A 2016 update of the 2006 TORCH (The Other Report on Chernobyl) report finds that the deadly health legacy from the April 26, 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster is far from over, says its author, Dr. Ian Fairlie. The report was commissioned by GLOBAL 2000…
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As featured on TRT World’s “The Newsmakers”: Thirty years since the Chernobyl nuclear meltdown, The Newsmakers asks Kevin Kamps [of Beyond Nuclear in Washington, D.C., U.S.A.] and Jonathan Cobb [of the World Nuclear Association in London, U.K.] what l…
Continue readingWrites Linda Pentz Gunter in The Ecologist: “Dr Timothy Mousseau has published more than90 peer reviewed articles in scientific journals, related to the effects of radiation in natural populations (and more than 200 publications in total…
Continue readingThis 30-minute interview has just been published and broadcast in New York City, and is also available for viewing online: Alfred C. Meyer, Board Member of Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR) & Kevin Kamps, Radioactive Waste Watchdog at Be…
Continue readingWriting today in Counterpunch, Beyond Nuclear’s Linda Pentz Gunter explores how the April 26, 1969 Chernobyl nuclear disaster led to a nuclear-free Austria. An excerpt:
Nuclear power plants are banned in Austria under the country’s constitu…
At the Alliance for Nuclear Accountability’s (ANA) annual D.C. Days, Beyond Nuclear presented its 2016 Dr. Judith H. Johnsrud “Unsung Hero” Award to Kay Cumbow of Michigan, for her more than three decades of grassroots anti-nuclear activism.
Continue readingMarylia Kellley, Executive Director of Tri-Valley CAREs in California, an ANA member groupAs reported by Amy Goodman at Demoracy Now!:
On Monday, John Kerry became the first secretary of state to visit Hiroshima, the Japanese city destroyed by a U.S….
This still images comes from a U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission video. The yellow arrow shows a sub-surface crack in Davis-Besse’s concrete containment Shield Building wall. The cracking was revealed during an October 2011 reactor lid replacement…
Continue reading“Burning money” graphic art by Gene Case, Avenging AngelsFrom FirstEnergy’s problem-plagued Davis-Besse in OH, to Dominion’s Millstone twin unit power plant in CT, nuclear utilities are seeking many billions of dollars in public subsidies to prop up …
Continue readingIn an article for World Financial Review, Beyond Nuclear’s Linda Pentz Gunter writes that nuclear is on the wane.
“While nuclear energy continues to play a role in political discussion and decision-making circles, the financial realities indicate …
We should close them all. Now.
So begins an article by investigative journalist Karl Grossman published at CommonDreams.
Karl, a Beylnd Nuclear board member, reports on the March 31-April 1 Nuclear Security Summit in Washington, D.C. in light of the sh…
RT has interviewed Beyond Nuclear’s Radioactive Waste Watchdog, Kevin Kamps, about the March 31-April 1 so-called “Nuclear Security Summit” convened by President Obama. Kevin discusses what is not being discussed, for the most part: both global nuclear…
Continue readingInvestigative journalist Karl Grossman, a Beyond Nuclear board memberRT has interviewed investigative journalist Karl Grossman (photo left) on the risks of age-degraded nuclear power plants like Indian Point near New York City, where rusted and even mi…
Continue readingNRC file photo of Entergy’s FitzPatrick atomic reactor in upstate NYEntergy Nuclear, in an official regulatory communication with the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), has committed to permanently shut down its James A. FitzPatrick atomic react…
Continue readingThe Tihange nuclear facility last week.Credit Julien Warnand/European Pressphoto AgencyAs reported by Agence France-Presse:
Brussels (AFP) – Belgium security forces tightened security at nuclear plants across the country after deadly attacks in t…
As reported by Agence France-Presse:
Brussels (AFP) – Belgium security forces tightened security at nuclear plants across the country after deadly attacks in the capital city of Brussels, the Belga news agency said.
