Events
Radiation victims come to DC pushing for compensation
“Beginning September 22, more than 50 members of the Navajo Nation, Laguna Pueblo, Acoma Pueblo and Hopi tribe will drive roughly 30 hours by bus from New Mexico to Washington, D.C., to demand House Speaker Mike Johnson allow a vote on legislation reauthorizing the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA). The bill would aid victims of U.S. nuclear tests, uranium mining…
Read MoreVisual archives of Hiroshima atomic bombing
From Anton Wagner, Hiroshima Day Coalition, Canada: The Chugoku Shimbun Hiroshima Peace Media Center has just posted the website Visual archives of Hiroshima atomic bombing—Photographs and films in 1945 . The website consists of 1,532 photographs and two films recorded in Hiroshima between August 6 and the end of December 1945 by citizens directly affected…
Read MoreHoltec’s lethal plans — video
Massachusetts Peace Action hosted a webinar recently on nuclear waste, focused on Holtec’s activities in Massachusetts and New Mexico. Diane Turco of Cape Downwinders and Melissa Harding-Ferretti of the Herring Pond Wampanoag Tribe addressed Holtec’s decision to vent evaporated tritium from the closed Pilgrim, MA nuclear power plant, where the company has the decommissioning contract.…
Read MoreRemembering Hiroshima — video
On August 5, 2024, the Hiroshima / Nagasaki Peace Committee of the National Capital Region and the WILPF US DMV branch commemorated the 79th anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing with Hiroshima survivor Hideko Tamura, and speakers John Steinbach, Melvin Hardy, Gwen DuBois, Linda Pentz Gunter, Fan Yang, Dennis Nelson, and James Wagner. You can watch…
Read MorePalisades zombie reactor action alert!
Dear Friends and Colleagues, For the second time in just three short weeks, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is holding a major public meeting in Benton Harbor, Michigan, regarding Holtec’s zombie reactor restart scheme at Palisades nuclear power plant. Palisades is located on the Lake Michigan shore in Covert Township, in Van Buren County,…
Read MoreOne of the worst of days
July 16, 1945 marks the day when the first atomic bomb was detonated — at the Trinity test site in New Mexico. July 16, 1979 is the forgotten day of the devastating Church Rock uranium mill dam breach that sent 90 million gallons of liquid radioactive waste into New Mexico’s Puerco River. On this week’s…
Read MorePALISADES ZOMBIE REACTOR: Action Alert on Environmental Scoping
[Yard sign design by Michigan Safe Energy Future-Kalamazoo Chapter, and Shut Down Palisades Campaign; photo by Kevin Kamps] ============================================================================================ July 17, 2024 Update: ZOMBIE NUKE?! Enviros Resist Feds & Holtec at Palisades At the July 11 Nuclear Regulatory Commission/Department of Energy hybrid public comment meeting on environmental scoping for the Palisades zombie reactor restart scheme,…
Read MoreKarl Grossman receives Antioch College’s Horace Mann Award
Karl Grossman, a founding member of the board of directors of Beyond Nuclear, has received the Horace Mann Award from the Antioch College Alumni Association on Friday, June 28, 2024. Karl gave a talk about the nuclear menace in a presentation at the event. Karl received the award at a ceremony at Antioch‘s Yellow Springs, Ohio…
Read MoreConfronting rising nuclear tensions
If you missed the panel presentation and discussion hosted by Veterans for Peace — Nuclear Power and Weapons in a Time of Rising Tensions — you can watch it here. The speakers featured Linda Pentz Gunter of Beyond Nuclear, William Hartung of the Quincy Institute, and Greg Mello of the Los Alamos Study Group.
Read MoreThe voice for her community
This week is the 13th anniversary edition of Nuclear Hotseat. Host, Libbe HaLevy invited 2023 Nuclear-Free Future Award winner, Hinamoeura Cross (pictured by Adam Stoltman) to describe her efforts to seek justice for her people in French Polynesia who were subjected to 193 atomic tests inflicted on them by the colonialist French government. CLICK HERE…
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