Climate Crisis
Opposition Mounting to Deep Fission
Beyond Nuclear is quoted in a July 28, 2026 Wall Street Journal article “An Underground Nuclear Reactor Is Coming to This Kansas Town—and Dividing Locals”, describing California nuclear start-up company Deep Fission’s plans for a 15 megawatt electric micro-reactor modular design to be operated at the bottom of a mile-deep borehole drilled into bedrock. Parsons, KS was…
Read More“Innovation” campuses: Nuclear waste Trojan horses?
The US Department of Energy (DOE) has announced the selection of five initial contenders for building Nuclear Lifecycle Innovation Campuses. The states that could serve as potential hosts are Utah, Tennessee, Oklahoma, Louisiana, and Idaho. But is this proposal a Trojan horse meant to force these states to store existing radioactive waste that no one…
Read MoreCourt says NRC doesn’t have to factor climate extremes into licensing
In a shocking and disappointing decision — and at a time when Texas is flooding, wildfires are making the air unbreathable and New York City is under a tornado warning — a DC court has ruled against an appeal by Beyond Nuclear and the Sierra Club. The court’s decision effectively allows the US Nuclear Regulatory…
Read MoreNuclear madness will worsen the climate crisis
From Wyoming to Wales, a nuclear madness is infecting our political leaders, who are eagerly joining in the nuclear con game Many of us have been asking ourselves the same question recently. Why does there seem to be a collective taking leave of all senses gripping politicians everywhere when it comes to nuclear power? And…
Read MoreNight 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…
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