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First 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…
Read MoreBeyond Nuclear v. NRC: our day in court against Holtec’s CISF in NM!
[Tee shirt design, above, by Noel Marquez, co-founder of Alliance for Environmental Strategies (AFES), southeastern New Mexico.] After many long, hard-fought years, Beyond Nuclear will finally get its day in court against the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s (NRC) approval of the construction and operation license for the single largest high-level radioactive waste dump on Earth…
Read MoreHinkley cost soars to $59 billion
The two-reactor 3,260MW Hinkley Point C nuclear site still under construction in the UK is set to become the second most expensive building in the world as the new price tag soars to $59 billion, while the expected startup date is pushed out to “after 2029”. The original Hinkley budget was $23 billion. Its builder,…
Read MoreUS nuclear weapons returning to Britain
From Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND): Recently reported documents add further evidence that the US is planning to deploy nuclear weapons to Britain, with CND forwarding its concerns to Suffolk Council. The files describes “Stationary and Mobile Guard Shacks” which will be constructed at RAF Lakenheath for ballistic protection for the 48th Security Forces Squadron…
Read MoreThe IAEA’s hypocrisy
Here’s the International Atomic Energy Agency once again sounding the alarm about war raging around nuclear power plants in Ukraine: “The nuclear safety and security situation at Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) remains extremely fragile with ‘very real’ potential dangers of a major accident, Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi (pictured) of the International Atomic…
Read More“Unspeakable horror”
Beyond Nuclear board member, Karl Grossman, writing this week on Counterpunch, gives a thorough run-down of the nuclear threats we face, which in part contributed to the decision by The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists to keep the hands of the Doomsday Clock at 90 seconds to midnight, the closest they have ever been. You…
Read MoreBeyond Nuclear v. NRC
[Tee shirt design, above, by Noel Marquez, co-founder of Alliance for Environmental Strategies (AFES) in southeastern New Mexico.] On January 22, 2024, Beyond Nuclear’s legal counsel, Diane Curran of Washington, D.C., and Mindy Goldstein of Atlanta, GA, filed our PETITIONER BEYOND NUCLEAR’S FINAL OPENING BRIEF, and REPLY BRIEF, in our federal appeal against the U.S.…
Read MoreIt’s still 90 seconds to midnight
The Doomsday Clock, established in 1947 by The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, when it stood at seven minutes to midnight, remains at 90 seconds to midnight, the closest the hands have ever been to zero hour. The Doomsday Clock was moved to 90 seconds to midnight a year ago, a reflection of the growing…
Read MoreDiablo rip-off
From San Luis Obispo Mothers for Peace: The $1.1 billion federal aid package to support an additional five years of operation of the Diablo Canyon nuclear plant takes advantage of the nation’s taxpayers. Even those not served by PG&E or Diablo Canyon (with few exceptions), will be subsidizing an unprofitable, privately-owned utility that produces the most…
Read MorePushback in The Bulletin
Beyond Nuclear was a signatory to an article published today in The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, which, as described in our preamble, was a response to a baffling condemnation of the nuclear ban treaty as somehow endangering peace, by Zachary Kallenborn and disappointingly published by the august magazine. Our collective response, authored by a…
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