Please email your Senators or call the U.S. Capitol Switchboard (202) 224-3121 and ask for your Senators’ offices.
Urge them to redirect funds from futile new reactor research to clean, reliable and safer renewable energy.
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Continue readingSee Beyond Nuclear radioactive waste specialist Kevin Kamps’ power point presentation (as well as links to three short videos — posted under UPDATE — and an article, authored by Beyond Nuclear board president, Kay Drey, entitled “Mobile Meltdown: Thr…
Continue readingAll of us at Beyond Nuclear were shocked and saddened to learn of the death on March 30th of Kitty Tucker.
Kitty was well known to those of us in the anti-nuclear movement through her tireless work as a lawyer on behalf of nuclear whistleblower Karen S…
For more information about POWER STRUGGLE, to host a screening in your local community or to order a DVD, Blu-ray or digital download or streaming, visit: www.PowerStruggleMovie.com.
And see this Free Speech TV link for additional info.:
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Beyond Nuclear today issued a press release revealing how true health research into the impacts of the March 28, 1979 Three Mile Island nuclear disaster were suppressed and compromised by a court order.
TAKOMA PARK, MD — Residents around th…
As March 28, 2019 marks the 40th annual commemoration of the Three Mile Island Unit 2 meltdown near Harrisburg, PA, it is especially important to learn the lessons, and hear the cautionary tales, from survivors of that disaster — including what the…
Continue readingResidents living near one of Scotland’s two remaining operating nuclear power stations have been alarmed by proposals to re-start two reactors closed since March and October last year, both of which are showing a growing number of cracks in their…
Continue readingAfter two fatal crashes and considerable stalling, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) did, under pressure, finally ground the Boeing 737 Max aircraft. But when the American (General Electric) nuclear power reactors blew up and melted down at Fuk…
Continue readingAs reported on the Thom Hartmann Program: The Fukushima Daiichi Disaster, although out of the news is still irradiating Japan, the Pacific Ocean and the world. Thom interviews Beyond Nuclear’s radioactive waste specialist, Kevin Kamps.
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A coalition of groups, including Japanese residents of London, UK, will be holding a series of events, as they do every year (and every Friday) to mark the anniversary of the March 11, 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. A march, rally, a vigil an…
Continue readingTeenager, Yumi, evacuated Fukushima City as a child. Now, after accompanying her mother to anti-nuclear protests, she has taken up the cause. In a letter to the world, she asks for an end to nuclear energy. She experienced “so much pain and sorrow” as …
Continue readingDate City produces peaches and dried persimmonsEight years after the Fukushima nuclear reactors exploded on Japan’s Northern coast, spewing radioactive particles into the air, across the land, and into the Pacific Ocean, the country continues to s…
Continue readingBeyond Nuclear Press Release
Thursday, March 7, 2019
Beyond Nuclear spokespeople: Paul Gunter, reactor operation risks and regulatory capture: 301-523-0201; Cindy Folkers, radiation exposures and human health: 240-354-4314; Kevin Kamps, …
An opinion column in the New York Times by Pulitzer Prize winner Nicholas Kristof is but the latest in a growing collection of news stories questioning the Trump administration’s eagerness to transfer weapons-usable nuclear power technology to the re…
Continue readingOn Feb. 22 & 23, 2019, Beyond Nuclear’s radioactive waste watchdog, Kevin Kamps, testified before the Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) Diablo Canyon Nuclear Decommissioning Engagement Panel (DCNDEP) in San Luis Obispo (SLO), California. The …
Continue readingThe National Academy of Sciences Nuclear Radiation and Studies Board is hosting a workshop to discuss establishing a registry for long-term health monitoring following radiological emergencies in the U.S. The public can register to attend either in …
Continue readingAs reported by the Washington Post.
Here is a link to the U.S. House Oversight and Reform Committee report itself.
See more info., and Beyond Nuclear commentary, at our Nuclear Weapons website section.
Graphic: US NRC High Energy Arc FaultTwo relatively recent accidents at operating US atomic power plants have once again spotlighted how a lack of understanding of fire hazards contribute to risk uncertainty and potentially the next nuclear meltdown. …
Continue readingIn an op-ed published by the Washington Post, Cindy McCain (widow of Republican U.S. Senator John McCain from Arizona), and Mark Udall (former Democratic U.S. Senator frm Colorado), have called for protection of the Grand Canyon from uranium mining.
Continue readingAs reported by the Washington Post, the solar-powered Mars rover “Opportunity” lasted not for the 90-day design life, but for 5,111 days.
Continue readingAs reported by Deadline.
HBO features not only nuclear-themed historical dramas, but also documentaries, such as “Atomic Homefront” about radioactive waste crises in St. Louis, MO, and “Indian Point: Imaging the Unimaginable,” about reactor security ri…
As reported by Naomi Klein at The Intercept.