“Surveillance is stepped up wit…
Continue readingAppeals court judge Merrick Garland is nominated for Supreme Court justice at the Rose Garden on Wednesday. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images As reported by Nina Totenberg on National Public Radio, President Obama has nominated U.S. Court of Appeals f…
Continue readingAs reported at Countercurrents.org by Kumar Sundaram, senior researcher with Coalition for Nuclear Disarmament and Peace (CNDP) and Editor of DiaNUke.or, a “small Loss-of-Coolant Accident (LOCA)” may be underway at the Kakrapar Nuclear Power Station (p…
Continue readingCanadian television channel CTV interviewed Beyond Nuclear’s Radioactive Waste Watchdog, Kevin Kamps, regarding the ongoing Fukushima nuclear catastrophe, including what it means for the Pacific coastline of North America. Every day, 300 tons (300,000 …
Continue readingThom Hartmann, The Big PictureThom Hartmann (photo, left) hosted Beyond Nuclear’s Reactor Oversight Project Director, Paul Gunter, and Radioactive Waste Watchdog, Kevin Kamps, for an installment of “Conversations with Great Minds” on his “The Big Pictu…
Continue readingBeyond Nuclear, in a press release today, decried the absence of reasonable plans to prevent and protect against a nuclear disaster in the U.S., five years after the March 11, 2011 triple meltdowns began at the Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear …
Continue readingBeyond Nuclear’s Kevin Kamps was hosted on Turkish Radio and Television’s (TRT) program “The Newsmakers.” He squared off against attorney Elina Teplinsky, a parnter at the Washington, D.C.-based law firm Pillsbury, which serves as legal counsel to th…
Continue readingAileen Mioko Smith, Executive Director, Green Action KyodoAs explained in a YouTube video by Green Action Kyodo’s Executive Director, Aileen Mioko Smith (photo, left), amidst a celebration parade, Japan’s anti-nuclear movement has scored another unprec…
Continue readingSept. 17, 2015 PowerDC rally against Exelon takeover of Pepco, before marching to D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser’s office to deliver the hand-signed banner.As reported by the Washington Post, Chicago-based Exelon Nuclear and Mid-Atlantic utility Pepco have f…
Continue readingTAKOMA PARK, MD, March 7, 2016 — A Florida nuclear power plant that sucked a scuba diver through its unprotected cooling intake pipe, is in ongoing violation of the Endangered Species Act (ESA), Beyond Nuclear and the Rachel Carson Council have charge…
Continue readingProject Mercury Astronauts (Source: Wikipedia)The Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) has posted commentary by its Nuclear Safety Project Director, David Lochbaum, on the 2.206 (emergency enforcement) petition submitted to the U.S. Nuclear Regulator…
Continue reading Nothing says Welcome To Town like a Nuke Dump and an Outlet Mall.
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| No Nuke Dump At San Onofre #SaveTrestles |
It’s a beautiful day in San Clemente, California, and you are here, discovering treasure, never mind the 3,600,000 lbs of high grade nuclear waste a few miles south. So Cal Edison would like to bury it in the sand, a few feet from the ocean in thin steal canisters that can crack thru in our lifetime. They will tell you they have no way to test for these cracks, or even have a way to fix them. If something were to go wrong there real time radiation monitoring of the nuclear dump at San Onofre is not avalable to you. With Edisions past track record of first denying and then admitting there was a radiation release beg for more transparency? With radiation you can’t see it, you can’t smell it and we may never know, wink, if it affects its neighbors, read you and me, thanks to the Nuclear Regulatory Commision cancelling the cancer study.
Traffic along the I-5 has been a nightmare with the widening of the freeway, and since La Pata, the only other potential way out of town, is not completed, someone thought it would be a good idea to have the Outlet at San Clemente Grand Opening Ribbon Cutting Ceremony today at 10:30!
Now the good news, the nuke dump is in the planning stages, if you live in California you want to support candidates that will fight the notion that a nuke dump at Trestles is somehow a good idea. If they think that this is not a problem they need to be replaced before that sign is set in stone.
When Radiation Isn’t the Real Risk http://t.co/vsQN7EfWyo
— Tim Brown (@timthebrown) September 22, 2015
The real risk is apathy. No Nuke Dump At San Onofre. #SaveTrestles
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
A study examining thyroid cancer among children 18 years and younger when the Fukushima nuclear catastrophe began, found an increase in thyroid cancers, as predicted by World Health Organization (WHO) initial dose assessments.
