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DOE “Consent-Based Siting” CISF meeting, Nov. 2, 4-5pm ET
[Image above: Texans express non-consent to consolidated interim storage facilities for high-level radioactive waste in their state, or shipments through TX bound for CISFs in other states, such as New Mexico. Learn more at No Nuclear Waste Aqui.] {Beyond Nuclear, in coalition with hundreds of environmental and environmental justice groups across the country, have resisted…
Read MoreAppeals filed en banc to 5th Circuit Court, in favor of Texas dump
[Image above: Opponents to ISP’s CISF at WCS, TX speak out at NRC environmental public comment meeting in Feb., 2017 in Andrews, TX.] NRC and DOJ, as well as ISP, have filed petitions en banc, asking the full roster of judges at the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans to overrule a…
Read MoreNEIS ACTION ALERT – IMMEDIATE ACTION NEEDED! Uphold Governor Pritzker’s veto on SB76, in order to preserve Illinois’s decades-long moratorium against new atomic reactors
Dear Friends and Colleagues, Please see below. If you reside in Illinois, please take direct action. If you don’t live in Illinois, please forward this action alert on to anyone and everyone you know who resides in Illinois, urging them to take action and to also spread the word. As you will see in a…
Read MoreNUKESPEAK: “Clean” hydrogen from nuclear?!
[Image: Front cover of the 1983 book NUKESPEAK, republished with a new introduction post-Fukushima.] Orwell is spinning so fast in his grave, he could be hooked up to a turbo-generator and qualify for clean energy production tax credits (a paraphrase of a 2006 joke by then-Congressman, now U.S. Senator, Ed Markey (Democrat-Massachusetts), about DOE nuclear…
Read MoreYet ANOTHER nearly billion $ bailout at Palisades zombie reactor?!
On top of everything else already?! Crain’s Business Grand Rapids has reported that the Wolverine rural electric co-op, announced five weeks ago as a Power Purchase Agreement partner with Holtec in the Palisades zombie reactor restart scheme, seeks to cover 25% of its PPA costs with a federal bailout from the U.S. Department of Agriculture!…
Read MoreWestinghouse executive gets off light after cooperating in Summer nuclear fraud case
Carl Churchman, the former Westinghouse executive manager of the abandoned Virgil C. Summer nuclear power construction project in South Carolina, was sentenced in federal court on October 17, 2023 for his role the colossal nuclear financial scandal. Churchman had entered a plea of “guilty” in June 2021 for lying to the FBI investigators in an…
Read MoreSOS: Nuclear power’s chilling legacy
The San Onofre Syndrome (SOS), more than a decade in the making, had its world premiere on October 8 and won the Awareness Film Festival’s Documentary Feature Grand Jury Award (out of 100 documentary entries.) This is a great honor and bodes well for the future reach of the film. Many more screenings are being…
Read MoreFirst we bombed New Mexico: A new film
From the promo: First We Bombed New Mexico is the untold story of Trinity, the world’s first nuclear bomb detonated in New Mexico one month before the bombing of Hiroshima. It is a story of government betrayal with tragic consequences. Thousands of New Mexicans – mostly Hispanic and Native American – were exposed to catastrophic…
Read MoreHoltec’s “nuclear white elephant” secret plans revealed: SMRs at all decommissioning sites, $3.3 billion+ bailout for unprecedented Palisades zombie reactor restart
{Image above: Yard sign design by Michigan Safe Energy Future-Kalamazoo Chapter, and Palisades Shutdown Campaign} [Radio stations WSJM in St. Joe, MI, and WORT in Madison, WI, have reported on this story. Also, on the same day as the press release below came out, Beyond Nuclear’s Kevin Kamps made a summary presentation to colleagues via…
Read MoreNuclear power relapse in Sweden?
Beyond Nuclear’s radioactive waste specialist, Kevin Kamps, was quoted in an October 11 E&E News article, ‘Open for business’: Sweden turns to U.S. for nuclear reactors; Sweden’s deputy prime minister recently visited Washington to “go nuclear power plant shopping” and pitch regulatory collaboration to U.S. officials. “Has she forgotten about Chornobyl? (pictured) It took living…
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