The 38+ minutes of terror felt by the residents of Hawaii after receiving a text alert about incoming nuclear missiles that proved to be a mistake, was a reminder that so-called civil defense is fundamentally useless. People sheltered in their bathroom…
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An op-ed by Joe Cirincione published in Defense One.
Cirincione is president of Ploughshares Fund and the author of Nuclear Nightmares: Securing the World Before It Is Too Late.
On this Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday, Cirincione reflects…
As reported by Adam Mount in The Atlantic.
The article is sub-titled “A leaked draft of the Trump administration’s nuclear-weapons plan imagines a more dangerous world.”
It begins:
As Americans question whether President Donald Trump has the judg…
As reported by David R. Baker in the San Francisco Chronicle.
San Luis Obispo Mothers for Peace (MFP) and Friends of the Earth have issued statements.
See here for more info. on this historic victory for a genuinely clean energy future, free from dirt…
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) unanimously rejected Energy Secretary Rick Perry’s proposal to rig the nation’s competitive wholesale marketing of electricity with a colossally expensive bailout through rate tariffs for fina…
Continue readingIt was front page news on the conservative Wall Street Journal. The headlines ran: Federal Regulators Rule Against Trump Administration on Power Plants. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission rebuffs plan to aid coal-fired and nuclear power plants.” (WSJ…
Continue readingPlutonium was jettisoned into the sea by the stricken Apollo 13 after its aborted moon mission. The ill-fated Challenger had been slated to carry deadly plutonium on a scheduled mission that would have followed the January 1986 launch that ended in tra…
Continue readingTaking action locally to combat climate change The Thomas fire, now the largest in California history, swept through parts of Ventura County leaving fear, destruction, massive loss and plumes of smoke clearly viewable from outer space. The link… Critics Demand … Continue reading
PG&E Disputes ALJ’s Diablo Canyon Recommendation | RTO Insider PG&E says it will challenge a California ALJ’s recommendation that it be granted only $190 million for the retirement of the Diablo Canyon nuclear plant. The problem with subsidizing nuclear … Continue reading
Georgia Public Service Commission chairman Stan Wise revealed earlier that the political fix was in on the vote to extend the construction of Plant Vogtle Units 3 & 4 telling a local radio station the day before the commission vote that it won…
Continue readingFrom the Japan Times:
Wednesday’s ruling by the Hiroshima High Court halting the planned restart of a nuclear reactor in Ehime Prefecture has cast doubt on the judgment of Japan’s Nuclear Regulation Authority — which had approved…
Continue readingThe grass was already growing long — and over — the Nugen sign at the site of the Cumbria UK proposed new 3-reactor site when the project got kicked a bit further into the long grass.
The original proposal was for three Toshiba-Westinghous…
Two women, spanning generations and cultures, accepted the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize on December 10, presented by a third woman, Berit Reiss-Andersen, Chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee. The prize, which was announced on October 6, went to the Interna…
Continue readingAs reported by Juliet Eilperin in the Washington Post.
Mary Papenfuss also reported on this story in Huffington Post, including that a coalition of environmental groups, Native American nations, scientists, and businesses are countering the Trump admin…
Saudi Arabia’s Energy Minister Khalid al-Falih is extending invitations to the U.S. nuclear industry to launch the Gulf Region’s most ambitious nuclear power program.
The Saudi atomic energy plan is to build as many as 17 nuclear power…
See the letter, sent by 104 mayors and other elected officials throughout the Great Lakes basin, to Canada’s Environment and Climate Change Minister, Catherine McKenna. Their demand is that she reject Ontario Power Generation’s Deep Geologic Rep…
Continue readingIn a November 24 column in Counterpunch, Beyond Nuclear’s Linda Pentz Gunter reports on the radioactiveplume of ruthenium 106, detected in Europe and seemingly emanating from deep inside Russia, and possibly — or even probably — from the Mayak nuclea…
Continue readingWhat kind of deadly disaster could the Trump administration wreak in space? Beyond Nuclear board member and journalist, Karl Grossman, sounds an ominous warning.
“With Trump as president and green lights given to industry after industry to do or contin…
In Counterpunch today, our article about the lame attempts by nuclear propagandists at the COP23 in Bonn to sell nuclear by dissing bananas. Seriously. Here’s our intro. Then read more.
“We’ve heard this nonsense before, of course — that ba…
November 14 hearings called by Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chair, Bob Corker (R-TN) around President Trump’s ability to launch an unprovoked nuclear attack, failed to get consensus or a resolution. The hearings were prompted by Senator Ed …
Continue readingAmy Goodman, host of Democracy Now!As reported by Democracy Now!
The Trump administration, which has decided to make the United States the only country in the world to not subscribe to the Paris Climate Agreement, met with fierce and impassioned resist…
In January 2017, the Barnett government in Western Australia approved the Yeelirrie uranium mine against advice from the Environmental Protection Authority and against the wishes of Aboriginal traditional owners. The decision, if the mine goes ahead, w…
Continue readingThe Iran nuclear deal is working and a majority of Americans support it (see diagram above.) In a nutshell, the landmark 2015 framework agreement, forged between Iran and the U.S., U.K., Russia, France, China, Germany and the European Union, effec…
Continue readingFrench farmer, Jean-Pierre Simon was today handed down a two-month jail sentence for loaning his tractor and other agricultural equipment to a group protesting the proposed high-level radioactive waste dump in Bure, France. Visibly stunned by the verdi…
Continue readingIn 2008, Swiss physician, Dr. Martin Vosseler, walked across the United States to bring attention to global warming and to solar energy. In this inteview, Dr. Vosseler eloquently reminds us why our planet is so precious and the moral imperative to pres…
Continue readingStatement on Nobel Peace Prize 2017
It is a great honour to have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 2017 in recognition of our role in achieving the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. This historic agreement, adopted on 7 July with the b…
The Norwegian Nobel Committee has announced the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize is being awarded to ICAN, the International Coalition to Abolish Nuclear Weapons! ICAN, also a laureate of the Nuclear-Free Futures Award, recently succeeded in the passage of a Tre…
Continue readingAs reported by the Washington Post.
