On September 7, 2016, Beyond Nuclear joined with Pilgrim Watch and six other Massachusetts safe energy groups to oppose an effort by the New Orleans-based Entergy Nuclear Corporation to quietly evade the economic consequences and legal compliance wit…
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Beyond Nuclear is honored to be working with the Canadian Environmental Law Association (CELA), and a coalition of 110 organizations, to protect the Great Lakes against the hazards of radioactive contamination. The Great Lakes Basin has dozens of nucle…
Continue readingIndigenous resistance mounts against the so-called Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL)Longtime Native American allies of the anti-nuclear movement, Indigenous Environmental Network and Honor the Earth, have issued an urgent call for solidarity (including…
Continue readingA sign held at an anti-nuclear demonstration in Germany. (Photo: Michaela/flickr/cc)An article by Andrea Germanos, subtitled “By suppressing better ways to meet climate goals, evidence suggests entrenched commitments to nuclear power may actuall…
Continue readingJoin us, Saturday, August 20, 2016 in Port Huron, Michigan! Protect the Great Lakes Walk & Rally! Celebrating grassroots efforts to keep our Great Lakes clean! The Walk begins at 12 Noon at the Flag Plaza under the Blue Water Bridge (Thomas Ed…
Continue readingInternational Atomic Energy Agency radioactivity hazard warning signAn environmental coalition, including Beyond Nuclear, has filed a lawsuit seeking to block up to 150 unprecedented truck shipments of highly radioactive liquid wastes, from Chalk R…
Continue readingThe Second Thematic World Social Forum for a Nuclear-Free World took place in Montreal from August 8 to 14 (the First was held in Fukushima and Tokyo, Japan last April). The Montreal Declaration for a Nuclear-Fission-Free World already has 168 or…
Continue readingSept. 17, 2015 PowerDC rally in Washington, DC, opposing Exelon Nuclear’s takeover of Pepco. The hand-signed banner was delivered, en mass, to DC Mayor Muriel Bowser’s office.WASHINGTON, D.C. – Public Citizen and D.C. Solar United Neighborhoods …
Continue readingKevin Kamps, Beyond Nuclear’s Radioactive Waste Watchdog, delivered a statement to members of the news media on a press conference call sponsored by NIRS.
Continue readingEnvironmental coalition members from the Crabshell Alliance, Sierra Club Nuclear-Free Campaign, NIRS, PSR, NEIS, and Public Citizen “just say NO!” at the NRC HQ nuke waste con game public comment meeting on 11/14/13 in Rockville, MD. Photo cr…
Continue readingThanks to everyone who took action in response to our alerts in recent weeks. But unfortunately, as reported by investigative journalist and Beyond Nuclear board member Karl Grossman, despite a groundswell of opposition, on August 1st Governor Andrew…
Continue readingKarl GrossmanBeyond Nuclear board of directors member Karl Grossman (photo, left) writes:
On Enformable today, my article on the New York State Public Service Commission yesterday approving a $7.6 billion bail-out of aging nuclear power plants in ups…
Groups say state now responsible to ensure nuclear safety of the plants going forward
[NIRS and AGREE have issued a press release that begins:]
Albany, NY – The New York State Public Service Commission today approved the “Clean Energy Stan…
Illustration [artist’s rendition] of Hinkley Point C nuclear station. Photograph: EDF Energy/PA An article by Graham Ruddick in the Guardian, entitled “From feast to farce: how the big Hinkley Point C party was put on ice,” reported that “the UK go…
Continue readingTwo people who were very precious not only to Beyond Nuclear, but to humanity, chose to leave this world on Monday, July 25th.
