As reported by the Associated Press and published in the New York Times.
Continue readingAA – Wildfire nears Chernobyl nuclear plant in Ukraine – Elena Teslova
Reuters – Fire raging near Ukraine’s Chernobyl poses radiation risk, say activists – By Margaryta Chornokondratenko and Alexander Marrow
UrduPoint – Chernobyl Forest Fire Nears N…
Daily Mail – Exclusion Zone burning for eight days are now ‘close’ to exploded nuclear reactor amid new fears of radiation contamination – By Jack Wright For Mailonline
As posted on April 12, 2020 at the State of Nevada Agency for Nuclear Projects’ …
Continue readingTerrified Atomic Workers Warn That the COVID-19 Pandemic May Threaten Nuclear Reactor Disaster
As reported by Harvey Wasserman and published at LA Progressive.
VOA News – US Nuclear Waste Cleanup Delayed – Susan Montoya Bryan
As posted at the State of Nevada Agency for Nuclear Projects’ “What’s News?” website section.
Continue readingBeyond Nuclear joined with 74 environmental coalition partner groups in sending this letter to Congressional leadership. It opposes a bailout for the uranium mining industry in any future COVID-19 emergency response legislation.
Continue readingFor Immediate Release: April 09, 2020
Contact: Paul Gunter, Reactor Oversight Project, Beyond Nuclear,301-523-0201
TAKOMA PARK, MD — The nuclear power industry should not be allowed to significantly increase nuclear safety risks while jeopardizin…
As reported by Clean Energy Wire.
Continue readingInstead of hiring additional staff to inspect and maintain the nation’s nuclear power plants as more workers catch the COVID-19 novel coronavirus, the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) and the plants it supervises are pushing healthy wo…
Continue readingFermi Unit 2, on the Lake Erie shore. NRC file photo. Fermi 2 is the largest Fukushima Daiichi twin design on Earth, a General Electric Mark I Boiling Water Reactor nearly as big as the melted down Fukushima Daiichi Units 1 & 2 put together.As repo…
Continue readingFrom politico.com:
DOE STAFFER DIES FROM CORONAVIRUS: An Energy Department employee who worked at the agency’s Washington headquarters has died after contracting the novel coronavirus, E&E News reports. The department als…
As reported by the Aiken Standard.
SRS is a major U.S. Department of Energy nuclear weapons complex facility in South Carolina.
Thank you to Scott Stapf of the Hastings Group for this tweet:
https://twitter.com/stapf/status/1247554886545354753
Here we have more shameless exploitation by the nuclear industry and its minions of the coronavirus pandemic. Thanks for showing us yo…
As reported by TBNewsWatch.com.
The site, midway between Ignace, Ontario and the Wabigoon Ojibway First Nation, is being targeted for Canada’s high-level radioactive waste dump. It is “in competition” with South Bruce, Ontario, very near the Bruce Nucl…
So wrote the State of Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection Secretary, Patrick McDonnell, to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Chairwoman, Kristine Svinicki. The DEP secretary wrote the NRC chair expressing many concerns regarding…
Continue readingAs reported by The Times-Tribune, re: the Susquehanna nuclear power plant in PA.
Continue readingTwo fires — one now extinguished, the other still burning — were deliberately set by an individual who said he set grass alight “for fun.” The man was apprehended but the larger fire still burning has spread to 250 acres of forest, and has increased …
Continue readingAs reported by the Pottstown Mercury in Pennsylvania.
Continue readingAs reported by Nuclear Intelligence Weekly (re-posted with permission).
The article quotes Beyond Nuclear:
Activists are concerned the agency’s approach to the Covid-19 crisis has left the door wide open for regulatory rollbacks that could compromise…
Vast Amounts of Rad Waste Slated for Disposal by Unlicensed Operators
As reported in a press release by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER).
As reported by TheReporterOnline.Com.
Continue readingWednesday’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 Radioactive Waste Watchdog at the organization Beyond Nuclear, …
Continue readingBeyond Nuclear was honored and privileged to join a coalition of more than 40 environmental and anti-nuclear organizations across the country, led by Natural Resources Defense Council, in submitting this powerful public comment to the U.S. Department o…
Continue readingAs reported by the Missoula Current. See the second story down the article.
The article reports:
[T]he TVA has worked to adapt to the crisis, including reducing power at some plants. One of its plants, Sequoyah, downsized its refueling crew from 1,00…
As reported by The Hill.
