RECA REMINDER: Expand the Act!

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Your urgent action is needed. Tell Congress to expand and extend the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA). Extending RECA is necessary before the program sunsets, June 7 of this year. Expanded RECA would add New Mexico downwinders and post-1971 uranium miners/workers to the fund for the first time along with other states/territories including Arizona, Colorado,…

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Nuclear war webinar: Bestselling author Annie Jacobsen

Back from the Brink is hosting a virtual conversation with Annie Jacobsen (pictured), investigative journalist and bestselling author of Nuclear War: A Scenario. The webinar is on Wednesday, May 29 at 8 PM ET/5 PM PT. Register here. Beyond Nuclear is a co-sponsor. In her latest book, Jacobsen examines the reality of what would unfold in…

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FREE Screening NOW: First We Bombed New Mexico May 17-19

First We Bombed New Mexico is the untold and tragic story of Trinity, the world’s first nuclear bomb. Register to view the film for free between May 17 and 19. Detonated in New Mexico before the bombing of Hiroshima, it is a story of government betrayal with tragic consequences. “Thousands of New Mexicans – mostly…

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UNSUNG HERO: Johnsrud Award to Wally Taylor

Beyond Nuclear will award the 2024 Dr. Judith H. Johnsrud “Unsung Hero” Award to Cedar Rapids, Iowa-based environmental attorney Wally Taylor. The award will be presented by the inaugural recipient of the Johnsrud Award in 2014, Diane D’Arrigo of NIRS. Johnsrud, D’Arrigo, and Taylor share the special connection of working very hard for many decades…

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Resisting Holtec’s nuclear relapse

[Yard sign design by Michigan Safe Energy Future-Kalamazoo Chapter and Palisades Shut Down Campaign; photo by Kevin Kamps.] Will Wade published an article in Bloomberg on May 8, 2024. It is entitled “The Company Preaching Americ’as Nuclear Revival: Holtec got its start making storage casks for radioactive waste. Now it wants to power the next…

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ANA DC Days evening events, May 20-22

The Alliance for Nuclear Accountability is excited to announce its lineup of evening events during the annual DC Days. Please read on below. (It is still not too late to register to attend DC Days as well!) —————————————————————————————- A special aspect of these evening events is the opportunity to invite friends and allies from the…

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Video/fact sheets about EJ burden of nuke waste dumps, transport

Four-minute video about the environmental justice (EJ) aspects of high-level radioactive waste, including the fact that Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC) and low-income communities are most often the ones targeted for dump-sites (such as so-called consolidated interim storage facilities), as well as such EJ communities also burdened by highly radioactive waste’s transportation along the…

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Beyond Nuclear on WORT re: zombie nuke!

NRC Meets with Holtec to Discuss Re-Start of Dead Nuclear Power Plant Kevin Kamps, Radioactive Waste Watchdog from Beyond Nuclear, talks about Monday’s pre-submittal meeting for Holtec Decommissioning International, LLC to discuss with the NRC staff its plan to submit a Quality Assurance Plan to support potential reauthorization of power operations at Palisades Nuclear Plant.…

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Stark warnings about reviving nuclear energy

Stephanie Cooke, author of “In Mortal Hands: A Cautionary History of the Nuclear Age,”  and a former editor of Nuclear Intelligence Weekly, has written an opinion piece (free with email) in the New York Times on how nuclear power will likely continue to fail us as we attempt to address our climate crisis: “World leaders…

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