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As if the idea of a floating nuclear power plant wasn’t insanity enough — read this week’s news of a possible fire on board a Russian one under construction — there is also a plutonium cargo under sail. Two heavily armed British gunshi…
Continue readingIn the midst of an ominous ICBM missile launch by North Korea, negotiations on a nuclear weapons prohibition treaty are set to conclude this Friday at the UN in New York. They follow a UN resolution adopted in October 2016 and approved by 123…
Continue readingThe Tennessee Valley Authority says it wants to develope the decades-old small modular reactor concept at the Oak Ridge laboratory (pictured). The Southern Alliance of Clean Energy (SACE) is among the groups opposing this. “We are concerned that billio…
Continue readingWrites John Tierney, executive director of the Council for a Livable World, the the defense authorization bill soon under consideration in the U.S. House is a disaster for safety, security and the economy. Worse yet, “The Chairman of the House of…
Continue readingBeyond Nuclear joined with a 50-group environmental coalition, spearheaded by Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), to urge members of the U.S. House of Represenatives Energy & Commerce Committee to vote against the latest incarnation of the Sc…
Continue readingA Delaware federal judge on Wednesday blocked the $367 million merger of EnergySolutions Inc. and Waste Control Specialists LLC, siding with the U.S. Department of Justice in the government’s bid to enjoin the deal on antitrust grounds. [This …
Continue readingBeyond Nuclear is asking the U.S. Nuclear Regulator Commission (NRC) to verify that a pressure vessel head installed in the now closed Crystal River nuclear reactor in Florida came from the controversial Creusot Forge in France, currently under investi…
Continue readingA former investor in nuclear power plants predicts that every planned new UK nuclear power plant will get canceled except Hinkley C and even that one is hanging by a thread. In a Reuters article that appeared in the New York Times on June 19,…
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Continue readingThe collapse and bankruptcy of the Westinghouse electric company has already thrown its Japanese parent company, Toshiba into a financial downward spriral. Now another Japanese company, Hitachi, is looking to escape the extreme financial commitment to …
Continue readingAs explained in this short video from the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, the current so-called missile defense program is ineffective, unnecessary and exorbitantly expensive. But with nuclear sabres rattling in North Korea, some M…
Continue readingIn a submission to the Ontario Energy Board this week, the Canadian Manufacturers & Exporters (CME) association states that it is now convinced that “OPG’s plan to extend operations at Pickering is not economically feasible and, far fro…
Continue readingBeyond Nuclear has joined an initiative of the Multicultural Alliance for a Safe Environment (MASE) to campaign for justice and compensation for the uranium miners at the front end of the nuclear fuel chain. Currently, the 1990 Radiation Exposure and C…
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Continue readingBeyond Nuclear’s Radioactive Waste Watchdog, Kevin Kamps, presented at the 2017 Heartwood “Strong Roots!” forest protection council on Sat., May 27th.
Kevin’s talk was entitled “Head-On Collision: Chevron Deference Meets Mobile Chernobyl on Steroids.” …
As reported by Physics.
Continue readingThe Alliance for Nuclear Accountability (ANA) will honor an impressive line-up of individuals and organizations at its May 23, 2017 awards reception on Capitol Hill. This year’s winners are:
* Representative Ted Lieu — For leadership in in…
Transfer containers used to unload highly radioactive liquid waste from Canada may not provide adequate radiological shielding for workers at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina where the first shipment was recently unloaded. In a press release t…
Continue readingWritten by M.V. Ramana (also a Beyond Nuclear Advisory Board member) and Sajan Saini.
Continue readingOn May 9, Republican Nevada Senator Dean Heller, spoke out agains attempts to revive the canceled Yucca Mountain high-level radioactive waste dump in his state. “Yucca Mountain is dead,” he said.
“Last year, Las Vegas welcomed nearly 43 million v…
A tunnel at the Hanford Nuclear Site in Washington State collapsed today on top of railcars stored there that contain “mixed” radioactive waste, an accident that local watchdog group, Hanford Challenge, describes as a “crisis.”
