Events
Golden Rule-related events in s.w. MI, Sept. 7-13
Please see the event updates below (time-stamped 9pm ET, Friday, Sept. 8, 2023). Please note that all open boat tours in St. Joe, MI have been cancelled. However, all remaining events, to be held in Kalamazoo, will go ahead as previously planned, from Sat., Sept. 9 till Tues., Sept. 12. Hope you can come to…
Read MoreSenate extends nuclear industry’s limited liability to catastrophic accidents
Why is Congress avoiding a hearing on the reauthorization of the Price-Anderson Act? Buried within the 1,168 pages of the National Defense Authorization Act for 2024 as a “must pass” and without holding a single public hearing, on July 27, 2023, the US Senate voted to reauthorize the Price-Anderson Nuclear Industries Indemnity Act. Price-Anderson shields…
Read MorePROTEST Japan’s radioactive Pacific dumping!
Japan has started releasing radioactive waste water from the devastating multiple meltdowns at the Fukushima nuclear power reactors into the Pacific Ocean. The release is opposed by fisherfolk, scientists, neighboring countries, civil society groups and individuals. Protests and actions are happening now (scroll down at link). We will continue to post any updates. Sign this…
Read MoreKeep Takoma Park nuclear-free!
In an ominous turn of events, the Takoma Park City Council has voted to abolish a citizen watchdog committee with oversight of the city’s historic Nuclear-Free Zone Act. Beyond Nuclear is headquartered in Takoma Park, MD, renowned nationally and the world over for its nuclear-free status. The Takoma Park Nuclear-Free Zone Act ensures that the…
Read MoreWeaponizing uranium: Join the webinar
Inspired by International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War’s (IPPNW) Mombasa World Congress, please join the US affiliate, Physicians for Social Responsibility, on Wednesday, August 23rd to discuss the legacy of uranium and the ways it has been weaponized to cause disproportionate and irreparable harm to Black, brown and Indigenous communities around the world.…
Read MoreThe global Hibakusha
On this week’s Nuclear Hotseat, Part 2 of the interview with Prof. Robert “Bo” Jacobs. He is an American historian of nuclear technologies and radiation techno-politics. Bo moved to Japan in 2006 after being hired by the Hiroshima Peace Institute and is currently a professor at the Hiroshima Peace Institute and the Graduate School of…
Read MoreRemembering Hiroshima/Nagasaki
“Hibakusha” is the term for those who survived the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. But in recent years, it has come to be applied more widely to all who have been exposed to radiation from nuclear bombs and other sources of contamination from manufacturing, uranium mining, nuclear reactors, and radioactive waste. And, as this week’s…
Read MoreSIGN UP: Autumn classes on radiation basics!
Cindy Folkers (Beyond Nuclear) and Mary Olson (Gender and Radiation Impact Project) are again offering their course on radiation basics with guest presenter, Ian Fairlie. RADIATION BASICS (5 classes) THURSDAYS from SEPTEMBER 7- OCTOBER 5 Noon ET / 11 am CT / 10 am MT / 9 am PT Topics Covered: What is radiation? Cancer…
Read MoreChurch Rock remembered
On this week’s Nuclear Hotseat, Libbe HaLevy replays interviews with individuals affected by the July 16, 1979 Church Rock uranium mill disaster. On that day, the Navajo Nation suffered the worst radioactive materials spill in US history — 90-million gallons of uranium mining waste and eleven hundred tons of solid mill waste that burst through…
Read MoreWhy the nuclear ban treaty matters
July 16 marks the commemoration of the first atomic bomb detonation — the 1945 Trinity test in Nevada. The eagerly anticipated feature film, Oppenheimer, about Robert Oppenheimer, the later regretful “father of the atom bomb”, will open in cinemas on July 21. And it is now six years since the historic Treaty on the Prohibition…
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