As 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 is considering invoking the Defense Production Act of 1950 to address the crisis.
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Magnox reprocessing plant will begin controlled shutdown after 8% of staff self-isolate
As reported by The Guardian.
Thank you to Scott Stapf of the Hastings Group, whose tweet points to this good news:
US: Renewables to rise above coal, nuclear says FERC — http://ow.ly/GI8a30qqCNH
As reported by Power Technology.
The article reports:
[Mycle] Schneider [editor of the annual World Nuclear Industry Status Report] said: “Covid-19 constitutes an unprecedented threat on sensitive strategic infrastructure, above all the power se…
As reported by Reuters.
Continue readingThirty-four years ago in Moscow I watched the government mishandle a disaster. Why does it feel like it was just yesterday?
An Opinion piece in the New York Times, by Serge Schmemann, a member of the Editorial Board.
[Comment by Beyond Nuclear’s radioa…
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has published the Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) for the Holtec International/Eddy-Lea Energy Alliance irradiated nuclear fuel consolidated interim storage facility (CISF) in New Mexico. …
Continue readingNine years on from Fukushima, the Japanese government is forcing people to return to their contaminated homes, despite the dangers of radioactivity.
Beyond Nuclear’s radioactive waste specialist, Kevin Kamps, appeared on the Thom Hartmann Program on th…
As reported by the Cherry Hill Courier-Post.
Cherry Hill, NJ, a suburb of Philadelphia, PA, has long been a headquarters for Holtec International’s radioactive waste-focused schemes.
The article quotes Beyond Nuclear’s radioactive waste specialist, Kev…
Beyond Nuclear’s radioactive waste specialist, Kevin Kamps, interviewed on RT’s “Watching the Hawks.”Beyond Nuclear’s radioactive waste specialist, Kevin Kamps, on RT’s “Watching the Hawks”:
Kevin Kamps, Radioactive Waste Watchdog from Beyond Nuclear, …
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 WORT, 89.9 FM Community Radio in Madison, WI. The program “8 O’clock Buzz” hosted Beyond Nuclear’s radioactive waste specialist, Kevin Kamps:
Controversy continues over centralized storage of “spent” nuclear fuel or hardened …
See the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) press release, here.
NRC has granted only 60 days for public comment, as compared to the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) 199 days for the proposed Yucca Mountain, Nevada dump — targeted at Western Sho…
Beyond Nuclear’s radioactive waste specialist appeared on RT’s “The News with Rick Sanchez.”
The Fukushima coverage begins at the 4 minute 45 second mark, and ends at the 11 minute 15 second mark.
Much of the discussion revolves around a new report b…
Beyond Nuclear’s radioactive waste specialist appeared on RT’s “The News with Rick Sanchez.”
The Fukushima coverage begins at the 4 minute 45 second mark, and ends at the 11 minute 15 second mark.
Much of the discussion revolves around a new report by …
Video: Following Gillibrand Questioning, NRC Will Redo Risk Analysis for Gas Pipeline near Indian Point
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, Nuclear Regulatory Commission Chairman Kristine Svinicki announced that the NRC would redo faulty risk analysis fo…
As reported by Kathiann M. Kowalski of Midwest Energy News.
Continue readingEven as it disappears, the “bomb spike” is revealing the ways humans have reshaped the planet.
As reported by The Atlantic.
Officials are demanding a briefing from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission about a report that found false statements and flawed science.
As reported by The Patch.
See the NRC Office of the Inspector General report, here.
Damning NRC Inspector General report details faulty analysis that led to approval of natural gas pipeline; Shumer, Gillibrand had originally called for independent review
Schumer, Gillibrand had opposed the Algonquin/AIM pipeline near Indian Point beca…
See the press release by U.S. Representative Nita Lowey (Democrat-New York’s 17th congressional district). It includes a link to the letter sent by U.S. Rep. Lowey to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s chairwoman, Christine Svinicki. It also cont…
Continue readingNew York’s Department of Public Service (Public Service Commission) issued the following statement on 2/27/20 re: NRC’s OIG report:
The NY PSC maintains its demand that the responsible federal agencies immediately conduct a rigorous and comprehensive s…
As reported by South Carolina’s Aiken Standard.
This is a remarkably fast policy reversal-reversal (sic), even for the Trump administration!
Trump tweeted that the Yucca dump was dead on Feb. 6th; by Feb. 12th, Trump’s nominee to become the #2 official…
In the decades-long “game” of radioactive waste whack-a-mole, when the Yucca dump goes down (see related entry, below), proposed consolidated interim storage facilities (CISFs) pop back up with a venge…
Continue readingUnited States Nuclear Regulatory Commission Office of the Inspector General “Event Inquiry” report (Case No. 16-024), here.