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Efforts to quench on-going fire in Fukushima zone hampered by high radiation levels from 2011 nuclear disaster
Never over nuclear accident continues to spread radiation
TAKOMA PARK, MD, May 2, 2017 –A raging wildfire…
Beyond Nuclear board member, Lucas Hixson, co-founder of the Clean Futures Fund, is working to both study and re-home stray dogs living in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. The strays are descendants of dogs abandoned by their owners when the Chernobyl nuc…
Continue readingSecret plans to build new nuclear reactors in South Africa that were never subjected to an open, transparent and public process, have been quashed by a judge in Cape Town in a major victory for anti-nuclear and environmental groups there. David Fig, a …
Continue readingMargaret Harrington and co-host Ben Shulman-Reed, researcher with Fairewinds Energy Education, speak with Kevin Kamps, Nuclear Waste Watchdog with Beyond Nuclear, about nuclear escalation on “Nuclear Free Future,” an ongoing series on Channel 17/Town…
Continue readingAs reported by investigative journalist and Beyond Nuclear board member, Karl Grossman, and published at Enformable (founded and run by Beyond Nuclear board member Lucas Hixson):
Despite protests around the world, the Cassini space probe-contai…
Continue readingBe sure to count the toes! This political cartoon, by Jim Day in the Las Vegas Review Journal, marked the 2010 cancellation of the Yucca dump scheme by the Obama administration — 23 years after the “Screw Nevada” bill. The cartoon harkens back to “The…
Continue readingAs reported by Democracy Now!
Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha’s scientific research, and courage to make it immediately public, given the high stakes for the health of 9,000 Flint children — a large percentage of them children of color, as well as children …
As reported by Democracy Now!
Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha’s scientific research, and courage to make it immediately public, given the high stakes for the health of 9,000 Flint children — a large percentage of them children of color, as well as children …
As reported by Democracy Now!
Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha’s scientific research, and courage to make it immediately public, given the high stakes for the health of 9,000 Flint children — a large percentage of them children of color, as well as children …
As reported by Democracy Now!
Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha’s scientific research, and courage to make it immediately public, given the high stakes for the health of 9,000 Flint children — a large percentage of them children of color, as well as children …
Join NIRS & Beyond Nuclear for the Nuclear-Free, Carbon-Free Contingent at the People’s Climate March in Washington, D.C. this Saturday, April 29th, and at sister marches across the country! Please read on re: (1.) FINAL planning call Tues., …
Continue readingEPA is holding a public conference call on radiation exposure standards this coming Monday, April 24 from 11 AM to 2 PM EST, phone number (800) 305-3182 , ID# 8535873
This is in response to the Executive Order issued on February 24, 2017 on enfor…
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For Immediate Release, April 19, 2017
Contact: Kevin Kamps, Radioactive Waste Watchdog, Beyond Nuclear, (240) 462-3216; kevin@beyondnuclear.org
Beyond Nuclear Media Statement
re: Waste Control Specialists, LLC (WCS) request…
Join NIRS and Beyond Nuclear in the planning and carrying out of Nuclear-Free, Carbon-Free Contingents at the People’s Climate March in Washington, D.C. on Saturday, April 29th, and at sister marches across the country.
Take part in a planning call on …
The Clean Futures Fund, co-created by Beyond Nuclear Board member, Lucas Hixson, with Erik Kambarian, is working with Ukrainian partners to improve safe working conditions and long-term care for Chernobyl workers and individuals in the affected areas. …
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Storing nuclear waste at San Onofre: it’s only complicated if you can’t tell the difference between a shortboard and a longboard, and where each should be paddled out.
The Shortboard “Thin Can” VS Longboard “Thick Cask” Debate
Or let me put it to you this way so as to be perfectly clear.
YOU DON’T WANT NUCLEAR WASTE STORED IN THIN CANS ON THE BEACH AT SANO!
A “canister” OR “can” is like the ½ to ⅝ of an inch steel cans Edison has a permit for at San Onofre. A “cask” is a thick radwaste metal container up to 19 inches thick, this is an important distinction to make if we want to discuss safety at San Onofre from a factual point of view.
The Nuke Waste At Sano
The Issues From A Factual Point Of View
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This waste is onsite now, 3,600,000lbs of it.
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This waste has nowhere to go in the foreseeable future
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Edison has chosen thin walled cans over thick walled casks to store this radwaste, the NRC expects the waste to be here for 300 years.
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Each can would hold as much radiation as was released from the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, each can is only warrantied for 20 years.
