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In New York state, four people were arrested Saturday protesting the construction of Spectra Energy’s AIM pipeline. The pipeline is slated to carry fracked gas only hundreds of feet from the aging Indian Point nucl…
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As posted at Riverkeeper’s website:
Contact: Cliff Weathers, Director of Communications, (914) 478-4501 ext. 239, cweathers@riverkeeper.org
Riverkeeper President Paul Gallay issued this statement regarding today’s NYS Court of Appeals ruling on …
The U.S. Department of Energy oversees U.S. nuclear weapons policies (under such divisions as National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), Environmental Management (EM), Office of Nuclear Energy (ONE), etc.). As reported by Politico, President-elec…
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Donald Trump has chosen Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions to be attorney general. Sessions is a former prosecutor who was elected to the Senate in 1996. As a senator, he’s consistently suppor…
As reported by Democracy Now! during its news headlines:
Donald Trump has chosen Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions to be attorney general. Sessions is a former prosecutor who was elected to the Senate in 1996. As a senator, he’s consistently suppor…
As reported by Politico:
At least three lobbyists have left President-elect Donald Trump’s presidential transition operation after the team imposed a new ethics policy that would have required them to drop all their clients.
CGCN’s Michael Catanza…
Continue readingI first “met” Steve about 20 years ago, when he had published his research on the previously unrecognized health impacts of the Three Mile Island nuclear accident. One of my early forays into radioactivity’s impact on human health was helping to write…
Continue readingA collaborative effort of Beyond Nuclear and the People’s Action for Clean Energy (PACE) in Hartford, CT honors our organizations two beloved colleagues with the creation of the Judi and Lou Friedman Legacy Award to support the work of young peop…
Continue readingPOLICY: A six-hour hearing Wednesday over a proposed massive energy bill in Illinois leaves clean energy groups divided due to the complex and vast mosaic of interests at play. (As reported by Kari Lydersen at Midwest Energy News).
Nuclear E…
Political cartoon by Tom EngelhardtThe President-Elect Donald J. Trump parade of bad nuclear ideas has already begun. Bloomberg News reports that “Trump advisors eye reviving Nevada nuclear waste dump.”
Over the past 30 years, since the “Screw Nevada b…
Investigative reporter Frank Fraboni of ABC 13 News/WLOS in Western North Carolina has filed the following reports, regarding unprecedented shipments of highly radioactive liquid waste from Chalk River Nuclear Lab, Ontario, Canada to Savannah River …
Continue readingHost Alex Smith of Radio EcoShock interviewed Beyond Nuclear’s Radioactive Waste Specialist, Kevin Kamps, re: the proposal for so-called “centralized interim storage” of commercial irradiated nuclear fuel at Waste Control Specialists, LLC (WCS) i…
Continue readingArnie GundersenArnie Gundersen, Chief Engineer at Fairewinds Energy Education, has published an article at Truthout: “Nuclear Power Is Not ‘Green Energy’: It Is a Fount of Atomic Waste.”
Gundersen serves as expert witness for Beyond Nuclear, in both it…
“Burning money” graphic art by Gene Case, Avening AngelsTom Henry of the Toledo Blade has Tweeted out his column on the ratepayer-funded bailout, now approved by the State of Ohio — to the tune of $132.5 million per year — of FirstEnergy Nuclear’s da…
Continue readingNuclear power is fizzling.
So begins a Wall Street Journal op-ed debate entitled “Is Nuclear Power Vital to Hitting CO2 Emissions Targets?”