Continue readingThis includes the State of New York, the Town of Cortlandt, Village of Buchanan, and Hendrick Hudson School District, Riverkeeper, and Safe Energy Rights Group. These intervenors met the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s (NRC) Feb. 12, 2020, deadlin…
Continue readingBeyond Nuclear wishes to express our heartfelt congratulations and thanks to the Saugeen Ojibwe Nation (S.O.N.) for its courage and wisdom. See the S.O.N. vote results, as well as press release. S.O.N., …
Continue readingFrom Gordon Edwards in Ontario:
The Saugeen Ojibway Nation (SON) has voted against Ontario Power Generation’s Deep Geological Disposal (DGR) project, planned to house all of Ontario’s Low and Intermediate Level Waste (LILW) at a site within…
U.S. NRCEnergy Northwest, Washington State’s public utility, has announced that it will conduct a $2 million feasibility study for the inclusion of Small Modular Reactors (SMR) into the State’s energy mix. Aside from the now-closed military…
Continue readingAs reported by the Washington Post.
“The clock is now set at 100 seconds to midnight, the closest it has ever been to symbolic doom and the first time the hands have been within the two-minute mark,” reported NBC News.
As reported by MLive, a bipartisan, bicameral resolution opposing high-level radioactive waste dumping near the shoreline of the Great Lakes has been introduced in Congress. The initial sponsors include U.S. Senators Debbie Stabenow and Gary Peters…
Continue reading“Arizonans know that water is life; it is vital to us all and sustains our livelihoods. We cannot afford to let powerful industry interests sacrifice our water to pollution or depletion. We also cannot let those same interests destroy a landscape that …
Continue readingThe below flyer is the climate-meme a growing number of us face. The past year has set off many climate-related alarm bells due to wildfires and extreme weather. After decades of exposure to its corrosive mental effects, experts, activists, and the public are … Continue reading
Beyond Nuclear board of directors member Karl Grossman is the host of Enviro Close-Up, a television show produced by EnviroVideo for decades. The latest episode, “The Threat of Nuclear Waste,” is an interview between Karl and Beyond Nuclear’s radioacti…
Continue readingAs reported by CNN.
The Bushehr nuclear power plant, on the coast of the Persian Gulf in southwestern Iran, was under construction from 1975 to 2011. During the 1980s, the pre-operational construction site was repeatedly attacked by Saddam Hussein’s Ir…
On December 17, 2019, Maryland’s Republican Governor Larry Hogan trumpeted his plan for a “Clean And Renewable Energy Standard” (CARES) which carves out state subsidies to expand nuclear power plant construction as a “renewable …
Continue reading“The U.S. House of Representatives last week passed the $738 billion military policy bill that gives Trump his sought-for Space Force as he moves for what he terms ‘American dominance in space,'” writes Beyond Nuclear board member, Karl Grossman. The S…
Continue readingControversy continues to brew following the revelation of repeated shoreline collapses of a property contaminated with uranium and other dangerous chemicals from an abandoned Manhattan Project production line facility in Detroit, Michigan has collapsed…
Continue readingEuropean Greens have claimed a victory with the European Union agreement on green criteria for financing which will keep nuclear — and also coal — out of the mix. The new rules “will free up private investment in a green economy and make them cheaper…
Continue readingIreland, a country currently 86% reliant on fossil fuel for its electricity, has unveiled plans to move to 70% renewables by 2030. Installed wind capacity has already grown in the country by 50% since 2015. In publishing its Renewable Electricity Supp…
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A new report released on Tuesday by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) offers a bleak outlook for the future if the world continues in its failure to make drastic cuts in carbon emissions.
The UNEP Emissions Gap Report 2019, says th…
Pope Francis, speaking at Nagasaki, Japan, made a powerful speech condemning nuclear weapons, including their possession for the purpose of so-called deterrence. Here is the full text of the speech. The pope then also spoke with survivors of the 2…
Continue readingExcellent summary of the Holtec International/Eddy-Lea Energy Alliance consolidated interim storage facility fight, by Nick Maxwell, as posted at We the Fourth.
Continue readingMany hundreds of thousands of people — athletes and spectators — will flood into Japan for the 2020 Olympics. But exposure dangers from the Fukushima nuclear catastrophe have not ended since the meltdowns and explosions spread radioactive mate…
Continue readingH.R. 2699, the Nuclear Waste Policy Amendments Act of 2019, was passed by the U.S. House Energy & Commerce Committee on Wed., Nov. 20, by voice vote. That is, there is no roll call record as to how each U.S. Representative voted. Voice votes are…
Continue readingThe Runit Dome in the Marshall Islands is effectively a radioactive “tomb.” As the Los Angeles Times writes, it “holds more than 3.1 million cubic feet — or 35 Olympic-sized swimming pools — of U.S.-produced radioactive soil and debris, in…
Continue readingA new report looks at the increasing risks faced by nuclear power plants around the world as the manifestations of the climate crisis worsen. Here is the abstract:
Nuclear power—a source of low-carbon electricity—is exposed to increasing ri…
A landmark new report on radioactive waste was released on November 11 in Berlin. The World Nuclear Waste Report, with multiple authors, was commissioned primarily by the Heinrich Böll Foundation which relased it on Monday. The report is the brain…
Continue readingThe Santa Fe New Mexican has reported on NM state legislators taking a stand against the Holtec International/Eddy-Lea Energy Alliance consolidated interim storage facility (CISF) targeted at their state. The…
Continue readingExelon is not only the largest nuclear utility in the U.S., it is the biggest electric utility in the country. As reported by Midwest Energy News, multiple federal investigations, including by the Securities and Exchange Commission as well as a …
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