Ian Zabarte speaking at a press conference at a Nuclear Forum event he organized at the University of Nevada at Las Vegas in 2016.More than 900 nuclear tests were conducted on Shoshone territory in the US. Residents still live with the consequences.
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As reported by CBS 2 Iowa.
Duane Arnold, a Fukushima Daiichi twin design (a General Electric Mark I Boiling Water Reactor), had long been scheduled for a “late” 2020 closure, as reported by The Gazette in Cedar Rapids, IA. More recently, the permanent …
NRC file photo of Duane Arnold atomic reactor.As reported by CBS 2 Iowa.
Duane Arnold, a Fukushima Daiichi twin design (a General Electric Mark I Boiling Water Reactor), had long been scheduled for a “late” 2020 closure, as reported by The Gazette in C…
According to a new report from Moody’s Investors Service, dozens of US nuclear power plants “will face growing credit risks” due to their physical vulnerability to the ever-worsening extremes of climate change. Flooding, h…
Continue readingThe Beirut explosion was frightening, and the damage devastating enough, resembling a scaled down atomic blast. But what if radioactive materials had been involved?
That was on the minds of many when bomb disposal teams arrived at &md…
Continue readingA state moratorium banning uranium mining in the Commonwealth of Virginia has stood since 1982. But in 2007, a Canadian company called Virginia Uranium Inc., partnered with a landowner at Coles Hill in Pittsylvania County, Virginia, to try to overturn…
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Wednesday’s regular segment, Beyond Nuclear, is about nuclear issues, including weapons, energy, waste, and the future of nuclear technology in the United States. Kevin Kamps, the Rad…
Continue readingOp-ed in the Star-Telegram, written by Peggy Hendon and Linda Hanratty.
Peggy Hendon is president of the League of Women Voters of Tarrant County. Linda Hanratty is the group’s environmental chairwoman.
See Beyond Nuclear’s public comments, posted at our Repositories website section.
See the backgrounder, “WIPP History: The Forever WIPP Expansion & the New Shaft Permit Modification,” dated July 20, 2020, posted at the CCNS (Concerned Citizens for …
ComEd customers in Illinois have filed a class action lawsuit to demand at least $150 million compensation
Commonwealth Edison customers have filed a civil racketeering class action lawsuit (RICO) against Illinois Speaker of the House Michael Madi…
Ohio’s high-profile bailout of nuclear plants is just one of several questionable schemes between lawmakers and energy companies.
As reported by Akela Lacy at The Intercept.
Ireland, Nigeria and Niue commemorated Hiroshima Day by ratifying the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW). This means the Treaty needs just 7 more ratifications to reach the necessary 50 to become international law. The Treaty will e…
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Wednesday’s regular segment, B…
This week we mark 75 years since the tragic and unnecessary atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Beyond Nuclear and the Nuclear Free Takoma Park Committee are pleased to let you know that you can now see a film free online about the decades-…
Continue readingSee Beyond Nuclear’s Centralized Storage website section, for sample comments you can use to write your own for submission to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) by the Sept. 22nd (Holtec/ELEA, NM) and Nov. 3rd (ISP/WCS, TX) deadlines.
Holtec …
Tomorrow, August 5th, commemorations of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings by the United States, 75 years ago, will begin in earnest, and will continue through August 9th. Beyond Nuclear has posted a long listing of these events at our NUCL…
Continue readingCriminal nuclear scandals involving financial boons to the economically collapsing nuclear power industry rocked three states last week. Beyond Nuclear reported on the most dramatic of the three — in Ohio — on Beyond Nuclear International. This week,…
Continue readingCorruption scandals in Ohio and Illinois reveal an unsavory underside to the politics of energy.
An opinion column by Justin Gillis in the New York Times, focused on the nuclear bribery/bailout scandals in Ohio and Illinois.
As reported by the Post and Courier.
Not mentioned in the article is the fact that David Wright, who presided over the Summer 2 & 3 debacle as president of the South Carolina Public Service Commission, was nonetheless “promoted” by President Trump …
Message from Chuck Woolride, All Souls’ Heiwa Peace Project, Washington, D.C.–
As part of All Souls [Unitarian Church, Washington, D.C.] 75th Hiroshima Commemoration, please join us for viewing the film and a discussion at 8 pm.
Here i…
Continue readingAs the Honorable U.S. Representative John Robert Lewis (Democrat-Georgia-5th) was laid to rest in power yesterday, it is fitting to remember his good environmental justice votes against radioactively racist high-level radioactive waste dumps in the pas…
Continue readingLarry Householder, the now former Speaker of the OH House, arrested July 21 for the biggest criminal racketeering scheme in the state’s history, was stripped of the Speakership in a unanimous vote on July 30.
By a 90-vote in the Ohio House, Householder…
Arizona train derailment and fire described as ‘a scene from hell’
as reported by CNN.
