Events
Media statement: U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s (NRC) Holtec/Palisades Zombie Atomic Reactor Restart Public Meeting in Benton Harbor, Michigan
{Yard sign design by Michigan Safe Energy Future-Kalamazoo Chapter and Shutdown Palisades Campaign; photo by Kevin Kamps} NEWS FROM BEYOND NUCLEAR For immediate release, Wednesday, April 17, 2024 Contact: Kevin Kamps, radioactive waste watchdog, Beyond Nuclear, (240) 462-3216; [email protected] Media Statement by Kevin Kamps, Radioactive Waste Specialist, Beyond Nuclear re: U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s (NRC)…
Read MoreEmergency Enforcement Petition at Palisades
[Update: Kraig Schultz of Michigan Safe Energy Future made an audio recording of the one hour thirteen minute long meeting described below. Here is his link to the audio recording: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Xn76QP7-eIpUjWv8z8xYebRmEXivb3Se/view Schultz also read a prepared statement during the meeting. Here is the text of his prepared statement: “My Name is Kraig Schultz. I am…
Read MoreNCAC to host IUFF in Vegas!
Ian Zabarte, Secretary of Native Community Action Council, has issued a press release about hosting the International Uranium Film Festival in Las Vegas, Nevada from April 30 to May 1, 2024.
Read MoreWebinar: Harms from uranium mining
WEBINAR: URANIUM MINING Harm to Indigenous communities Beyond Nuclear and the UK’s Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, will co-host a webinar on April 11, from 1:30pm-2:30pm Eastern US time on the harm to communities — most often Indigenous — from uranium mining. Carletta Tilousi, from the Havasupai Tribal Council —Guardians of the Grand Canyon will talk…
Read MoreIAEA fairy tales exposed in Brussels
More than 600 organizations from around the world signed a declaration condemning the IAEA and its Nuclear Energy Summit in Brussels, and 40 organizations were represented at a counter demonstration there to expose the fairy tales being spun inside the conference. Counterpunch also featured a Beyond Nuclear oped and Beyond Nuclear handed out a nuclear…
Read MoreFollow the money
From Libbe HaLevy, host of Nuclear Hotseat (pictured at the 2023 Nuclear-Free Future Awards by Adam Stoltman): Want to know how to stop nukes? Follow the money – and then take it away from the nuclear industry. This week we talk with Mary Beth Gallagher. She is Director of Engagements for Domini Impact Investments, a…
Read MoreSenate approves RECA extension but will the House?
The U.S. Senate last week voted in favor of expanding coverage included under the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA) in a 69-30 vote after the expanded RECA amendment was first passed under and then stripped from the National Defense Authorization Act last summer by a conference committee of senators and representatives. The RECA expansion act…
Read MoreRemembering Fukushima
This week on Nuclear Hotseat, it’s the annual Fukushima Anniversary Special: VOICES FROM JAPAN. This year, host Libbe HaLevy and her guests consider earthquake dangers to Japan’s nuclear reactors. In addition to an update on Fukushima at 13, the program focuses on the January 1, 2024 Noto Peninsula earthquake that shook the two Shika nuclear…
Read MoreIAEA fraud in Brussels
On March 21, 2024, the International Atomic Energy Agency will host a Nuclear Energy Summit for world leaders and other officials at the expo center (pictured) in Brussels, Belgium. This follows the announcement at the COP28 climate summit last December to triple global nuclear capacity by 2050. This is an absurd fantasy, too late, too expensive,…
Read MoreImpacts to Indigenous Peoples’ Human Rights from Uranium Exploitation, Feb. 28, 11am ET
Announcement from Susan Schuurman, Communications Manager, New Mexico Environmental Law Center: IACHR to Host Hearing on Impacts to Indigenous Peoples’ Human Rights from Uranium Exploitation–Feb. 28th at 11am EST/9am MST IACHR GRANTS THEMATIC HEARING ON IMPACTS TO INDIGENOUS PEOPLES’ HUMAN RIGHTS FROM URANIUM EXPLOITATION Historic Hearing to be Held in Washington, D.C. Weds, Feb. 28th…
Read More