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More than 300 people were in the audience for Beyond Nuclear’s October 21 webinar on small modular reactors, hosted jointly with the Coalition for Responsible Energy Development in New Brunswick and the Canadian Environmental Law Association&nbsp…

Small Modular Reactors are a mirage! Learn how to debunk the many myths industry and governments are using to promote them.
Beyond Nuclear SMR Webinar

Wednesday, October 21, 2020 at 2 PM EDT – 3:30 PM EDT

Hosted by Bey…

Nuclear regulator puts public in danger by not fixing potentially fatal reactor flaw
Group files enforcement petition urging agency to address key safety problem in 19 US “Fukushima” reactors

Takoma Park, MD, October 20, 2020 – The 1…

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The nuclear weapons possessed by nine countries threaten us all. Any use of these weapons by accident, miscalculation or malicious intent, would have catastrophic human, e…

From Kings Bay Plowshares:
Fifteen supporters in a carefully Covid masked and distanced Brunswick, Georgia courtroom, witnessed Father Steve Kelly (pictured above, second from left) receive a sentence of 33 months on October 15.
Kelly and six others e…

Despite opposition from many fishermen and citizens, the Japanese government may soon decide to dump 2 million cubic meters of radiation-contaminated water stored at the Fukushima nuclear site into the sea. At least 14 million cubic meters of radioact…

An analysis of 123 countries over 25 year period of data collected from the World Bank and International Energy Agency by the University of Sussex Business School, UK and the International School of Management in Munich, Germany conclude that “di…

Since Carol Gilbert, left, and Sister Ardeth Platte, right.Beyond Nuclear has been honored and privileged, over years and decades, to continually bump into Ardeth Platte (pictured, right), a Dominican Sister, on the front lines of anti-nuclear weapo…

A Japanese court has found the government and Tepco, the operator of the wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant, negligent for failing to take measures to prevent the 2011 nuclear disaster, and ordered them to pay 1bn yen ($9.5m) in damages to thous…

The UN General Assembly will hold a High Level Meeting on Oct 2 to commemorate the International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons.
Speakers will be mostly high-level government representatives, Prime Ministers, …

Dominican Sister, Ardeth Platte, an inveterate campaigner against nuclear weapons, died peacefully in her sleep in the early hours of September 30, in her home at the Dorothy Day Catholic Worker house in Washington, DC. A native of Grand Rapids, MI, a…

The two-year relationship between President Trump and Kim Jong Un bought a freeze in testing, but all along the North Korean leader was expanding his arsenal and digging new bunkers.
As reported by the Washington Post.

From the UK Nuclear Free Local Authorities:
The Nuclear Free Local Authorities (NFLA) welcomes the 2020 edition of the World Nuclear Industry Status Report. This independent report is undertaken by a series of international experts from Canada, France…

Thank you to Garry Morgan of BREDL/BEST/MATRR <http://www.matrr.org> for circulating the following message:

Nuclear Development LLC (ND), Franklin Haney and associates, regarding Bellefonte Nuclear Facility attempts to circumvent law, asks th…

For the first time ever, renewable sources (excluding hydropower) generated more power than nuclear plants in 2019. This was a conclusion of the 2020 World Nuclear Industry Status Report, released today. The report looks at the significant and dis…

September 26 is International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons.
#wethepeoples2020 is organizing an exciting global civil society event of speakers, video messages, music, workshops and panels lasting over 10 hours.&…

WCS/ISP DEIS: Ideas for comments you can use to write your own for submission to NRC
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Action alert from the SEED …

As announced by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC):
———- Forwarded message ———From: WCS_CISFEIS Resource <WCS_CISFEIS.Resource@nrc.gov>Date: Wed, Sep 16, 2020 at 2:54 PMSubject: Interim Storage Partners: Draft Environmental …

Every day is Earth Day, or it should be. The planet, as Karl Grossman says in this talk he gave on September 21 as part of the Long Island Earth Day 2020 program, faces “two gargantuan threats — the climate crisis and nuclear weapons/nuclear power.”
H…

Just one day left to submit comments against this monstrous environmental injustice, the world’s largest high-level radioactive waste dump targeting the majority minority (BIPOC — Black, Indigenous, People of Color, especially LatinX) State of New Mex…

The UN General Assembly is holding a one-day high-level meeting today from 9am Eastern Time USA (3pm CET) to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the UN. You can watch it on UNTV. The theme of the event is  ‘The Future We Want,…

Malta has become the 45th state party to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. It deposited its instrument of ratification on 21 September 2020 as world leaders met to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the United Nations. The m…

Holtec DEIS: Ideas for comments you can use to write your own for submission to NRC
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We watch this week as Hitachi announces it is abandoning its two reactor project at Wylfa-B in Wales. And Exelon admits to “severe economic challenges” prompting the premature shutdown of its Byron and Dresden nuclear plants in Illinois. Meanwhile, as …

Press release from People Against Wylfa B (PAWB)
PAWB (People Against Wylfa B) welcomes the news that Hitachi is to abandon its plans to build a nuclear power station at Wylfa.
A nuclear power station would have endangered lives on Anglesey and beyond,…