Dr. Michael Dorsey, a director on the Sierra Club National Board, contributed the anti-nuclear, “NO: Nuclear Isn…
On Thurs., Nov. 10 from 8-9:30 PM Eastern, presenters from Beyond Nuclear, Institute for Energy and Environmental Research, Sustainable Energy & Economic Development Coalition, and Nuclear Information and Resource Service, will lead a Webinar fo…
Continue readingShortly before he died, our board chair, Lou Friedman, sent along a card with a secular adaptation of the famous Niebuhr quote: “Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom …
Continue reading“Burning money” image, by Gene Case of Avenging Angels, was featured on The Nation’s 2003 cover regarding the “Nuclear Power Relapse”Tim Judson, executive director of Nuclear Information and Resource Service (NIRS), has published a report entitled “Too…
Continue readingIn the case of BEYOND NUCLEAR, et al., Plaintiffs, v. U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY [DOE], et al., Defendants, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has filed, on behalf of DOE, a DEFENDANTS’ MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT.
DOJ and DOE are trying to get …
As reported by Tampa Bay Times columnist John Romano, in a column entitled “Did I mention that Amendment 1 is a no-good, dirty scam?”. Thanks to Scott Stapf of the Hastings Group for Tweeting it out.
Continue readingNot A Viable Climate Strategy: With More Than Half of US Reactors Expected to Be Uneconomical by 2020, $160 Billion Would Still Be Required for “Narrower” Subsidy Program; Huge Infusion of Support Would Crowd Out Renewables.
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Artist’s rendition of Fermi 3 (depicted in blue), to be built right on top of the exact spot where Fermi 1 suffered a partial meltdown on Oct. 5, 1966.Terry Lodge, a Toledo-based attorney who serves as legal counsel for an environmental coalition inc…
Continue readingPETITION DEADLINE: November 6, 2016
Japan intends to to export nuclear technology to India, a country that has not signed the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and possesses nuclear weapons. Signing the Indo-Japan Nuclear Cooperation Agreement …
Water protectors attacked with tear gas
Food & Water Watch has issued the following action alert: The situation in Standing Rock, North Dakota is escalating. In the last week, militarized police from five states used pepper spray, t…
Continue readingChannel 17 (CCTV, TownMeeting Television, Burlington, Vermont) host Margaret Harrington gets together with Kevin Kamps of Beyond Nuclear, Jane Palmer of Rising Tide, Vermont and Dr. Rachel Smolker of Protect Geprag’s Park to talk about the unifica…
Continue readingWhile Missouri River water defenders expand resistance at the Dakota Access Pipeline to unfettered natural gas development, there is more good news downriver with the permanent closure of the Fort Calhoun nuclear power station in Blair, Nebraska. The O…
Continue readingFloodwaters on the Missouri River in spring and summer of 2011 lapped against safety significant buildings at Fort Calhoun atomic reactor in Nebraska, upstream of the state’s largest city, Omaha.As reported by Cole Epley in the Omaha World-Herald, the …
Continue readingLawyers for U.S. sailors suffering illnesses associated with radiation exposure from the Fukushima nuclear catastrophe presented oral arguments before the 9th circuit court in Pasadena, CA in September. This follows two victories before the district …
Continue readingThe Great LakesBeyond Nuclear has joined with a coalition of U.S. and Canadian environmental groups in calling for the ouster of the beleaguered head of the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC), Dr. Michael Binder, for acting as a cheerleader for …
Continue readingEnergy companies and trade associations have filed a lawsuit in federal court, while Public Citizen has filed an intervention at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, in opposition to a nearly $8 billion ratepayer-funded bailout of several failin…
Continue readingThe Center for Biological Diversity is circulating an action alert, calling for messages to be sent to President Obama, urging him to designate the Great Grand Canyon Heritage National Monument before he leaves office. This would effectively prot…
Continue readingKarl GrossmanInvestigative journalist Karl Grossman (photo, left) — a Beyond Nuclear board of directors member — delivered a presentation to Long Island Metro Business Action entitled “How Cuomo’s $7.6 Billion Nuclear Bail-out Can I…