However, lead researcher…
Beyond Nuclear is honored to co-host the 2015 Nuclear-Free Future Award which will be held in on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC on October 28th. You are invited to attend!
The prestigious Nuclear-Free Future Award honors those who have worked to …
The Mobile Chernobyl mock nuke waste cask, a full size replica of a truck shipping container, shown in front of the State Capitol in Jefferson City, MO during a cross-country educational tourNIRS has announced:
STOP FUKUSHIMA FREEWAYS: K…
This is Part 2 from Lucas Hixson, Enformable creator and Beyond Nuclear board member, on his first hand experience at the Chernobyl decommissioning site in northern Ukraine. April 26, 2016 marks the three decades since the nuclear disaster …
Continue readingBeyond Nuclear’s radioactive waste watchdog, Kevin Kamps, was invited as a witness at a hearing of the U.S. House of Representatives Energy & Commerce Committee, Environment and the Economy Subcommittee on Oct. 1st. See the hearing description, wit…
Continue readingLucas Hixson, the website Enformable’s creator and Beyond Nuclear Board Member, recently returned from a visit to the Chernobyl nuclear disaster site in Ukraine. Here is Enformable’s first in a series of editorials the website is posting as we approach…
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#NRC cancels health study around nuclear plants, including #SanOnofre – The Orange County Register http://t.co/QhVMFNKlRv
— AA Clearinghouse (@AAClearinghouse) September 18, 2015
San Onofre Operators Exposed on #NBC: Massive Contamination at Pristine Beach http://t.co/TcxQu7J2dB #nonukes #climate #security #sec #law
— Cecalli Helper (@Cecalli_Helper) September 22, 2015
The most common wind direction for most of the year was North (Orange County) except in the spring (April-June) when it was to the south (San Diego County).
In 2012, there were 29 incidents of effluent monitoring instruments being out of service for more than 30 days. In 2013 there were 22 such incidents.
It is interesting to examine NRC documents on batch releases after the reactors were shut down (Jan., 2012) compared to when they were in full operation. There were 3 batch releases of gaseous effluents in when Units 2 and 3 were in operation in 2011 (total 44.2 hours). In 2012 (after it was shut down) there were 6 such releases totaling 43.1 hours.
Liquid radioactive batch releases in 2011 totaled 518 hours at 740,000 gal per minute. In 2012 after operation ceased, releases went on for 335 hours at 612,000 gal per minute.
The NRC claims that it cannot afford the $8 million to carry out the cancer study proposed by the National Academy of Sciences. For 2016, the NRC has requested $1.032 billion of which 90% will be paid for by the nuclear industry it is supposed to be regulating. The NRC spends $25 million/year on travel expenses. In 2015, the nuclear industry gave the NRC $43 million for “outreach” and “policy support.”
Ask your local representative to tell the NRC,
BRING BACK THE CANCER STUDY!
&
BRING BACK THE CANCER STUDY!
&
“NO effluent releases at any time in cases of effluent monitoring instrument failure”
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
#NRC cancels health study around nuclear plants, including #SanOnofre – The Orange County Register http://t.co/QhVMFNKlRv
— AA Clearinghouse (@AAClearinghouse) September 18, 2015
San Onofre Operators Exposed on #NBC: Massive Contamination at Pristine Beach http://t.co/TcxQu7J2dB #nonukes #climate #security #sec #law
— Cecalli Helper (@Cecalli_Helper) September 22, 2015
The most common wind direction for most of the year was North (Orange County) except in the spring (April-June) when it was to the south (San Diego County).
In 2012, there were 29 incidents of effluent monitoring instruments being out of service for more than 30 days. In 2013 there were 22 such incidents.
It is interesting to examine NRC documents on batch releases after the reactors were shut down (Jan., 2012) compared to when they were in full operation. There were 3 batch releases of gaseous effluents in when Units 2 and 3 were in operation in 2011 (total 44.2 hours). In 2012 (after it was shut down) there were 6 such releases totaling 43.1 hours.
Liquid radioactive batch releases in 2011 totaled 518 hours at 740,000 gal per minute. In 2012 after operation ceased, releases went on for 335 hours at 612,000 gal per minute.
