Health Impacts
First we bombed New Mexico: A new film
From the promo: First We Bombed New Mexico is the untold story of Trinity, the world’s first nuclear bomb detonated in New Mexico one month before the bombing of Hiroshima. It is a story of government betrayal with tragic consequences. Thousands of New Mexicans – mostly Hispanic and Native American – were exposed to catastrophic…
Read MoreYou can help radiation survivors!
Hope exists for those exposed to fallout and other radiation survivors who were ignored. For nearly two decades, Tularosa Basin Downwinders Consortium (TBDC) has pushed to amend The Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA) to include Trinity downwinders. The U.S. Senate as part of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) has not only added Trinity downwinders,…
Read MoreThe Ocean is NOT a Radioactive Waste Dump!
On August 26, Beyond Nuclear’s radioactive waste specialist, Kevin Kamps, gave a presentation to the organization No Nukes Kobe, in Japan, via Zoom. His presentation was in English; Rachel Clark translated into Japanese in real time. The presentation was about the hazards of tritium, in light of the ocean dumping of highly radioactive wastewater at…
Read MoreRadiation persists in wild boars
Some radionuclides persist in the environment once released, contaminating the food chain, creating widespread long-term risk of radiation exposure. Radiocesium, which has been released from civilian reactor meltdowns like Chornobyl and Fukushima, but also from worldwide atomic testing, is one such radionuclide. New research demonstrates that wild boars in Bavaria are not only contaminated by…
Read MoreDU in Ukraine
The United States plans to supply Ukraine with depleted uranium (DU) munitions as part of a US aid package. DU is also used in tank armor. The U.S. contends that there is no health threat even though DU is both a toxic heavy metal and radioactive, could pose a threat to troops from both Ukraine…
Read MoreTritium releases opposed as environmental and health concerns grow
Reactor community residents, state and federal political officials, public health experts, fishing industry advocates and environmentalists in the United States and countries around the world are calling for stricter protective action to prevent the international nuclear industry’s global discharge of its largest, and costliest, volume of liquid radioactive waste from nuclear power sites; tritium, radioactive…
Read MoreMarine expert disses dumping
According to marine expert Ken Buesseler, senior scientist at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Japan and TEPCO have “been only partially successful and only partially transparent” as they begin dumping some 350 million gallons of radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean. The water was contaminated by direct contact with the melted radioactive cores of the ruined…
Read MoreThe sordid history of Trinity’s uranium fuel
In addition to the impact the first atomic explosion, Trinity, had on communities near where the bomb was detonated, it also had impact on the uranium mining communities where its fuel came from, including the Congo in Africa. Two-thirds of the uranium for Trinity came from a 24-story deep mine in Katanga, called Shinkolobwe. The…
Read MoreUranium Film Festival returns to the US in 2024
The International Uranium Film Festival (IUFF) plans to return to the United States in early spring of 2024 for an extended tour across the country. At each stop, it will show a selection of movies and documentaries curated for that area of the country about the use of nuclear power and nuclear weapons in the…
Read MoreNuclear Fallout: The vets who went back
The people of the Marshall Islands suffered significant harm from explosions and fallout from the 67 atomic tests carried out there by the US during the Cold War. So did the US military personnel who witnessed the tests. But what of US soldiers who were sent back to “clean up” the radioactive contamination left behind?…
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