Health Impacts
We can’t have both healthier children and nukes
According to The New York Times, a new Trump Administration Executive Order (EO) urges the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) “to reconsider its safety limits for radiation exposure, saying that current limits are too strict and go beyond what is needed to protect human health.” And yet, studies already show increases in childhood cancers, including leukemia…
Read MoreTAKE ACTION Sign petition on tritium
Sign the petition to stop The Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) from large releases of radioactive tritium gas. LANL plans to release the tritium gas any time after June 2, 2025. The only roadblock to the Lab’s plans is that it needs a “Temporary Authorization” from the New Mexico Environment Department (NMED) to do so.…
Read MoreRADIATION MEETING May 15-16
The Nuclear and Radiation Studies Board of the National Academies is hosting its 46th Meeting on May 15 & 16. Among the topics are advancements and limitations in low dose research, implications of attacks on commercial nuclear reactors, and development of a multi-laboratory, multi-entity collaborative project to detect soil and groundwater contamination at waste disposal…
Read MoreJOIN US: REPORT BACK on Nuclear weapons UN meeting
You are invited to an informal zoom REPORT BACK to the community, April 16, 4:30 PM ET on the third Meeting of States Parties (MSP3) to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) that took place in NYC at United Nations Headquarters, March 2-7. Mary Olson (Founder of Gender and Radiation Impact Project)…
Read MoreMI Nuke Resurgence: Potential Health Impacts?
[Photo above shows the Palisades atomic reactor during its previous operational phase (notice steam rising from cooling towers), Covert Township, Van Buren County, southwest Michigan, view facing east. The Palisades Park County Club, a 120-year old resort community of 200 cottages, is to the immediate right, to the south, sharing the fence line.] “A Nuclear…
Read MoreWEBINAR: What nuclear boosters won’t tell you about radiation
In Their Rush to Expand, Nuclear Interests Ignore and Suppress Evidence of Radiation’s Harms, Including Worse Impacts on Women and Children Gender + Radiation Impact Project will host a webinar on February 20 at 12 PM ET, featuring leading experts on the impacts of radiation from nuclear technologies. Cindy Folkers, author and radiation and health…
Read MoreWatch Webinar: New book sheds light on radiation science
The Scientists Who Alerted Us to the Dangers of Radiation, a new book by Ian Fairlie and Beyond Nuclear’s Cindy Folkers, had its Canadian book launch and webinar. There was a lively and informative discussion and question and answer session that covered many topics, in addition to those highlighted in the book that reveals that the…
Read MoreBeyond Nuclear annual report
The Beyond Nuclear Annual Report for 2024, a brief overview of some of the highlights of our work last year, is now available for download here. The annual report focuses on our work to stop extreme reactor license renewals; to draw attention to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s reckless decision to ignore the likely impacts of…
Read MoreWEBINAR: Exposed – New book sheds light on radiation science
The Scientists Who Alerted Us to the Dangers of Radiation, a new book by Ian Fairlie and Beyond Nuclear’s Cindy Folkers, will have its Canadian book launch and webinar, hosted by Canadian advocacy groups on Thursday, January 16 noon – 1 ET. Both authors will be present for discussion and questions. This book reveals that the…
Read MoreStudy shows radioactive wastewater would linger
Any radioactive wastewater discharged from the decommissioning Pilgrim nuclear power plant on Cape Cod Bay would linger in the bay potentially for months rather than drift out to sea, a new study from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution has revealed. “We found virtually no out-of-the-Bay transport in winter and fall and slightly larger, but still…
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