As reported by NBC News’s Bill Dedman, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s (NRC) Office of Public Affairs defended its own image, as well as that of the nuclear power industry, as its top priority during the first days of the fast-breaking Fukushi…
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Hydrogen explosion at Fukushima Daiichi Unit 3 in mid-March 2011, which turned the reactor building into rubble and deposited 50 tons of debris into the high-level radioactive waste storage poolAs the fourth year of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear catast…
Continue readingThe EPA is considering revising its limits for radiation releases and doses to the public from normal operation of nuclear power and other uranium facilities. In the Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPR), EPA makes clear that it is not proposi…
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Some excerpts:
“Few lessons from Fukushima have been learned in the U.S. One of the most important should be that high density U.S. pools are emptied into hardened on-site storage as soon as possible, before the …
As reported by The Milan News-Leader, the City of Milan in Southeast MI has joined dozens of other municipalities in Ontario, Michigan, Ohio, and beyond in passing a resolution opposed to the DUD (Deep Underground Dump) for so-called “low” and “…
Entergy’s Palisades atomic reactor, and the Great Lake and surrounding region it puts at riskThe Kalamazoo Gazette has reported that a hunk of extraneous metal has become wedged in the reactor at Entergy’s Palisades on the Lake Michigan shore in s.w. M…
Continue readingPalisades, Lake Michigan, and the region at riskBeyond Nuclear has joined with long-time watchdogs on the government-nuclear industry complex in Michigan, including Don’t Waste MI and MSEF, to decry a proposed bill before the State House of Representat…
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Karl Grossman, reknowned author and educator on the inherent hazards of nuclear technology, brings us up to date on the ongoing catastrophe of Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident which began on March 11, 2011.
A nuclear accident has occurred at the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Waste Isolation Pilot Plant deep underground near Carlsbad, New Mexico. The WIPP site stores nuclear waste, principally plutonium-239, plutonium-240 and americium-241 contaminate…
Continue readingUnbowed and unrepentant, Sister Megan Rice, Greg Boertije-Obed and Michael Walli of the “Transform Now Plowshares” were sentenced on February 18, 2014 by U.S. District Court Judge Amul Thaper. They are to serve 3 to 5 years in federal priso…
Continue readingEnvironmental coalition attorney Diane CurranA Petition for Rulemaking was filed on Feb. 18th by Washington, D.C.-based attorney, Diane Curran (photo, left), as well as Mindy Goldstein of the Emory U. Turner Environmental Law Clinic, to the U.S. Nuclea…
Continue readingNRC file photo of NRC inspector visually examining severe cracking in Davis-Besse’s Shield Building wall in Oct., 2011.FirstEnergy Nuclear Operating Company (FENOC) ran its Davis-Besse atomic reactor to the breaking point in 2002. The Hole-in-the-Head …
Continue readingAerial image of Plant Vogtle Nuclear Generating Station – photo credit to High Flyer. The photo shows the operating Units 1 and 2, as well as the construction site for proposed new Units 3 and 4.U.S. Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz has announced th…
Continue readingAlfred Meyer, PSR board memberAlfred Meyer (photo, left), national board member of Physicians for Responsibility (PSR), spoke throughout Michigan on a tour organized by Beyond Nuclear from Feb. 12-17. His presentations of “Nuclear Power: What You Need …
Continue readingIn a pair of articles, E&E’s Hannah Northey reports that nuclear utility giants such as Exelon and Entergy are lobbying hard for changes to electricity marketplace rules that would enable them to keep uncompetitive atomic reactors operating. For it…
Continue readingAs reported by Crain’s Chicago Business, Exelon — the largest nuclear utility in the U.S. — is considering shuttering its Quad Cities nuclear power plant, because it cannot compete on the wholesale electricity market. Quad Cities consists of two …
Continue readingIf you live in the Washington, DC or New York metro area, please consider attending the International Uranium FIlm Festival. It comes to DC February 10, 11 and 12 and to Brooklyn, NY February 14-19. The DC festival, at the Goethe-Institut, opens with T…
Continue readingHarvey Wasserman edits www.nukefree.org, and wrote Solartopia! Our Green-Powered Earth. Harvey has published the first of a two part series at EcoWatch, entitled “50 Reasons We Should Fear the Worst from Fukushima.”
Part Two will be on how Fukushi…
American folk icon Pete Seeger passed away on January 27, 2014 at 94 years old.