Depending on the temperature and duration of a fire, high-level radioactive waste shipping containers could be breached. The design criteria for such containers is f…
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Wednesday’s regular segment, …
Continue readingNM Gov. Michelle Lujan GrishamOn 7/28, NM Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham (photo, left) wrote the president a strongly worded letter, opposing environmentally unjust high-level radioactive waste consolidated interim storage facilities targeted at her s…
Continue readingArrests of individuals in Ohio and South Carolina related to criminal activity and fraud to keep old reactors running (OH) and keep new ones under construction (SC and now abandoned) made headlines last week. We explain what happened on this week’s edi…
Continue readingPoliticians and lobbyists have been arrested in Ohio for criminal racketeering, a scheme involving bribery and corruption to score a $1.5 billion state subsidy for two failing nuclear power plants. A total of $61 million was paid by the plants’ owners …
Continue readingNobel Peace Prize-winning Hibakusha, Setsuko Thurlow, makes her appeal for global nuclear disarmament as we head toward the August 6 and 9 commemorations of the dropping of atomic bombs by the US on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Setsuko Thurlow – Nobel Lect…
Continue readingMore shoes will drop and more arrests will likely come in Ohio as we watch the biggest criminal racketeering conspiracy in Ohio history continue to unfold. But to date, we are seeing the desperation of the bankrupt nuclear industry in full flow –…
Continue readingKarl GrossmanInvestigative journalist Karl Grossman (photo, left), a Beyond Nuclear board member, has published an article in Counterpunch that begins:
The U.S. Attorney’s Office and FBI this week charged the speaker of the Ohio House of Represe…
Just two days after arrests were made in Ohio related to criminal racketeering that ensured the owners of two failing nuclear plants got massive state subsidies, an arrest has been made in South Carolina over another nuclear-related conspiracy.
As The …
Siegfried (Ziggy) Kleinau, wearing his CFRE tee shirt, on his WWOOF.Beyond Nuclear is saddened to share the news that our pro-renewable and anti-nuclear ally in Ontario, Canada has passed on at age 91. Long serving coordinator of Citizens for Renewable…
Continue readingAs reported by Ian Cross at News5Cleveland:
Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder and four of his associates have been arrested on charges in relation to “what is likely the largest bribery, money laundering scheme ever perpetrated against the…
“Nuclear Free Future” host Margaret HarringtonOn July 17, 2020, “Nuclear Free Future” host Margaret Harrington interviewed Alfred Meyer of Physicians for Social Responsibility and Kevin Kamps of Beyond Nuclear. The program is produced by and airs on C…
Continue readingHere is the announcement:
FBI Raids/Arrests Ohio House Speaker Householder et.al. re: Ohio’s Billion Dollar Bailout of Two DANGEROUSLY Age-Degraded Nuclear Power Plants… – Kevin Kamps, Radioactive Waste Specialist – Beyond Nuclear
The audio recordi…
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Wednesday’s regular segment, Beyond Nuclear, is about nuclear issues, including weapons, energy, waste, and the future of nuclear technology in the United States. Kevin Kamps, the R…
As posted at Global Zero’s website:
July 20, 2020
We are saddened to announce that Dr. Bruce G. Blair, Co-Founder of Global Zero and President of its Board of Directors, died unexpectedly on Sunday, July 19, following a sudden illness.
Derek Joh…
As reported by The Intercept.
The Nevada National Security Site (formerly known as the Nevada Test Site), where the U.S. and U.K. governments “test” detonated more than 900 full-scale nuclear weapons between 1951 and 1992 (and sub-critical nuclear weap…
A brilliant 2-minute video by Anna Luisa Schmidt, sums up the fundamental wrong about nuclear power.
Darkroom from Anna Lu on Vimeo.
The Uranium Atlas, the first ever map of the world of uranium, is now officially available on line, for viewing and free download. It is in the commons, so you are also free to publish it on your own websites.
The official launch was today, July 1…
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Wednesday’s regular segment, Beyond Nuclear, is about nuclear issues, including weapons, energy, waste, and the future of nuclear technology in the United States. Kevin Kamps, the Rad…
Continue readingJuly 16 marks the anniversary of the 1945 Trinity atomic test and the 1979 Church Rock uranium spill disaster, both in New Mexico, USA. On July 16, 2020, Beyond Nuclear, in partnership with the Nuclear Free Future Foundation, the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftun…
Continue readingPlease join us for the global launch of the English language edition of the Uranium Atlas. The Atlas maps out uranium, where it is, what it has been (mis)used for, who has suffered as a result, and the ugly path that nuclear power and nuclear weapons h…
Continue readingAs announced by the NRC:
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has currently scheduled on final public meeting via webinar or call-in, soliciting comments on a Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) for Holtec International/Eddy Lea Energ…
#News, #energy, #environment, #nuclear, #regulation, #safety
Wednesday’s regular segment, Beyond Nuclear, is about nuclear issues, including weapons, energy, waste, and the future of nuclear technology in the United States. Kevin Kamps, the Ra…
Continue readingA new video from Pax Christi.
Continue readingBy Judy Treichel of Nevada Nuclear Waste Task Force, published in the Las Vegas Sun.
Continue readingBeyond Nuclear today decried the suppression of state assessments that could reveal plans to drastically raise the threshhold of radiation exposure before evacuating the public from a nuclear emergency under COVID-19 conditions. Beyond Nuclear pointed …
Continue readingNews, #energy, #environment, #nuclear, #regulation, #safety
Wednesday’s regular segment, Beyond Nuclear, is about nuclear issues, including weapons, energy, waste, and the future of nuclear technology in the United States. Kevin Kamps, the Rad…
Continue readingUnusually high-levels of man-made radioactive isotopes have been detected across Europe, coming from Western Russia. The Russians deny any problems with their nuclear power plants there. So what caused this latest radiation spike? Could it be another f…
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