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Edison promises these “Chernobyl Cans” won’t leak. Do you forget the 40 year rating of the replacement steam generators? They lasted less than one year before leaking radiation, Edison lied about that radiation leak into our community for days after the event.
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Each can would have no internal monitoring.
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A can would have no “defense in depth” or “multiple layers of failure”
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Cans crack from exposure to salt air and engine exhaust
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There is no approved way to test or repair cracks in these cans.
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A cracked can, can have no seismic rating and cannot be transported
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Each can would be on the beach, straddling an earthquake fault, in a tsunami zone,
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Surrounded by millions of people, and thousands of surfers.
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Why are you still reading this? Toss these cans in the trash.
Rescind the Coastal permit for this badly planned nuke dump on the beach at San Onofre.
Demand Thick Walled Metal Casks, Not Cans
Make anything purchased for San Onofre Nuclear Waste match the location that we find ourselves in, using the best thick-wall cask technology available in the world. Let this become the standard of waste management.
Demand Thick Walled Metal Casks, Not Cans
Make anything purchased for San Onofre Nuclear Waste match the location that we find ourselves in, using the best thick-wall cask technology available in the world. Let this become the standard of waste management.
Safety should be our only concern.
UPDATE the April 14th 2PM hearing has been CANCELLED.
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Storing Nuclear Waste At San Onofre: It’s only complicated if you are confused about the issues and don’t want to think about the facts. #SaveTrestles our very own #StandingRock
Aging Nuke Dumps On Fault Lines In Tsunami Hazard Zones = Fukushimas… Any Questions?
PLEASE Turn off a light for Fukushima USA / San Onofre
PLEASE Turn off a light for Fukushima USA / San Onofre
Potential radioactive waste transporation routes to WCS, TX. As Eddy-Lea, NM is close by, the routing to there would be very similar.The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has extended the deadline for public comments on the environmental scopi…
Continue readingBeyond Nuclear has today called for the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission to require all 17 U.S. reactors with Creusot parts to shut down for thorough and independently verified material testing for carbon content and enhanced inspections of these saf…
Continue readingPolitical cartoon by Jim Day that appeared in the Las Vegas Review Journal in 2010The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has extended the deadline for public comments on the environmental scoping of Waste Control Specialists’ proposed centralized…
Continue reading“Burning money” image by Gene Case of Avenging Angels. It was featured on the cover of the Nation magazine in 2003, accompanying an article by Christian Parenti about the nuclear power relapse.As reported by Southern Alliance for Clean Energy (SA…
Continue readingBeyond Nuclear was interviewed by Margaret Prescod on Sojourner Truth Radio on Pacifica. Here is the show summary:
Today, we commemorate Saturday’s 6th anniversary of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, the world’s worst nuclear accident since Ch…
Beyond Nuclear was interviewed by RT, regarding the ongoing Fukushima nuclear catastrophe, six years after it began (3/11/11 to 3/11/17).
Continue readingOn this sixth annual commemoration of the beginning of the ongoing Fukushima nuclear catastrophe, please sign this Greenpeace International petition to the Japanese government:Stand in solidarity — Defend the human rights of Fukushima survivors
Than…
Thom Hartmann hosted Beyond Nuclear on his radio program to discuss the ongoing Fukushima nuclear catastrophe, six years on (3/11/11-3/11/17). Thom and Beyond Nuclear’s Radioactive Waste Watchdog, Kevin Kamps, discussed the article by Beyond Nuclear…
Continue readingBeyond Nuclear joined Nuclear Information and Resource Service (NIRS) and Nuclear Energy Information Service (NEIS) on Harvey Wasserman’s radio show, Solartopia Green Power and Wellness Hour. Here is Harvey’s summary:
We greet three great expert act…
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: March 8, 2017 (International Women’s Day)
CONTACT: Cindy Folkers, Beyond Nuclear, 240.354.4314
Six years after Fukushima began, “normalizing” radiation exposure risks the he…
Letter to the Editor, Washington Post:
While the United States and Russia possess more than 90 percent of the world’s nuclear weapons, the fact that seven other nations have nuclear weapons, albeit in smaller quantities, is highly significant…
As reported by a Center for Biological Diversity (CBD) press release, Beyond Nuclear joined with CBD, the Endangered Species Coalition, Humane Society of the United States, and 276 other organizations, opposing the Western Governors’ Association’s…
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