Not mentioned in this article though — and likely not mentioned in any of the current media coverage of the Comfort’s deployment to New York City — is that fact that, for at least a part of its life, the Comfort was anchored …
Thank you to Eric Epstein of Three Mile Island Alert (TMIA) for alerting us to this:
As published in the Press & Journal.
Also see two related articles at the bottom of the front page of the Press & Journal: “Watchdog group [TMIA] ready to buy,…
A message from Dave Lochbaum, formerly of UCS, who is serving as an expert witness in Beyond Nuclear’s intervention against the 80-year operations license at Peach Bottom nuclear power plant in PA:
Good Day:
Some thoughts on the potential impact of COV…
Thank you to Scott Stapf of the Hastings Group, for this most apt tweet:
OUTRAGEOUS: Nuclear industry lobbies Trump Admin for access to gloves, masks & other protective gear needed by frontline health care workers fighting the coronavirus pandem…
As reported by Public News Service.
Continue readingAs reported by the New York Times on March 17, 2020 in an article entitled “U.S. Virus Plan Anticipates 18-Month Pandemic and Widespread Shortages,” President Trump has been considering invoking the Defense Production Act (DPA) of 1950, to address th…
Continue readingGlobal wave and tidal stream energy production has risen tenfold over the last decade, reflecting global efforts to identify commercialisation pathways for ocean energy technologies, according to a new report, says the Maritime Journal.
Ocean Energy Sy…
The world’s wind power capacity grew by almost a fifth in 2019 after a year of record growth for offshore windfarms and a boom in onshore projects in the US and China, reports The Guardian.
The Global Wind Energy Council found that wind…
See the EPA’s official announcement, here.
See news coverage by The Hill, here: “EPA suspends enforcement of environmental laws amid coronavirus.”
The environmental movement must respond forcefully to this major attack by the Trump administration on th…
See Ed Lyman’s UCS “All Things Nuclear” post, here.
Continue readingAs reported by the New Times of San Luis Obispo, CA.
Continue readingEric Epstein, Chairman of TMIA, introduces Beyond Nuclear’s Kevin Kamps and Paul Gunter, at the PA State Capital Rotunda in Harrisburg, Oct. 2018.Listen here to the full episode, brought to you by Libbe HaLevy, Host and Producer.
This Week&rsquo…
NRC to relax reactor oversight and enforcement amid rising pandemic
On March 20, 2020, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) convened the first
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 Radioactive Waste Watchdog at the organization Beyond Nuclear, …
Continue readingAs reported by the New York Times.
Continue readingSee the NRC meeting announcement, including the agenda, posted here.
Title: Meeting with Nuclear Industry to Discuss COVID-19 Regulatory Impacts with respect to 10 CFR 50.55a, steam generator tube inspections, and other refueling outage is…
Continue readingNRC expects to issue guidelines this week on reactor staffing
Environmental groups concerned about violating safety rules
As reported by Bloomberg.
The article quotes Beyond Nuclear:
The prospect that reactor operators may be permitted t…
“The nuclear industry begged for a bailout last fall and is now using coronavirus to try and brazenly grab more cash,” warned Friends of the Earth.
As reported by CommonDreams.
As reported by Carolina Public Press:
Kevin Kamps of the organization Beyond Nuclear, a watchdog organization based in Maryland that advocates for abandoning nuclear power, participated in the meeting and told CPP that “most of the content of …
As reported by Bellona.
Continue readingAs reported by Reuters and published in the New York Times.
The article reports:
Maria Korsnick, president of the Nuclear Energy Institute, said that some of the nation’s nearly 60 nuclear power plants are also “considering measures to is…
As reported by POWER MAGAZINE.
Continue readingNuclear worker, Sumio Konno, delivers a powerful message about the nuclear reality in Japan, nine years after the Fukushima nuclear disaster. Courtesy of the Manhattan Project for a Nuclear-Free World.
Continue readingAs reported by AP, and republished by WABE.
The article reports:
The nuclear energy industry is also asking for help, including for a nuclear project in Georgia.
The industry group, the Nuclear Energy Institute, sent a letter to Trump administratio…
Continue readingAs reported by Reuters.
Continue readingSee the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) meeting announcement, linked here, and reproduced below:
Title: [NRC] Meeting with Nuclear Industry to Discuss COVID-19 Regulatory Impacts.
Dates and Times: March 20, 2020, 02:00 PM to 03:30 PM Eastern T…