Pete was more than America’s beloved folklorist and singer, he was a nonviolent troubadour waging world peace and justice, a balladeer to save the environment for fut…
Dr. Jeffrey PattersonIt is with heavy heart, deep sadness and sense of loss, that Beyond Nuclear pays tribute to Dr. Jeffrey Patterson at the time of his unexpected death due to a heart attack on the night of January 23. Dr. Patterson had long served -…
Continue readingDr. Jeff Patterson, President, PSRDr. Jeffrey Patterson (photo, left), President of Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR), will present on “Nuclear Power: What You Need to Know about Price, Pollution and Proliferation” at several stops across sout…
Continue readingYard signs created by Michigan Safe Energy Future–Kalamazoo Chapter
Entergy Nuclear: Resisting a Rogue Corporation and its Radioactive Risks
A presentation by Chris Williams of Vermont Citizens Action Network as well as Vermont Yankee Decommissioning …
On Thursday evening, Jan. 2nd, Thom Hartmann hosted Beyond Nuclear’s Kevin Kamps on his television program, in a segment entitled “Military poisoned by Fukushima radiation,” to discuss the apparent radiation sickness and maladies suffered by sailors wh…
Continue readingAerial image of Plant Vogtle Nuclear Generating Station – photo credit to High Flyer. The photo shows the operating Units 1 and 2, as well as the construction site for proposed new Units 3 and 4.As reported by Platts, and conveyed in a Friends of the E…
Continue readingAerial image of Plant Vogtle Nuclear Generating Station – photo credit to High Flyer. The photo shows the operating Units 1 and 2, as well as the construction site for proposed new Units 3 and 4.As reported by Platts, and conveyed in a Friends of the E…
Continue readingAerial image of Plant Vogtle Nuclear Generating Station – photo credit to High Flyer. The photo shows the operating Units 1 and 2, as well as the construction site for proposed new Units 3 and 4.As reported by Platts, and conveyed in a Friends of the E…
Continue readingAerial image of Plant Vogtle Nuclear Generating Station – photo credit to High Flyer. The photo shows the operating Units 1 and 2, as well as the construction site for proposed new Units 3 and 4.As reported by Platts, and conveyed in a Friends of the E…
Continue readingLeRoy Moore, Ph.D. of the Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice Center, has written the following memorial:
“Remembering Ken Gordon: Wins acquittal in court for those resisting Rocky Flats On Sunday, December 28, former Colorado Senate Majority Leader Ken …
Beyond Nuclear board member Kay Drey, long-time anti-nuclear watchdog, including on the West Lake Landfill’s radioactive wastesThe Wall Street Journal has reported (“Neighbors Fume at Radioactive Dump: Legacy of Atomic-Era Weapons Work in St. Louis Su…
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 in Rockville, MD. Photo credit Da…
Continue readingEnvironmental coalition attorney Diane CurranAn environmental coalition of nearly three dozen groups, including Beyond Nuclear, has submitted comments on the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s (NRC) “Nuclear Waste Confidence” Draft Generic Environmen…
Continue readingStreet theater performers, activist supporters, and members of the news media in front of DOE HQ on Dec. 11, 2009 protesting nuclear loan guarantees in solidarity with an International Climate Day of ActionAs the Vogtle 3 & 4 new reactor constr…
Continue readingMark Cooper of Vermont Law SchoolOn Thurs., Dec. 19th at 11 AM Eastern, Diane Curran and Mark Cooper (photo, left), attorney and expert witness, respectively, representing a coalition of dozens of environmental groups, including Beyond Nuclear, will …
Continue readingVirginia Uranium, the company hoping to mine the Coles Hill site in Virginia, has suspended plans for the project. Despite investing hundreds of thousands of dollars in junkets to France and Canada for Virginia legislators and other lobbying efforts, t…
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 in Rockville, MD. Photo cre…
Continue readingRalph NaderOn Dec. 12th, Beyond Nuclear’s Kevin Kamps joined with Ralph Nader (photo, left) in an hour-long presentation to the Climate Reality Check Coalition on why nuclear power is a false solution to the climate crisis.
As described in the event an…
Beyond Nuclear is pleased to be associated with Beyond Business as Usual (BBAU), a coalition of environmental groups opposed to dirty energy, such as fossil fuels and nuclear power, and advocates for clean energy (efficiency and renewables). Beyond…
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 in Rockville, MD. Photo credit …
Continue reading“We don’t do nuclear energy” was the categorical pronouncement made this week by the president of the World Bank, Jim Yong Kim. The World Bank says it will not fund nuclear power instead giving development money to sustainable ene…
Continue readingBeyond Nuclear is headquartered, appropriately, in the nuclear-free city of Takoma Park. On December 14th, the City of Takoma Park will celebrate 30 years as a nuclear-free zone. We encourage all those within reach of Takoma Park to join us for the eve…
Continue readingA message from Debra Stoleroff of Vermont Yankee Decommissioning Alliance (VYDA):
After more than 40 years, our efforts have paid off and the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant is closing in 2014 and will be decommissioned. There are many…
Robert Alvarez, Senior Scholar, Institute for Policy StudiesRobert Alvarez (photo, left), Senior Scholar at Institute for Policy Studies, has prepared a report entitled “The West Lake Landfill: A Radioactive Legacy of the Nuclear Arms Race.”
In 1973, t…
Arnie GundersenMaggie GundersenThis just out from Fairewinds Energy Education:
“This video is a presentation Arnie and Maggie Gundersen gave at Clarkson University to a Business Ethics course on October 22, 2013. The Gundersens discuss their experien…
U.S. Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA)U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA)On Nov. 21st, a group of ten Democratic U.S. Senators wrote U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) Chairwoman Allison Macfarlane regarding their concerns about new agency policies restricting tr…
Continue readingWill the Yucca dump zombie rise again? Nevada says NO! Political cartoon by Jim Day, Las Vegas Review Journal, 2010 (be sure to count the toes!)In 1987, it was “Screw Nevada.” Now, it appears to be “screw the taxpayer,” and “screw future generations.”
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Beyond Nuclear’s Kevin Kamps (near left) debated Breakthrough Institute’s Michael Shellenberger (far left) in Headline News “The Lion’s Den” November 7, 2013 over Robert Stone’s one-side nuclear power promotional film “Pandora’s Promise.”
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Continue readingRead the oped by Linda Gunter and Kevin Kamps, published by CNN, on why nuclear power is not the answer to climate change. The oped was commissioned to rebut CNN’s screening of Pandora’s Promise on November 7th.
Here is the lead, then read more:
The cl…
Reports Deadline Hollywood: “Well, one thing is for sure: Cable news viewers like films about killer whales a lot more than ones about pro-nuclear power. CNN’s airing of the documentary Pandora’s Promise delivered a wet 345,0…
Continue readingArnie Gundersen, Chief Engineer, Fairewinds Associates, Inc.Arnie Gundersen, Chief Engineer at Fairewinds Associates, Inc. (photo, left), testified before the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s (NRC) Atomic Safety and Licensing Board (ASLB) on behalf…
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