An NRC inspector examines severe cracking in the Davis-Besse Shield Building shortly ater they were first revealed on Oct. 11, 2011. NRC file photo.Terry Lodge, Toledo-based attorney for an environmental coalition (including Beyond Nuclear) resisti…
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Pediatrician Dr. Alex Rosen”Nuclear bomb tests contaminate soils, while nuclear accidents and X-rays are a direct threat to our health. At a world summit this week, doctors called for more protection and awareness…
“It was a central theme at this…
A warning by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s top on-site safety inspector at California’s Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant concealed within NRC for more than a year has gone public. In July 2013, Michael Peck, the agency’s …
Continue readingU.S. Rep. Dan Kildee (D-MI)As reported by the Macomb Daily:
“On a ship moored along the banks of the Saginaw River, U.S. Rep. Dan Kildee will reveal a major plan to protect the Great Lakes from a proposed nuclear waste facility on the Canadian shores…
TEPCO has been ordered to pay Mikio Watanabe (pictured) nearly 500,000 US dollars in compensation for the suicide of his wife, Hamako (58 years), after they were forced to leave their home and livelihoods in Kawamata town (40 km from the reactors) d…
Continue readingKarl GrossmanKarl Grossman (photo, left) has published an article at Enformable about a “Differing Professional Opinion” filed by Dr. Michael Peck, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s (NRC) top on-site inspector at Pacific Gas & Electric’s twi…
Continue readingKarl GrossmanKarl Grossman (photo, left) has published an article at Enformable about a “Differing Professional Opinion” filed by Dr. Michael Peck, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s (NRC) top on-site inspector at Pacific Gas & Electric’s twi…
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 credit …
Continue readingDon’t Waste Michigan board members Michael Keegan, Alice Hirt, and Kevin Kamps call for Palisades’ permanent shutdown at the 2000 Nuclear-Free Great Lakes Action Camp, on the Lake Michigan beach at Van Buren State Park, with the atomic reactor’s co…
Continue readingNRC Commissioner William Magwood IV34 groups, including Beyond Nuclear, have written a letter to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s Chairman, Allison Macfarlane, as well as NRC Commissioners Christine Svinicki and William Ostendorff, urging them …
Continue readingNRC file photo of Fermi 2Multiple environmental groups have met an arbitrarily short, 11:59pm Eastern deadline, and officially intervened against the application by DTE (Detroit Edison) to extend the operating license at its Fermi 2 atomic reactor (pho…
Continue reading“Nuclear Illinois” map produced by NEISAs reported by the Chicago Tribune:
“Exelon has asked the Environmental Protection Agency to change its proposed emissions rules to ensure that all of its nuclear power plants and other nuclear facilities across t…
Aerial image of Vogtle nuclear power plant in GA, showing the operational Units 1 and 2, as well as the construction site for the proposed Units 3 and 4. Photo credit: High Flyer.We told them so. As the environmental movement warned 14 years ago, w…
Continue readingAlthough atomic reactors and their transmission lines are inextricably interconnected, NRC staff failed to include them in its FEIS for the proposed new Fermi 3 reactor, a violation of NEPAOn Aug. 7th, Terry Lodge, Toledo-based attorney for the environ…
Continue readingAs reported in Beyond Nuclear’s weekly email bulletin on June 5th, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) unveiled President Obama’s proposal to curb greenhouse gas emissions causing the climate crisis. Most unfortunately, the Obama administrat…
Continue readingThe solar-powered Rosetta space probe made a successful rendezvous this week with a comet more than 300 million miles from the Sun — a distance at which nuclear-proponents have for decades insisted solar energy would never work; that nuclear power was…
Continue readingCandles and paper lanterns float on the Motoyasu River in front of the Atomic Bomb Dome at the Peace Memorial Park, in memory of the victims of the bomb on the 63rd anniversary of the Hiroshima bomb on August 6, 2008 in Hiroshima, Japan.Commemorations …
