Climate Crisis
Australian unions pan nuclear plan
Press release from the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) Dutton’s dangerous nuclear fantasy will cost workers, says ACTU The ACTU condemns Peter Dutton’s election promise of building nuclear power plants as ‘dangerous’ and ‘costly’ for Australian workers. Today, the Coalition proposed seven nuclear power sites covering five states: Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, South…
Read MoreDanger downwind
From Common Dreams: (Note: the Senate has since passed the ADVANCE Act with only Ed Markey and Bernie Sanders voting against it.) Scientists Say Senate Bill Will Endanger People ‘Living Downwind’ of Nuclear Plants “This is not about making the reactor licensing process more efficient, but about weakening safety and security oversight across the board,…
Read MoreEnviro Close-Up: The New Nuclear Push, Part 2
Enviro Close-Up is hosted by author, investigative journalist, nuclear watchdog, and founding Beyond Nuclear board of directors member, Karl Grossman. Here is the write up for “The New Nuclear Push, Part 2” (see Part 1, here): Enviro Close-Up #690, The New Nuclear Push with Kevin Kamps of Beyond Nuclear, Part 2: The program starts off…
Read More“The New Nuclear Push” — Beyond Nuclear board member Karl Grossman interviews our radioactive waste specialist, Kevin Kamps
Enviro Close-Up #689 The New Nuclear Push with Kevin Kamps of Beyond Nuclear Part 1 “We are up against the biggest push for nuclear power that I’ve ever experienced in 32 years of anti-nuclear power activism,” says Kevin Kamps of the organization Beyond Nuclear. Kamps refutes the claim of the nuclear industry that nuclear power…
Read MoreStark warnings about reviving nuclear energy
Stephanie Cooke, author of “In Mortal Hands: A Cautionary History of the Nuclear Age,” and a former editor of Nuclear Intelligence Weekly, has written an opinion piece (free with email) in the New York Times on how nuclear power will likely continue to fail us as we attempt to address our climate crisis: “World leaders…
Read MoreNuclear industry avoiding accountability for climate crisis impacts
An April 23, 2024 article published by the Yale School of the Environment probes the nuclear industry’s effort to extend the operating licenses of its aging atomic power stations while avoiding accountability to the cost and risks associated with doing business in an accelerating climate crisis. Author James Dinneen asks “Can aging US nuclear power…
Read MoreNational security risks grow with new nuclear energy
“Proliferation of nuclear weapons, nuclear terrorism, sabotage, coercion and military operations – these [national security] risks associated with nuclear energy can all be expected to grow as countries seek to implement their new nuclear energy objectives, according to a new report [“New Nuclear Energy: Assessing the National Security Risks,”] published today by George Washington University’s…
Read MoreRenewables exceed electricity demand
Mark Z. Jacobson, professor of civil and environmental engineering at Stanford University and author of No Miracles Needed: How Today’s Technology Can Save Our Climate and Clean Our Air, has written a piece in Scientific American delineating the renewable revolution happening in California. He states: “California has hit record-breaking milestones in renewable electricity generation, showing…
Read MoreThe government is spending billions to restart Michigan’s Palisades reactor. Why?
[Yard sign design by Michigan Safe Energy Future-Kalamazoo Chapter and Palisades Shutdown Campaign; photo by Kevin Kamps] An op-ed published on April 16, 2024 in the Detroit Free Press, written by Roger Rapoport. Rapoport hosted a recently published, four-part podcast interview with Beyond Nuclear’s radioactive waste specialist, Kevin Kamps, a 32-year watchdog on the Palisades…
Read MoreSystemic cover-up: New book profiles radiation risks and scientists
The Scientists Who Alerted us to Radiation’s Dangers by Ian Fairlie, PhD and Beyond Nuclear’s Cindy Folkers, MS, has just been published by The Ethics Press. The book profiles 23 radiation scientists over the previous half-century or so, who revealed that radiation risks were higher than thought, but who were victimized by governments and the…
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