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Impacts to Indigenous Peoples’ Human Rights from Uranium Exploitation, Feb. 28, 11am ET
Announcement from Susan Schuurman, Communications Manager, New Mexico Environmental Law Center: IACHR to Host Hearing on Impacts to Indigenous Peoples’ Human Rights from Uranium Exploitation–Feb. 28th at 11am EST/9am MST IACHR GRANTS THEMATIC HEARING ON IMPACTS TO INDIGENOUS PEOPLES’ HUMAN RIGHTS FROM URANIUM EXPLOITATION Historic Hearing to be Held in Washington, D.C. Weds, Feb. 28th…
Read MoreNewest Nuke Nightmares at Palisades, 2022-Present
[Image: Yard sign design by Michigan Safe Energy Future-Kalamazoo Chapter and Shut Down Palisades Campaign; photo by Kevin Kamps] Below is a reverse (present day to past) chronological listing of Beyond Nuclear web posts about the Palisades zombie reactor restart scheme (and so-called “Small Modular Reactor” new builds scheme on the same tiny 432-acre site),…
Read MoreNew “Don’t Bank on the Bomb” published
Untentable Investments, the newest edition of the essential divestment guide, Don’t Bank on the Bomb, is out today. The report, whose full title is “Untenable Investments: Nuclear weapon producer and their financiers”, is a joint publication of PAX and ICAN. As shown in the report, between January 2021 and August 2023, 287 financial institutions had…
Read MoreThe fallout never ended
In the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Bob Alvarez has published a special report: “Decades of nuclear weapons tests and other radioactive experiments injured or killed scientists, soldiers, and innocent bystanders. Many of them, and their relatives, have never been compensated, but new efforts may change that. A former Senate staffer and expert on the…
Read MoreRemembering the first French atomic test
In a statement fully endorsed by Beyond Nuclear, which is a member of ICAN, 15 non-governmental organizations issued a statement on February 13, 2024 marking 64 years since France detonated its first atomic “test” in Algeria, leaving a legacy of transgenerational damage and a radiologically contaminated environment. The statement reads: “On the occasion of the…
Read More10 years since “impossible” WIPP leak
[Image of smoke billowing from the WIPP (Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, a repository for nuclear weapons complex transuranic waste) underground in February 2014. This industrial fire — caused by an unmaintained vehicle in the underground — led to a mass evacuation of underground WIPP workers. Around two-dozen were hospitalized due to smoke inhalation, including one…
Read More“Unbelievable” bailouts fund zombie nuke nightmares
[Image designed by Gene Case/Avenging Angels. The image was on the cover of The Nation magazine in 2003, accompanying an article by Christian Parenti about the George W. Bush/Dick Cheney nuclear power relapse.] In Stateline on February 12, 2024, Alex Brown published an article entitled “Federal money could supercharge state efforts to preserve nuclear power:…
Read MoreOH indictments in nuclear-bribery-for-bailouts conspiracy
On February 12, 2024, State of Ohio Attorney General, Dave Yost — flanked by Summit County Prosecutor Sherri Bevan Walsh and Summit County Sheriff Kandy Fatheree — announced dozens of state felony indictments against two former FirstEnergy executives — Charles “Chuck” Jones, former CEO of FirstEnergy, and Michael Dowling, former FirstEnergy senior vice president of…
Read More“Our greatest fear” as uranium mining starts
“It is with heavy hearts that we must acknowledge that our greatest fear has come true,” read a statement from the Havasupai Tribal Council after learning that uranium mining has begun just south of the Grand Canyon. Energy Fuels Inc. says it has begun operations at its Pinyon Plain Mine and bluntly dismissed and disregarded…
Read MoreFirst SMR domino falls, potentially to start cascade
Same financial risks viewed as generic to entire reactor type The nuclear industry is rattled by an Opinion piece appearing in the January 31, 2024 edition of the energy trade journal Utility Dive. The article, astutely entitled “The collapse of NuScale’s project should spell the end for small modular nuclear reactors,” is an extensively documented…
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