The NRC claims that it cannot afford the $8 million to carry out the cancer study proposed by the National Academy of Sciences. For 2016, the NRC has requested $1.032 billion of which 90% will be paid for by the nuclear industry it is supposed to be regulating. The NRC spends $25 million/year on travel expenses. In 2015, the nuclear industry gave the NRC $43 million for “outreach” and “policy support.”
Ask your local representative to tell the NRC,
BRING BACK THE CANCER STUDY!
&
BRING BACK THE CANCER STUDY!
&
“NO effluent releases at any time in cases of effluent monitoring instrument failure”
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
The Davis-Besse “White Wash of 2012,” applied 40 years too late, backfired by locking water in the walls, which now worsens the Shield Building cracking every time it freezes!
A 38-year old atomic reactor, that has had more close calls with catast…
Radio and t.v. news anchor Thom HartmannTelevision news host Thom Hartmann of “The Big Picture” on RT (photo, left) interviewed Beyond Nuclear’s radioactive waste watchdog Kevin Kamps on the latest from Fukushima Daiichi: historic floods after Typhoo…
Continue readingRT hosted Beyond Nuclear’s radioactive waste watchdog, Kevin Kamps, who described the Japanese government’s attempt to resettle nuclear evacuees in radioactively contaminated towns like Naraha as a futile effort to create the “illusion of normality.” T…
Continue readingParticipants in the PowerDC rally against Exelon’s takeover of Pepco took a group photo before marching to DC Mayor Muriel Bowwer’s officeBeyond Nuclear staff joined with allies in the PowerDC coalition at the Wilson Building — housing the Executi…
Continue readingBeyond Nuclear decries misleading reports about decontamination in press release today:
TAKOMA PARK, MD, September 14, 2015 — Reports in the press today that “formerly contaminated” groundwater has been dumped from the stricken Fukush…
Beyond Nuclear today released a statement denouncing the NRC’s willingness to squander money on white elephants and protracted licensing proceedings while canceling a vital cancer study around nuclear facilitiies:
TAKOMA PARK, MD, September 11, 2015 &m…
As reported by the Guardian:
The heavy rain, which is expected to spread north on Friday, has also caused additional leaks of radioactive water at the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.
The plant’s operator, Tokyo Electric Powe…
Continue reading“The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission is considering a move to eliminate the ‘Linear No-Threshold’ (LNT) basis of radiation protection that the U.S. has used for decades and replace it with the “radiation hormesis” theor…
Continue readingAs reported by Politico:
Senate Democrats on Thursday successfully blocked a measure meant to kill President Barack Obama’s nuclear deal with Iran, dealing a decisive defeat to Republicans’ attempts to derail the controversial agreement and en…
The Ecologist leads, “The well-founded idea that nuclear radiation is dangerous even at the lowest levels is under attack, writes Karl Grossman. Three determined nuclear enthusiasts have filed petitions to the NRC calling on it to apply the doctrine of…
Continue readingEntergy’s FitzPatrick atomic reactor (NRC file photo).The subject line above is Scott Stapf of the Hasting Group’s Tweet pointing to an article at Syracuse.com. The dirty, age-degraded, dangerous, expensive, uncompetitive Fukushima Daiichi twin design …
Continue readingBeyond Nuclear today decried the outrageous decision by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to cancel a study that would have examined cancer incidence and mortalities and the connection to U.S. nuclear facilities.
“Study after study in …
As reported by AP:
PRAGUE (AP) — The Czech Republic’s counter-intelligence agency says the number of Russian spies remains high and they are particularly interested in the country’s nuclear program.
The agency, also known as BIS, says in …
A FirstEnergy ratepayer (Shutterstock). In fact, AARP has spoken out forcefully against the FirstEnergy bailout, as at PUCO public comment hearings in Akron, OH — FirstEnergy’s hometown — in Jan. 2015.Should we laugh or cry? David Roberts…
Continue readingAs reported by Christine Legere at the Cape Cod Times, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has ranked Entergy’s Pilgrim atomic reactor in Plymouth, MA near Boston as tied for the worst performing in the country.
It is tied for worst p…