Judi Friedman, 80 and Lou Friedman, 81 — educators, humanitarians, peace envoys, parents, grandparents, friends, collea…
Please call New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s office right away at (518) 474-8390, or message him here. Gov. Cuomo has ordered the NY Public Service Commission (PSC) to approve a $10 billion bailout for the state’s dirty, dangerous, and financially f…
Continue readingErica Gray of the Virginia Sierra Club Nuclear-Free Committee holds an iconic Smiling Sun “Nuclear Power? No Thanks!” flag at the UN climate march in New York City in Sept. 2014. NIRS spearheaded the Nuclear-Free, Climate-Free contingent there too, whi…
Continue readingRepresentatives from a coalition of environmental and public interest groups protest the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s “Nuke Waste Con Game” at the agency’s Rockville, MD HQ in late 2013.The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has held nine public m…
Continue readingGraphic art from AGREE action alertNY Governor Cuomo and his Public Service Commission have proposed a massive $8 billion bailout, at ratepayer expense, to prop up three financially failing Exelon atomic reactors in upstate NY on the Lake Ontario…
Continue readingSusquehanna nuclaer power plant in Salem Twp., PAAs Susan Schwartz of the Press Enterprise reports from Salem Twp., PA, three senior reactor operators at the Susquehanna nuclear power plant (see NRC file photo, left) have been temporaily suspended, p…
Continue readingAs reported by Gloria Galloway at the Globe and Mail, an anonymous letter written by Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) staffers alleges that the agency staff has kept the CNSC Commissioners, and the CNSC President, in the dark about signi…
Continue readingAs reported by Cody Comb’s of WWMT-TV 3’s I-Team, who originally broke the story of fire risk violations at Entergy Nuclear’s Palisades atomic reactor earlier this month, based on whistle-blower revelations, additional whistle-blowers have revealed the…
Continue readingEntergy Nuclear’s Palisades atomic reactor, located on the Lake Michigan shore in Covert, MIForty-one years after a catastrophic fire at Browns Ferry, Alabama nearly caused a reactor core meltdown, and two years after Entergy was busted for fire wa…
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NUCLEAR WASTE ACTION ALERT:
By Jerry Collamer
Residents Organized for a Safe Environment (ROSE) and San Onofre High Level Nuke Dump are encouraging environmental activists to organize their members to visit/contact all of their state and federal elected officials to demand they take action on our nation’s critical nuclear waste issues, “what and where to put America’s growing stockpiles of waste?” Many of us working on this think that now is the time for a big push. With 14 nuke plants decommissioning and more to come soon we cannot wait any longer for strong action to be taken. Let’s get organized across the country!
We all know that in the beginning of the nuclear madness, it was promised that in 40 years the solution to nuclear waste would be figured out by the time it was needed. This did not come true, it has not been figured out. Instead, in August 2014 the Nuclear Regulatory Commission turned all NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS into NUCLEAR WASTE DUMPS for a minimum of 200 years. US taxpayers over these past years have now subsidized the nuclear industry with over 14 trillion dollars. Also, the Department of Energy is paying these nuclear plants MILLIONS OF DOLLARS MORE EACH YEAR TO STORE THEIR NUCLEAR WASTE ONSITE IN YOUR BACKYARD! WE MUST STOP MAKING MORE NUCLEAR WASTE NOW. We also know that it is no longer satisfactory to let our elected officials keep kicking this nuclear canister down the road. We must demand action from our government and the nuclear industry to find the solutions that are needed, and our anti-nuclear activists must have a seat at this table. Our generation of activists cannot be the one that lets this INACTION continue for another 200 years! Yes, of course,I know some of us have been working on this for years, but few have been listening to us, but now the “times they are a changin.” More people are now listening to us and WE MUST ACT NOW!
Listen to former chairperson of the NRC, Allison MacFarlane’s talk at the June 22nd CEP meeting. This nuclear waste information is very important if you want to get the DOE and the government moving on the waste issue. Video 1, start the video at 1:55:30 to hear the entire talk at: http://www.songscommunity.com/cep-events/062216_event.asp
Please take action by using this link to contact your elected officials:
Please take action by using the links below to contact your elected officials:
House of Representative http://www.house.gov/representatives/find/
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| By Jerry Collamer |
Residents Organized for a Safe Environment (ROSE) and San Onofre High Level Nuke Dump are encouraging environmental activists to organize their members to visit/contact all of their state and federal elected officials to demand they take action on our nation’s critical nuclear waste issues, “what and where to put America’s growing stockpiles of waste?” Many of us working on this think that now is the time for a big push. With 14 nuke plants decommissioning and more to come soon we cannot wait any longer for strong action to be taken. Let’s get organized across the country!
As a reminder, the Invitation for Public Comment closes on Sunday July 31st at 11:59 PM ET. Please email your comments to consentbasedsiting@hq.doe.gov or submit them using the options listed in the Federal Register notice before the closing date to have them considered in the draft summary report. Additionally, we are posting comments received to our website, and the first batch reflecting public input through July 1st is provided below. Comments received from July 1st – 31st will be posted in a similar manner after July 31st. Link to the document: http://www.energy.gov/ne/downloads/invitation-public-comment-inform-design-consent-based-siting-process
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
Nuclear Information and Resource Service (NIRS) has issued an action alert, calling for folks to join the March for a Clean Energy Revolution in Philadelphia, PA on Sunday, July 24th, on the eve of the Democratic National Convention. See the beginnin…
Continue readingNASA Juno Spacecraft graphic, showing the three large solar panels providing it power, with Jupiter pictured in the backgroundInvestigative journalist Karl Grossman has been watch-dogging nukes in space since the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster in 19…
Continue readingNASA Juno Spacecraft graphic, showing the three large solar panels providing it power, with Jupiter pictured in the backgroundInvestigative journalist Karl Grossman has been watch-dogging nukes in space since the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster in 19…
Continue readingU.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary aerial photo of oil sheen on Lake Ontario caused by Entergy Nuclear’s FitzPatrick atomic reactor, visible in backgroundNuclear power is not “emissions-free,” as its proponents so often claim. In fact, sometimes it cau…
Continue readingThe Chicago-based nuclear giant, Exelon Generation Corporpation, formally notified the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) that it will permanently close its Quad Cities Units 1 & 2 and Clinton nuclear generating stations in Illinois. Th…
Continue readingIn a historic agreement announced June 21, 2016 between environmental groups led by Friends of the Earth, labor unions and the California electric utility Pacific Gas & Electric (PGE), the Diablo Canyon nuclear generating station in San Luis Obis…
Continue readingThe Board of the Omaha Public Power District confirmed the promised closure of its Ft. Calhoun nuclear plant in a unanimous vote today. Ft. Calhoun will close by the end of the year. OPPD President and Chief Executive, Tim Burke, articulated what…
Continue readingAs reported by USA Today, the perpetrator of the massacre in Orlando, Florida — Omar Mateen — had been employed by G4S since 2007.
