NRDC funding squeeze eliminates its mission as a public watchdog on nuclear pollution

The New York Times reports that major non-profit funders are cutting their financial support to once effective environmental organizations that have led the fight against toxic chemicals, nuclear contamination,  the destruction of wildlife and desecration of their habitat in lieu of redirecting those resources to combating out-of-control climate crisis.  This includes financially undermining those organizations’…

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Expediting SMR Construction?!

[Here is an audio recording of the meeting described below, provided by Kraig Schultz of Michigan Safe Energy Future-Shoreline Chapter in Grand Haven, MI. Public statements begin at the 55 minute mark of the recording. They came from: Schultz, MSEF; Kevin Kamps, Beyond Nuclear; Mary Lampert, Pilgrim Watch, Massachusetts; Jan Boudart, Nuclear Energy Information Service…

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NUKESPEAK: “Clean” hydrogen from nuclear?!

[Image: Front cover of the 1983 book NUKESPEAK, republished with a new introduction post-Fukushima.] Orwell is spinning so fast in his grave, he could be hooked up to a turbo-generator and qualify for clean energy production tax credits (a paraphrase of a 2006 joke by then-Congressman, now U.S. Senator, Ed Markey (Democrat-Massachusetts), about DOE nuclear…

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SOS: Nuclear power’s chilling legacy

The San Onofre Syndrome (SOS), more than a decade in the making, had its world premiere on October 8 and won the Awareness Film Festival’s Documentary Feature Grand Jury Award (out of 100 documentary entries.) This is a great honor and bodes well for the future reach of the film. Many more screenings are being…

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Nuclear power relapse in Sweden?

Beyond Nuclear’s radioactive waste specialist, Kevin Kamps, was quoted in an October 11 E&E News article, ‘Open for business’: Sweden turns to U.S. for nuclear reactors; Sweden’s deputy prime minister recently visited Washington to “go nuclear power plant shopping” and pitch regulatory collaboration to U.S. officials. “Has she forgotten about Chornobyl? (pictured) It took living…

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Russia and US to spar over nuclear test ban treaty?

With The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists’ Doomsday Clock now set at “90 seconds to Midnight” and global tensions skyrocketing with potentially widening wars now between Russia/Ukraine and Israel/Gaza, it is a particularly precarious time to add the resumption of active nuclear weapons testing. However, Russia’s envoy to the to the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Organization…

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Anti-nuclear contingents march for climate

A “Nuclear-Free, Carbon-Free” bloc marched in a major climate protest on the eve of the United Nations General Assembly, last Sunday in New York City. Taking their name from the title of Dr. Arjun Makhijani of IEER’s 2007 book, Carbon-Free and Nuclear-Free: A Roadmap for U.S. Energy Policy, this is at least their third climate…

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Coal co. laughs off nukes: chooses renewables instead

The head of Australia’s biggest coal power company, AGL Energy, laughed off suggestions that AGL should convert its closing coal plants to nuclear power plants. Instead, AGL will be building solar and wind power. Specifically, the company was asked to delay closure of its last coal plants, (including Liddell, pictured by Webaware/Wikimedia Commons), to accommodate…

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