See Peace Action’s alert, for what you can do!
Trump’s DOE seeks to further heavily subsidize new and old atomic reactors, which would put renewables at a massive competitive disadvantage! On the very same day that Energy Secretary Rick Perry offered Southern Co. et al. additional bi…
Continue readingThe Trump administration’s Department of Energy (DOE) has, shockingly, just offered Southern Nuclear and its partners in the construction of the Vogtle 3 & 4 new reactors in Georgia a $3.7 billion (yes, with a B!) federal taxpayer-backed…
Continue readingSometimes the best way to spread the message and communicate the injustice of the nuclear industry is through music. Here are Hatutaki-Wakazi feat and Sophie & the Harmonies on uranium mining plans in Tanzania.
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After declaring bankruptcy, Suniva, Inc. on April 26, 2017 led a petition with the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) asking the government to put its thumb on the scale of the U.S. solar market. On May 25, SolarWorld Americas announced it …
Continue readingTo most, a major nuclear accident means Chernobyl or Fukushima. But the world’s third most deadly nuclear disaster happened 60 years ago, on September 29, 1957, at the Mayak plutonium production facility, in a closed Soviet city. High-level nuclear was…
Continue readingNuclear-Free Future Award winner, Susi Snyder, of PAX, recently appeared on Democracy Now! to explain the significance of the UN nuclear weapons ban treaty. Wrote Democracy Now! on its website:
“Amid tensions over North Korea’s nuclear and missil…
On September 26, we should remember the man who saved the world.
“Petrov was the lieutenant colonel in the Soviet Union’s Air Defense Forces who, on the night of September 26, 1983 just happened to be in charge of monitoring his country&rsq…
As reported by Democracy Now!:
Amid tensions over North Korea’s nuclear and missile tests, 51 countries have signed the world’s first legally binding treaty banning nuclear weapons. It prohibits the development, testing and possession …
A four-day conference — Human Rights, Future Generations and Crimes Against the Nuclear Age, held September 14-17 in Basel, Switzerland, concluded on Sunday with the release of the Basel Declaration on human rights and trans-generational crimes…
Continue readingMartin Forwood and Janine-Allis Smith of Cumbrians Opposed to a Radioactive Environment were honored on Friday in Basel, Switzerland with the Nuclear-Free Future Award for Education. While they could not be there in person, Beyond Nuclear was honored t…
Continue readingThe below is an editorial response to an August guest commentary in the San Luis Obispo New Times using economic numbers to claim that it would be inordinately expensive to replace Diablo Canyon with solar power. Mr. Henry’s piece is … Continue reading
The following letter to the editor was published in the Los Angeles Times, written in response to a Sept. 11, 2017 L.A. Times editorial:
To the editor: For 15 years, hundreds of environmental groups have advocated for hardened on-site storage of i…
The new edition of the World Nuclear Energy Status Report has been released, with some key insights into the dwindling influence of nuclear energy worldwide. You can read and download the full 2017 report here. Here is a summary of findings in the…
Continue readingBeyond Nuclear today issued a press release pointing out that nuclear emergency plans would not work in the reality of chaos and destruction already caused by a massive hurricane such as Irma. Read the full press release here.
An excerpt:
Two Florida n…
Turkey Point Units 3 & 4, Homestead, FLThe Texas Gulf Coast cleanup from Hurricane Harvey has just begun as flood waters recede from around the South Texas Project nuclear power station near Bay City and its surrounding emergency planning zone. Whi…
Continue readingThere is no certainty yet about whether Hurricane Irma, which could make landfall as a category 4 or 5, will hit Florida and, if so, which parts. But reactors at Turkey Point, 35 miles south of Miami, and St. Lucie, 25 miles south of Vero Beach, could …
Continue readingAs it turns out, ostriches don’t really bury their heads in the sand. But since this is a popular metaphor, its application could never be more appropriate than when applied to the goings-on around the French EPR reactor project in Flamanville on…
Continue readingIn a reminder of how dangerous it is to oppose the nuclear power industry in some countries comes disturbing news from Tanzania. Tundu Lissu, an outspoken lawyer, human rights activist, opposition member of the Tanzanian Parliament, and a critic of ext…
Continue readingBeyond Nuclear has signed onto a new letter from marine wildlife, environmental and conservation groups calling on authorities in Japan to avoid at all cost the dumping of hundreds and thousands of tons of radioactively contaminated water into the…
Continue readingBeyond Nuclear and Texas watchdog groups SEED Coalition and the South Texas Association for Responsible Energy are calling upon the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the operators of the South Texas nuclear power plant to put …
Continue readingPaul Gunter was a guest on the Thom Hartmann RT show to talk about the collapse of the nuclear industry and atomic waste dumping from Fukushima’s ongoing disaster and TEPCO’s icewall around the intensely radioactive wreckage and three missing reactor c…
Continue readingOn October 28, 2015, Beyond Nuclear was honored to be the presenter of the Nuclear-Free Future Award (NFFA) to Tony deBrum, Former Republic of the Marshall Islands Foreign Minister. Tony worked tirelessly to bring the world’s attention to the dea…
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