G4S is connected to nuclear weapons and nuclear power security in the U.S., including at the Department of Energ…
The Nuclear Energy Institute has admitted that 10-20 U.S. reactors are at risk of near-term closure, absent massive ratepayer subsidies to prop them up. Failure by numerous atomic reactors, across multiple states, to clear PJM’s recent capacity market …
Continue readingBeyond Nuclear has responded to last week’s ruling, by a panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, against a lawsuit challenging the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s (NRC) Nuclear Waste Confidence policy, re…
Continue readingThe EPA has issued recommendations for levels of radioactive contamination in drinking water. EPA suggests these levels be used by states in the event of a catastrophic release of radioactivity such as from a nuclear power…
Continue readingMedia Statement by Kevin Kamps, Beyond Nuclear’s Radioactive Waste Watchdog, in Response to U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit Panel Ruling in New York v. Nuclear Regulatory Commission II,
the Nuclear Waste Confidence Law…
Just before President Obama’s historic May 27th visit to Hiroshima, we asked why an apology would be out of the question? Could Obama not apologize on humanitarian grounds for the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki while saving fa…
Continue readingAs anticipated by WTTW, and now confirmed with Exelon Nuclear filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
These three just announced reactor closures now join another already announced reactor closure by Exelon — Oyster Creek, NJ in 2019…
Beyond Nuclear’s Paul Gunter is in Boston today to challenge the Department of Energy’s latest attempt to get New Englanders to “consent” to a radioactive waste dump in the region. Boston is the sixth of the DOE’s series of “consent-based siting” …
Continue readingEntergy’s fleet of operating reactors (see map, right) is dwindling. Shutdowns have been announced for FitzPatrick, NY in early 2017, and Pilgrim, MA in mid-2019, in addition to Vermont Yankee’s permanent closure in late 2014. The three worst performin…
Continue readingGrassroots environmental opponents to Ontario Power Generation’s (OPG) scheme to dump radioactive waste on the Great Lakes shore at Bruce Nuclear Generating Station (the world’s largest nuclear power plant, with eight operable reactors) in Kincardine, …
Continue readingAs reported by Science Magazine, a study by Princeton University researchers has revealed that U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) estimates of the catastrophic consequences of a high-level radioactive waste storage pool fire in the U.S. are …
Continue readingThe U.S. Senate has voted 90 to 8 to appropriate $30 million for the high-risk transport of irradiated nuclear fuel from atomic reactors targeted at so-called “consolidated interim storage” (CIS) sites that will likely become de fac…
Continue readingTributes have been flowing in recognition of the immense contribution to our movement made by Michael Mariotte, who died on May 16 after a long struggle with pancreatic cancer. The Executive Director and then President of Nuclear Information…
Continue readingPetitions from Japan. Please sign!
Hibakusha (survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings) have launched a petition campaign, calling for the abolition of nuclear weapons (with Obama’s May 27thvisit to Hiroshima j…
The Ft. Calhoun, Nebraska nuclear power plant must close by the end of the year, says Omaha Public Power District’s chief executive, Tim Burke, who says the plant is just too expensive to run. Ft. Calhoun has been plagued with problems incl…
Continue readingThis photo of Dan Berrigan (smiling, center) shows his apprehension after many months living underground, evading arrest. Despite being on the FBI’s “Ten Most Wanted” list, Dan Berrigan continued to speak and preach against the Vietnam War, once na…
Continue readingThom Hartmann, host of “The Big Picture”Thom Hartmann, host of “The Big Picture,” interviewed Beyond Nuclear’s Kevin Kamps on recent — and historical — liquid high-level radioactive waste leaks at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) military pluton…
Continue readingWrites Beyond Nuclear’s Linda Pentz Gunter in The Ecologist:
“From the moment I was informed – by telephone, at five o’clock in the morning on that fateful April 26, 1986 – that fire had broken out in Block Four of the Chernobyl nuclear power pla…