Continue readingA recently hosted conference and unrelated published paper each highlight impacts of radiation exposure during early life. At the “5th International Expert Symposium in Fukushima on Radiation and Health” held in Fukushima City, Japan, an incre…
Continue readingIan Zabarte, Native Community Action CouncilBeyond Nuclear was honored and privileged to take part in the Native American Forum on Nuclear Issues held at the University of Nevada at Las Vegas (UNLV) on October 10-11, Indigenous Peoples Day. The power…
Continue readingHiroshima, Japan, 1945 — in the aftermath of the U.S. atomic bombing on August 6thGermany’s Non-Violent Action for Abolition of Nuclear Weapons, as well as Nukewatch of Wisconsin, are calling for supporters in the U.S. and other countries to print up …
Continue reading“To the village square we must carry the facts of atomic energy. From there must come America’s voice.” — Albert Einstein, June 1946. Photo credit: Mark Muhich, Sierra Club MI Chapter Nuclear-Free CommitteeA column in the LA Ti…
Continue readingPolitical cartoon by Adam Zyglis, The Buffalo NewsIn August, an environmental coalition, including Beyond Nuclear, launched a legal challenge against 150 imminent truck shipments of highly radioactive liquid wastes from Chalk River, Ontario, throu…
Continue readingRick Wayman of the Nulear Age Peace Foundation reports:
The International Court of Justice (ICJ), the world’s highest court, delivered its judgments on preliminary issues in the Marshall Islands’ nuclear disarmament cases against India,…
As reported by Amy Goodman on Democracy Now! during the show’s Oct. 4th news headlines segment (watch/listen from the 11 minute 43 second mark to the 13 minute 13 second mark), a Native American land defender/water protector (they do not want to be …
Continue readingPublished on Oct 4, 2016
Liquid Nuclear Waste Convoys: A Threat of the Waters of the Great Lakes – Media Conference, Queen’s Park, Toronto, Oct 3 2016. Complete press package at http://ccnr.org/GLWQA_pack.pdf. Dr. Gordon Edwards, P…
Continue readingBeyond Nuclear was honored and privileged to appear on Thom Hartmann’s “The Big Picture,” along with Indigenous Environmental Network, to discuss the ongoing, inspiring water and land protector resistance against the Dakota Access Pipeline, centered …
Continue readingNative Community Action Council logoBeyond Nuclear is honored and privileged to be invited by the Native Community Action Council (NCAC) to present at its Native American Forum on Nuclear Issues, taking place on October 10 & 11, 2016, at the Un…
Continue readingThe revolving door between so-called “public servants” and nuclear power lobbying firms is spinning so fast, it could be connected to the electric grid and awarded billion dollar subsidies at ratepayer and taxpayers expense! Close on the heels of…
Continue readingJohn G. Fuller’s iconic 1975 book “We Almost Lost Detroit” helped open many eyes to the dangers of nuclear powerNext Wednesday, Beyond Nuclear is joining with grassroots environmental allies in southeast Michigan to mark the 50th anniversary of the…
Continue readingProfessor Derek Abbott, a physicist and electrical engineer at the University of Adelaide, shows why the pipe dreams of the pro-nuclear propagandists are precisely that. Using a wealth of empirical data illustrating global trends, he also ably debunks …
Continue readingNukes of Hazard. The Nuclear Bomb Convoys on our Roads, is a new investigate report by journalist, Rob Edwards, looking at the risks and realities of nuclear weapons transports in the UK. However, the lessons and warnings are universal.  …
Continue readingPhoto by Alyssa Schukar for The New York Times, included in front page coverage on September 10, 2016Beyond Nuclear staffers attended the Sep. 15 DOE public meeting on “Consent-Based Siting” of high-level radioactive waste parking lot dumps. Paul …
Continue readingRepresentatives from multiple environmental groups “just say no” to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s “Nuke Waste Con Game” at the agency’s HQ in Rockville, MD in late 2013In an outrageous and flagrant disregard for the public input process, the U.S…
Continue readingOn October 5 it will be 50 years since the Fermi 1 prototype liquid metal fast breeder reactor, located near Monroe, MI, suffered a loss of coolant accident and partial meltdown that narrowly missed turning into a major catastrophe, as recounted in Joh…
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