Klein provides compelling comparisons and contrasts between the New Deal of Fraklin Delano Roosevelt, and the Green New Deal of Democrats U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of NY, and U.S. Senator …
Alfred C. Meyer of Physicians for Social Responsibility [and his 15-year old, 7-pound Maltese atomic watchdog, Clara] and Kevin Kamps, Radioactive Waste Specialist of Beyond Nuclear, talk with host Margaret Harrington about the need to abolish nuclea…
Continue readingGOD’S RIVER is a short documentary film created by Mark Isaac and Gabriela Bulisova as part of their work in Ukraine supported by a Fulbright grant. Energy producers and environmentalists agree that climate change has significantly reduced …
Continue readingWhen Beyond Nuclear submitted comments on EPA’s proposed transparency rule (the agency’s bid to make regulations of pollutants less protective) we were told the EPA’s attack on science-based protections wouldn’t includ…
Continue readingCredit: U.S. Nuclear Regulatory CommissionOn February 4, 2019, the Ann Arbor City Council in Southeast Michigan unanimously passed a municipal resolution calling on the State and the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to upgrade radiological disa…
Continue readingThis week, two stories on Beyond Nuclear International juxtapose the transformative beauty of Earth from space and our home in the universe, with President Trump’s latest move toward war in space. Bella Gaia, Kenji Williams’ breathtaking creation, is a…
Continue readingA comprehensive report — in English — has been published by Greenpeace France, taking an in-depth look at the growing, unending and unsolved problem of radioactive waste. A team of experts reviewed the radioactive waste situation in Belgium, France, …
Continue readingIn a move that will still make nuclear war in Europe more likely, the US is today expected to suspend its compliance with the INF Treaty (Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces Treaty, signed by the US and then USSR in 1987) — rather than withdraw from it…
Continue readingSee links to extensive news coverage, as well as to the State of Nevada’s lawsuit filings opposed to the weapons-grade plutonium shipments.
Continue readingOn January 24, 2019, a majority of five voting members of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) rolled back more than seven years of the agency’s technical study on the hazards and lessons learned for US reactors from Japan’s F…
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Senator Ed Markey (D-Mass.) — above right — and Representative Ted Lieu (D-Calif.) today reintroduced their bill that would stop the President of the United States from authorizing a nuclear first strike without congression…
See the press release re: an environmental coalition’s (including Beyond Nuclear) effort to halt Holtec International and Eddy-Lea Energy Alliance from “temporarily storing” 173,600 metric tons of highly radioactive waste in New Mexico, 2.5 times the a…
Continue readingSee the press release. See the media coverage. See a summary of the legal opposition to Holtec International’s and Eddy-Lea Energy Alliance’s proposed centralized interim storage facility for 173,600 metric tons of highly radioactive irradiated nuclear…
Continue readingAs reported by the New York Times. Note that the Nevada National Security Site (formerly known as the Nevada Test Site) is located near the proposed Yucca Mountain high-level radioactive waste dump in Nevada.
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Both Americans and Canadians live inside the emergency planning zone of Michigan’s Fermi-2 nuclear power plant, the biggest Fukushima design reactor in the world. Yet, while Canadians are provided potassium-iodide (KI) in the event of a severe accident…
Continue readingBy Karl Grossman:
Beginning to fill in his declaration of last year about turning space into a war zone and establishing a U.S. Space Force, President Trump was at the Pentagon last week promoting a plan titled “Missile Defense Review.”
As&…
The Hitachi board has pulled the plug on a proposed two-reactor nuclear project in Wales after mounting costs proved the ultimate deterrent to the unwelcome nuclear plan. Technically, the Wylfa B nuclear power plant on the island of Anglesey is “frozen…
Continue readingFrom NPR’s 1a: “Greg Jaczko was the lead regulator of nuclear power in the United States from 2009-2012. In that role, he advocated for tough nuclear power safety regulations.
But in his new book, Confessions of a Rogue Nuclear Regulator, he writes he …
A decade after starting his one-man mission to get solar lighting to Ethiopian villages, Samson Tsegaye Lemma and his team have constructed solar projects in four villages, distributed over 35,000 solar systems throughout the country, and trained …
Continue readingLegal counsel for Beyond Nuclear (Diane Curran, of Harmon, Curran, Spielberg, & Eisenberg, L.L.P. of Washington, D.C.; and Mindy Goldstein and Caroline Reiser of the Turner Environmental Law Clinic at Emory University School of Law in Atlanta, G…
Continue readingOpposition to consolidated interim storage facilities (CISF) for irradiated nuclear fuel, targeted at the Southwest, persists. On Dec. 17, a coalition of environmental groups defended their legal standing, and dozens of legal and technical contenti…
Continue readingYucca Mountain, NevadaCongressional Republicans, such as U.S. Rep. Fred Upton from southwestern Michigan, have been trying hard to attach a rider to year-end budget legislation to keep the federal government operational, that would fund Yucca Mou…
Continue readingIn response to a request by 76 environmental groups, including Beyond Nuclear, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has granted until January 9, 2019 for the public to comment on the agency’s proposal to deregulate high-level radioactive wastes, and all…
Continue readingUn Special Rapporteur, Baskut Tuncak, who has already criticized Japan’s treatment of Fukushima “cleanup” workers, has urged Japan not to force Fukushima evacuees back to the accident zone, especially women and chidren. In delivering his report to the …
Continue reading“How many times have you heard people say ‘I would much rather not have nuclear power but we need it to combat climate change’?” asks British activist, Linda Walker.
She writes: “This claim has been made so many times by the nuclear industr…
Beyond Nuclear is requesting that the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) convene a public hearing and legal intervention into Exelon Generation’s application to extend the operations of its two-unit Peach Bottom nuclear power station in Del…
Continue readingThe Woolsey fire in California was 100% contained as of November 21 after burning for nearly two weeks.
In the wake of the Woolsey fire, people in areas surrounding the contaminated Santa Susanna Field Laboratory site (SSFL) — just north of Los Angele…
