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…
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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…
Continue readingIt is worth remembering that, while the spectre of nuclear weapons use — between the U.S. and North Korea — looms again, it was the work of the Hibakusha of Japan, and many others, that secured The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons at the …
Continue reading“First and foremost, a phase-out of nuclear power should define the foundation of the country’s new future perspective.” That was the bold statement in an editorial in the August 14 Asahi Shimbun. Nuclear has become deeply unpopular in Japan sinc…
Continue readingThere’s nothing like the scuttling of yet another nuclear pipe dream (this time it’s the two halted V.C. Summer reactors in South Carolina, pictured) to send the nuclear evangelists scurrying to find a last ditch way to stay relevant. SC Se…
Continue readingThe majority of pro-nuclear boosters appear finally to have swallowed a dose of reality — and have ceased clinging to the idea that “new nuclear power plants” and even “new reactor designs” will be the energy answer of the near future. The error- an…
Continue readingAs SF Gate reported: On August 9, 200 protesters gathered outside the gates of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory to commemorate the 72nd anniversary of the bomb that decimated Nagasaki, just three days after another atomic blast did the same t…
Continue readingA must read in The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists by Bob Alvarez, senior scholar at the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, DC and reknown published nuclear waste expert. Tens of thousands of extremely dangerous highly radioactive nuclear …
Continue readingAs reported by the Washington Post, U.S. intelligence agencies have concluded that the North Korean regime has not only succeeded in crossing another threshold toward full nuclear weapons status. It is the miniaturization of nuclear warheads, to fit in…
Continue readingAs hosted by Margaret Harrington on Channel 17/Town Meeting Television (Burlington, VT):
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Chris Williams, Vermont organizer for the Citizens Awareness Network, talks about the Vermont Yankee/North Star proposal which gives the Paris, Fra…
South Carolina electric utilities have scrapped finishing construction for two half-built and unproven Westinghouse reactors admitting that nuclear power is “prohibitively expensive.” The abandonment of the V.C. Summer Units 2 and 3 in Jenk…
Continue readingBeyond Nuclear’s Kevin Kamps appeared on Thom Hartmann’s “The Big Picture” to discuss the discovery, 6.5 years later, of melted core at Fukushima Daiichi Unit 3, as well as Tokyo Electric Power Company’s threat to simply release 770,000 metric tons (ar…
Continue reading“Why is this not a national story,?” asked New York film director, Rebecca Cammisa, whose new film, Atomic Homefront, will be screened on HBO. That was after she learned about the nuclear weapons waste — the oldest nuclear waste of the Atomic Age — t…
Continue readingPictures from a Hiroshima Schoolyard presents the aftermath of the first atomic bomb through the remarkable drawings and stories of surviving Japanese school children who were part of an extraordinary, compassionate exchange with their American c…
Continue readingThe nuclear “football” — always close to the PresidentWriting in The Nation this week, investigative journalist, Mark Hertsgaard, draws chilling attention to a frightening reality. “We need to get Donald Trump’s finger off the nuclear button,” he writ…
Continue readingA Federal judge has thrown out a challenge to the State of Illinois’ legislated bailout of its uneconomical nuclear power plants. The court decision has implications for legal challenges still underway in New York and anticipated in other states …
Continue readingIn September, the French nuclear safety authority, ASN, will render its final verdict on whether or not a flawed reactor vessel head, installed in the Flamanville reactor under construction in France, should stay put. ASN already hinted in July that it…
Continue readingFor the first time, the French government has put an actual number on planned nuclear reactor closures. It’s 17. The estimation was made by Environment Minister, Nicolas Hulot, a former environmental campaigner. While the reduction would achieve …
Continue readingFor the first time, the French government has put an actual number on planned nuclear reactor closures. It’s 17. The estimation was made by Environment Minister, Nicolas Hulot (pictured), a former environmental campaigner. While the reducti…
