Climate Crisis
Night With The Experts
Beyond Nuclear featured guest on NEIS monthly meeting, Night With The Experts Beyond Nuclear’s Linda Pentz Gunter presented ideas stemming from her new book No To Nuclear. Why Nuclear Power Destroys Lives, Derails Climate Progress And Provokes War — on the May edition of Night With The Experts. The monthly online meeting, hosted by Nuclear…
Read MoreNukes and cancer: proximity associated with deaths
In the latest study from Harvard T. Chan School of Public Health, proximity to nuclear power reactors was associated with elevated mortality from breast, colon, and lung cancers. Examining data from 2000 to 2020, almost 40,000 female deaths and 40,000 male deaths were estimated to be attributable to this proximity. Lung cancer accounted for most…
Read MoreCorporate greenwashing is rampant
This week on Beyond Nuclear International, we republish a searing article by UK climate campaigner and longtime thought leader in this space, Jonathon Porritt. If we are to truly get ‘beyond nuclear’, dispensing once and for all with nuclear power and fossil fuels, we must avoid a corporate green new deal. What’s in the way…
Read MoreThe nuclear Labubu? Every governor’s got to have one
Why are US governors across the country chasing after new reactors as if they are the latest fad toy, a kind of nuclear Labubu? They are falling all over each other to get them like obsessive parents outside a toy store at dawn. New reactors will be over-priced, a longtime coming, and fizzle out quickly.…
Read MoreTen reasons to reject nuclear power
In Beyond Nuclear executive director Linda Pentz Gunter’s new book — No To Nuclear. Why Nuclear Power Destroys Lives, Derails Climate Progress And Provokes War — she delivers a compelling indictment of every aspect of the nuclear power industry and its connections to nuclear weapons. In the book’s appendix, you will find a more succinct list…
Read MoreBye bye nukes, hello solar
Between 2015 and 2025 global solar energy generation grew tenfold, a new study reveals. Fossil fuels fell by 2% while nuclear, which saw a tiny increase (due to China), is also set to be overtaken by renewables this year. Aditya Lolla, managing director of Ember, which produced the report, told The Guardian, “Clean energy is…
Read MoreNorway says “nuclear renaissance” too expensive
Report illuminates new reactors can’t compete with the accelerating growth of renewable energy The “Survey and assessment of the status of available nuclear reactor technologies and designs” published on March 16, 2026 as the final report on Norway’s energy policy was made public on April 8, 2026. It was prepared by the international team of…
Read MoreFAQs from Don’t Nuke the Climate
Don’t Nuke the Climate, a network of worldwide anti-nuclear and environmental groups of which Beyond Nuclear is a member, has produced a new set of Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs). Each segment boils down the key message points as to why nuclear power is too expensive, too slow, too dangerous and too dirty and looks at…
Read MoreWorld Added More Than 200-GW of Utility-Scale Solar PV in 2025
Thanks to the Sun Day Campaign for keeping us up to date on the continued soaring progress of renewable energy worldwide, compared to the stagnation and decline of nuclear power. (Contact Ken Bossong to receive updates: [email protected]) “Global large-scale solar capacity surpassed 1-TWac in 2025 as the world added more than 200-GW of new utility-scale…
Read MoreGOING GREEN? Iran war boosts renewables (not nuclear)
Did the fossil fool in the White House accidentally kickstart a global green energy revolution? As Trump continues to shut down oil and gas access from the Middle East with his ongoing threats against Iran, countries are turning to renewables to fill the energy gap. That’s because, unlike small modular reactors, renewables are here now…
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