NRC Cites Holtec for Improper Use of Decommissioning Trust Funds

Holtec Decommissioning International has misspent money from the decommissioning trust funds at all four nuclear plants it owns, using it to pay for activities like parades and softball games when federal regulations restrict the use to decommissioning of the reactors and cleaning up the contaminated sites. As reported by Christine Legere in the Provincetown Independent…

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Fukushima disaster not over

A statement from Citizens’ Nuclear Information Center, Tokyo: On March 11, 2011, the Great East Japan Earthquake, a magnitude 9.0 earthquake, occurred off the Pacific coast of the Tohoku region. This massive earthquake and ensuing tsunami set off a severe accident at the Tokyo Electric Power Company’s Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station, which was rocked…

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Follow 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…

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Senate 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…

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Oral Arguments, Beyond Nuclear v. NRC: Report Back

[Tee shirt design by Noel Marquez, co-founder, Alliance for Environmental Strategies, southeastern New Mexico. The design features New Mexico’s state colors of gold and turqoise, the Zia Pueblo Sun symbol, and the shape of the state.] On March 5th, opponents appealing the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s (NRC) approval of Holtec International’s license application for highly…

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IAEA 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,…

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Remembering the horror of Castle Bravo

Filmmaker Andrew Nisker Remembers the Nuclear Victims and Survivors of Bikini Atoll on this Marshall Islands Remembrance Day  Seventy years ago, on March 1, the U.S government exploded the first of a series of  thermonuclear weapons over Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands. The hydrogen bomb, codenamed Bravo, had an explosive yield that was a…

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UPDATE: RECA expansion on Senate floor next week

  From the Congressional Record Daily Digest of February 29: “Radiation Exposure Compensation Reauthorization Act (RECA)–Agreement: A unanimous-consent-time agreement was reached providing that at a time to be determined by the Majority Leader, in consultation with the Republican Leader, but no later than Friday, March 8, 2024, Senate begin consideration of S. 3853, to extend…

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Price-Anderson Act renewal hidden from public

ADVANCE Nuclear Act of 2023 (HR6544) with Price-Anderson renewal for 40 years passes US House floor vote  Bipartisan support to extend  severe accident liability protection to “inherently safe” new reactors? The “Price-Anderson Nuclear Industries Indemnity Act”, also known as the “Price-Anderson Act” (PAA), is moving for renewal by Congress. The federal law to shield the…

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