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Diablo 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…
Read MoreThird anniversary of the TPNW
From ICAN: Today marks the third anniversary of the entry into force of the historic and landmark Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. There were many simultaneous events held around the world and increasing concerns raised about the wars currently being conducted by two nuclear-armed nations, Israel and Russia. A statement from the International…
Read MoreBeyond Nuclear v. NRC, Deferred Joint Appendix published
[Tee shirt graphic design by Noel Marquez, co-founder of Alliance for Environmental Strategies (AFES) in southeastern New Mexico] CISF UPDATE Second Highest Court in the Land Our federal appeal against Holtec’s high-level radioactive waste consolidated interim storage facility (CISF) targeting New Mexico is coming to a head, after many long years. On January 16, the…
Read MoreOur letter in the Boston Globe
After Ernest Moniz and Armond Cohen, in an oped in the Boston Globe, suggested they knew what the world wants is more nuclear power, the paper published our letter to the editor. As it’s behind a paywall, you can see a PDF here. We pointed out that the writers’ aspirations were detached from reality, given…
Read MoreInterview with Melissa Parke
On this week’s edition of Nuclear Hotseat, host Libbe HaLevy interviews Melissa Parke, (pictured in photo by ICAN) the new executive director of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), which won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2017. HaLevy writes: Melissa Parke took over the helm of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons…
Read MoreHoltec is infamous for lying
[Tee shirt graphic art, above, by Noel Marquez, co-founder of Alliance for Environmental Strategies (AFES) in southeastern New Mexico.] Holtec is infamous for lying. Or at least for major reversals. Also known as con jobs. A few examples: (1.) Holtec said beginning in 2020 that it wanted to take over the Palisades nuclear power plant…
Read MoreMass Nuclear Layoffs
In Victorian times, cautionary tales were popular for deterring naughty behavior amongst children. Today, we are awash in such stories in the nuclear power sector — the latest regarding layoffs — and our politicians should be reading them. The latest example is NuScale, the company whose small modular reactor design was considered most likely to…
Read MoreMultiple nuclear giveaways backfire
An E&E article, “No takers for Biden’s nuclear bailout,” reports “[a] Department of Energy attempt last year to bail out struggling or recently shuttered nuclear plants failed to land a single qualified taker…DOE planned to announce the results of the 2023 bailout attempt by January 1, 2024, according to DOE’s March guidance for the second…
Read MoreCOP28’s tripling nuclear energy is unachievable
An opinion piece in the Boston Globe co-authored by Ernest Moniz, nuclear physicist and former US Secretary of Energy and Armond Cohen, lawyer and executive director of US-based Clean Air Task Force, defends tripling nuclear power capacity globally “as an essential part of mitigating climate change” to come out of the United Nations talks convened…
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