Continue readingA coalition of many hundreds of clean energy groups, including Beyond Nuclear, has written a letter to U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (Republican-Kentucky) and Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (Democrat-New York), in opposition to Senate Bill…
Continue readingA treaty designed to lead to the eventual elimination of all nuclear weapons was endorsed today at the United Nations by 122 countries. Inevitably, none of the nine nuclear weapons states signed the treaty, with, shamefully, the United States as the mo…
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Today at the United Nations, a majority of the world community signed a historic treaty: a legally binding instrument to prohibit nuclear weapons, leading towards their total elimination. This historic …
As if the idea of a floating nuclear power plant wasn’t insanity enough — read this week’s news of a possible fire on board a Russian one under construction — there is also a plutonium cargo under sail. Two heavily armed British gunshi…
Continue readingIn the midst of an ominous ICBM missile launch by North Korea, negotiations on a nuclear weapons prohibition treaty are set to conclude this Friday at the UN in New York. They follow a UN resolution adopted in October 2016 and approved by 123…
Continue readingThe Tennessee Valley Authority says it wants to develope the decades-old small modular reactor concept at the Oak Ridge laboratory (pictured). The Southern Alliance of Clean Energy (SACE) is among the groups opposing this. “We are concerned that billio…
Continue readingWrites John Tierney, executive director of the Council for a Livable World, the the defense authorization bill soon under consideration in the U.S. House is a disaster for safety, security and the economy. Worse yet, “The Chairman of the House of…
Continue readingBeyond Nuclear joined with a 50-group environmental coalition, spearheaded by Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), to urge members of the U.S. House of Represenatives Energy & Commerce Committee to vote against the latest incarnation of the Sc…
Continue readingA Delaware federal judge on Wednesday blocked the $367 million merger of EnergySolutions Inc. and Waste Control Specialists LLC, siding with the U.S. Department of Justice in the government’s bid to enjoin the deal on antitrust grounds. [This …
Continue readingBeyond Nuclear is asking the U.S. Nuclear Regulator Commission (NRC) to verify that a pressure vessel head installed in the now closed Crystal River nuclear reactor in Florida came from the controversial Creusot Forge in France, currently under investi…
Continue readingA former investor in nuclear power plants predicts that every planned new UK nuclear power plant will get canceled except Hinkley C and even that one is hanging by a thread. In a Reuters article that appeared in the New York Times on June 19,…
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Continue readingThe collapse and bankruptcy of the Westinghouse electric company has already thrown its Japanese parent company, Toshiba into a financial downward spriral. Now another Japanese company, Hitachi, is looking to escape the extreme financial commitment to …
Continue readingAs explained in this short video from the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, the current so-called missile defense program is ineffective, unnecessary and exorbitantly expensive. But with nuclear sabres rattling in North Korea, some M…
Continue readingIn a submission to the Ontario Energy Board this week, the Canadian Manufacturers & Exporters (CME) association states that it is now convinced that “OPG’s plan to extend operations at Pickering is not economically feasible and, far fro…
Continue readingBeyond Nuclear has joined an initiative of the Multicultural Alliance for a Safe Environment (MASE) to campaign for justice and compensation for the uranium miners at the front end of the nuclear fuel chain. Currently, the 1990 Radiation Exposure and C…
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Continue readingBeyond Nuclear’s Radioactive Waste Watchdog, Kevin Kamps, presented at the 2017 Heartwood “Strong Roots!” forest protection council on Sat., May 27th.
Kevin’s talk was entitled “Head-On Collision: Chevron Deference Meets Mobile Chernobyl on Steroids.” …
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Continue readingThe Alliance for Nuclear Accountability (ANA) will honor an impressive line-up of individuals and organizations at its May 23, 2017 awards reception on Capitol Hill. This year’s winners are:
* Representative Ted Lieu — For leadership in in…
Transfer containers used to unload highly radioactive liquid waste from Canada may not provide adequate radiological shielding for workers at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina where the first shipment was recently unloaded. In a press release t…
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