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After nearly 40 years, EPA is considering updating its radiation exposure standards for regularly operating nuclear facilities. Human health, not the financial health of the nuclear industry, should drive any changes that EPA makes. These…
Entergy Nuclear’s “dirty dozen” atomic reactors across the U.S.As reported by the New Orleans Times-Picayune, for the second year in a row, Entergy has announced major job cuts across its nuclear fleet of a “dirty dozen” atomic reactors nationwide. The…
Continue readingThe following letter to the editor has just appeared in the New York Times:
To the Editor:
“Hearings on Water Permits for Indian Pt.” (news article, July 23) includes a suggestion that the Indian Point nuclear facility is critical to kee…
Beyond Nuclear’s Kevin Kamps appeared on Thom Hartmann’s “The Big Picture” television program on Thursday, July 31st. Thom asked Kevin about a recent scientific study documenting radioactive cesium contamination of the muscle tissue of monkeys who inha…
Continue readingAlthough atomic reactors and their transmission lines are inextricably interconnected, NRC failed to include them in its Fermi 3 FEISAn environmental coalition, including Beyond Nuclear, has warned for two and a half years, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory …
Continue readingAn NRC inspector visually examines severe cracking in the Davis-Besse Shield Building, Oct., 2011In a ruling on July 25th, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s (NRC) Atomic Safety and Licensing Board (ASLB) panel at Davis-Besse, OH rejected an envi…
Continue readingWhile Beyond Nuclear continues its review and analysis of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) recently released report on the “Lessons Learned From The Fukushima Nuclear Accident For Improving Safety Of U.S. Nuclear Plants” it must be no…
Continue readingDr. Helen Caldicott, Beyond Nuclear’s Founding PresidentTeaching for Change Bookstore at Busboys and Poets welcomes Helen Caldicott, editor of the new book,
Crisis Without End: The Medical and Ecological Consequences of the Fukushima Nuclear …
NRC Commissioner William Magwood IVThe environmental coalition, including Beyond Nuclear, also requests a U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) Office of Inspector General (OIG) investigation of Commissioner William Magwood IV’s (photo, left) …
Continue reading35 years ago on July 16, likely the worst and certainly most forgotten U.S. nuclear accident happened.
On July 16, 1979, just 14 weeks after the Three Mile Island reactor accident, and just 34 years to the day after the Trinity atomic test, the smal…
NRC Commissioner William Magwood IVIn response to a demand made last month by attorneys Diane Curran and Mindy Goldstein on behalf of 34 groups, including Beyond Nuclear, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commissioner (NRC) William Magwood IV (photo, left) has r…
Continue readingPhoto by Beth KemlerBeyond Nuclear staff attended the rally in Washington D.C. on Sunday, July 13th against the Cove Point LNG (liquefied natural gas) expansion proposal, alongside organizing groups such as CCAN (Chesapeake Climate Action Network) and …
Continue readingA 6.8 M earthquake was registered at 4:22 Japan Standard Time, 84 miles off the coast of the shutdown Fukushima Dai-Ni nuclear power station (not to be confused with the wrecked and melted Fukushima Dai-ichi reactor site.) Fortunately the Dai-Ni reacto…
Continue readingAn Eastern Fox Snake, a threatened indigenous constrictor, but one of numerous endangered or threatened species that could well inhabit Fermi 3’s proposed transmission line corridor.In a ruling issued on July 7th, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission…
Continue readingAs reported by Reuters, Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) militants have seized 88 pounds of nuclear material from a university in Mosul, Iraq. The Iraqi Ambassador to the United Nations has reported the theft to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, …
Continue readingFrom left to right, Beyond Nuclear’s Kevin Kamps, VYDA’s Chris Williams, and VYDA’s Jeanette Baer “frog marched” into a waiting “Paddy wagon” by Windham County Sheriff’s deputies for the ride to Brattleboro City Jail, March 22, 2012.The following annou…
Continue readingU.S. Navy Joint Typhoon Warning Center map showing projected path of Super Typhoon NeoguriAs reported by Mother Jones, a “once in decades storm” packing winds stronger than 150 miles per hour, Super Typhoon Neoguri, is taking direct aim at some of Japa…
