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TAKE 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 MoreANA DC DAYS: June 8-11, then Spring Meeting
Alliance for Nuclear Accountability has held DC Days annually for nearly four decades. All-day training will be Sunday, June 8. Meetings with congressional and executive branch offices will be from Monday to Wednesday, June 9 to 11. Monday evening will feature a screening of the film “To Use a Mountain,” about sites targeted in the…
Read MoreHoltec’s Palisades SMR-300s: Reference reactors for global buildout
[Yard sign design by Michigan Safe Energy Future-Kalamazoo Chapter, and Shut Down Palisades Campaign; photo by Kevin Kamps.] HOLTEC “SMR”-300s Targeting Utah as Mountain West base As reported by Power Engineering, Holtec has announced development of a manufacturing and training headquarters in Utah, for deployment of more than a dozen “Small Modular Reactors” (SMRs),…
Read MoreA tar pit awaits Santee Cooper’s RFP applicants
The South Carolina Public Service Authority, also known as Santee Cooper electric, has announced that it has closed its January 22, 2025 “Request For Proposals” (RFP) to gauge the potential interest of any new buyers to resume the financing and construction of the abandoned V.C. Summer Units 2 and 3 nuclear power project with nearly…
Read MoreThe India-Pakistan conflict and nuclear risks
What follows is a statement on the situation from ICAN, of which Beyond Nuclear in a member: “ICAN is gravely concerned at the escalating hostilities between India and Pakistan, particularly since last night’s missile strikes by India on Pakistan-administered Kashmir and Pakistan, and Pakistan’s previous threats to use nuclear weapons. Nuclear weapons are not a…
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 MoreNUKE WASTE DUMP: Ojibwe Country once again targeted
JUST SAY NO TO NUCLEAR WASTE DUMPING IN NORTHWESTERN ONTARIO! Beyond Nuclear’s radioactive waste specialist, Kevin Kamps, presented “Water Is Life, Nuclear Waste Is Toxic” at the annual meeting of Environment North, in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada, on the north shore of Lake Superior, April 23, 2025. Environment North is the lead local grassroots organization…
Read MoreUpdates on Palisades: Zombie reactor & “SMR” new builds
[Yard sign design by Michigan Safe Energy Future-Kalamazoo Chapter and Shut Down Palisades Campaign; photo by Kevin Kamps.] Holtec and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s (NRC) zealous and reckless push for restart of the 60-year old zombie reactor, as well as “Small Modular Reactor” new builds, at the Palisades nuclear power plant in Covert, Michigan, has…
Read MoreTHE IRAN DEAL: Smash it then claim it
There is deep irony in the Trump administration working to secure credit for a nuclear deal with Iran, given it was the previous Trump administration that destroyed a perfectly adequate one — the JCPOA — that had ensured Iran’s uranium enrichment stayed within commercial grade while lifting sanctions. Now, as Iran appears to be enriching…
Read MoreZOMBIE NUKE?! Band-Aids on Critical Safety System?!
[Photo showing the exceedingly thin-walled tubes within a typical pressurized water reactor steam generator] ZOMBIE NUKE?! Band-Aids on Critical Safety System?! The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has published a Federal Register Notice about Holtec’s License Amendment Request to merely “sleeve” severely degraded steam generator (SG) tubes at the Palisades zombie atomic reactor. Cascading failure of enough…
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