Climate Crisis
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…
Read MoreNuclear 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…
Read MoreRussia 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…
Read MoreAnti-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…
Read MoreCoal 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…
Read MorePartial uranium mine ban in Grand Canyon area
President Biden will today create a national monument of nearly 1 million acres around the Grand Canyon. This designation will protect lands important to nearby Native Americans from new uranium mining — a major reason they want the designation. New mining claims will not be allowed, but “valid existing rights” will be maintained, which could…
Read MoreNuclear fantasies block climate action
A network of groups across Canada has announced the launch of the SMR Education Task Force to share under-reported facts about small modular nuclear reactors (SMRs) with members of Parliament and provincial legislatures. We begin with the latest report from Canada Energy Regulator (CER). This federal document, called Canada’s Energy Future, projects that enough new nuclear reactors (SMRs) will…
Read MoreFusion project a hot mess
Billed as a panacea energy source for the world, the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER), a fusion technology first conceived of in the 1980s and formally begun in 2006, is billions of dollars over budget and years behind in construction. How much more it will cost and how long it will take no one is…
Read MoreFight back on nuke propaganda — here’s how
We are facing a saturation propaganda campaign from the pro-nuclear lobby claiming that nuclear power is a climate solution. It’s time for all of us to respond. To make it easier, Beyond Nuclear has provided a series of Talking Points addressing this topic. In addition to demonstrating how continuing with nuclear power impedes climate chaos…
Read More“New” Vogtle reactors already obsolete
From Energy Live News: “In the first months of 2023, the US newly added utility-scale solar and wind energy installations surpassed the capacity of the newly operational Vogtle-3 nuclear reactor, which took nearly 14 years to construct. “That’s according to recent analysis conducted by the SUN DAY Campaign, based on data released by the Federal Energy…
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