Continue readingAs reported by the Kalamazoo Gazette and Michigan Radio, three security guard force whistleblowers spoke out an a Nuclear Regulatory Commission public meeting last night, alleging that they were terminated from Entergy’s Palisades atomic reactor becaus…
Continue readingIn an article entitled “Great Lakes Communities Struggle Against Proposed Nuclear Waste Facility,” reporter Katie Rucke of MintPress News provides an update on the 13-year-long resistance to what Beyond Nuclear’s Kevin Kamps has described as a “declara…
Continue readingAs reported by the Macomb Daily Tribune, U.S. Senators Debbie Stabenow and Carl Levin (both Democrats from Michigan) have again written U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, urging that the Canada-U.S. International Joint Commission be activated, to stud…
Continue readingBeyond Nuclear’s Kevin Kamps (back to camera), NIRS executive director Tim Judson (seated), and Nukewatch Wisconsin’s John LaForge present at the annual “Nuclear Power Is Not the Answer” workshop session at the MREA Fair. Photo by Dave Kraft, NEIS exec…
Continue readingThe upload as it appears in Safecast’s new web map.Beyond Nuclear is pleased to have been selected for the first ever “Upload of the Month” by Safecast, for our bGeigie Nano radiation monitor readings taken at the Van Buren State Park in Michigan, imme…
Continue readingNRC Commissioner William Magwood IVAs explained in a press release, 34 groups, including Beyond Nuclear, have urged U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) Commissioner William Magwood IV (photo, left) to resign immediately, due to his apparent and ac…
Continue readingNRC file photo of Palisades, and the Great Lake and countryside it puts at risk.On June 11, 2014, a group of five concerned local residents and environmental group representatives, including Beyond Nuclear’s Kevin Kamps, toured Entergy Nuclear’s proble…
Continue readingToday, the State of Michigan’s Senate unanimously passed a bill and resolutions package sponsored by sponsored by State Senator Phil Pavlov and co-sponsored by State Senators John Proos, Jack Brandenburg, Michael Green, Tonya Schuitmaker, Hoon-Yung H…
Continue readingNRC file photo of Entergy’s Pilgrim GE BWR Mark I on Cape Cod Bay in Plymouth, MABeyond Nuclear has signed onto an effort spearheaded by the Association to Preserve Cape Cod, and endorsed by two dozen local groups, to urge the State of Massachusetts to…
Continue readingU.S. Senator Ed Markey (D-MA)A new GAO report, requested by U.S. Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass., photo left) and U.S. Rep. Michael Burgess (R-Texas), finds that the shuttered U.S. Enrichment Corporation (USEC) facility received hundreds of millions…
Continue readingNEIS Board Member Linda Lewison in discussion with Environmental Law Policy Center’s Barry Matchett in Springfield, IL. Photo courtesy of NEIS.As related in a Nuclear Energy Information Service (NEIS) press release, an Illinois State House of Rep…
Continue readingThe U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission snuck out a major decision on the Friday before Memorial Day Weekend. Its generic study of whether or not to require the expedited transfer of “spent nuclear fuel” (irradiated nuclear fuel rods, highly radioac…
Continue readingEnvironmental coalition attorney Terry LodgeAn environmental coalition, represented by attorney Terry Lodge of Toledo (photo, left), has filed a defense of its contention alleging that FirstEnergy Nuclear Operating Company’s (FENOC) Davis-Besse atomic …
Continue readingArnie GundersenAs posted on the Fairewinds Energy Education website:
CNN called Arnie Gundersen to learn about the use of kitty litter at the DOE’s Waste Isolation Pilot Project facility in New Mexico, which is being blamed for radiation leaks….
U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Chairwoman of the Environment and Public Works CommitteeU.S. Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA, photo at left), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW), Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Senato…
Continue readingAt the urging of environmental allies in southeast Michigan, Beyond Nuclear in March 2012 prepared a backgrounder on reactor, radioactive waste, and other nuclear risks in the region. The backgrounder has been updated for use at a presentation by Beyon…
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