plants are also “considering measures to is…

Nuclear worker, Sumio Konno, delivers a powerful message about the nuclear reality in Japan, nine years after the Fukushima nuclear disaster. Courtesy of the Manhattan Project for a Nuclear-Free World.

As reported by Reuters.

As reported by the New York Times on March 17, 2020 in an article entitled “U.S. Virus Plan Anticipates 18-Month Pandemic and Widespread Shortages,” President Trump is considering invoking the Defense Production Act of 1950 to address the crisis.
Less …

Thank you to Scott Stapf of the Hastings Group, whose tweet points to this good news:
US: Renewables to rise above coal, nuclear says FERC — http://ow.ly/GI8a30qqCNH

As reported by Reuters.

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has published the Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) for the Holtec International/Eddy-Lea Energy Alliance irradiated nuclear fuel consolidated interim storage facility (CISF) in New Mexico. …