World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2023

Nuclear industry continues in decline despite hype of a “renaissance” “Truth has rarely been a friend to nuclear power and for that reason it hasn’t always been easy to find accurate information about the industry’s vital signs. This is why the World Nuclear Industry Status Report (WNISR) is essential reading for anyone trying to understand…

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Environmental Coalition Intervenes Against Palisades Zombie Reactor Restart

[Image above: Yard sign design by Michigan Safe Energy Future-Kalamazoo Chapter and Palisades Shutdown Campaign; photo by Kevin Kamps] See the December 6, 2023 press release by Beyond Nuclear, Don’t Waste Michigan, and Michigan Safe Energy Future. See the legal and technical documents submitted to NRC on December 5, 2023, below: PETITION TO INTERVENE AND…

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The long struggle for cleanup on Navajo land

A good 12-minute investigative piece by ABC News looks at the toxic legacy of uranium mines on Navajo land, the struggle for cleanup and efforts to ensure no new uranium mines are ever opened there. (Headline photo of Larry King; still from ABC News report.)

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Resisting 20 More Years at Perry

Beyond Nuclear has joined with the Ohio Nuclear-Free Network to challenge Energy Harbor’s (formerly, FirstEnergy Nuclear) application for a 20-year license extension at the Perry Nuclear Power Plant, on the Lake Erie shore in Ohio, northeast of Cleveland (pictured above). If approved by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), the 20-year extension would allow Perry…

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Price-Anderson reauthorization and expansion dropped from US defense authorization bill

Price-Anderson Act reauthorization and expansion to shield  the nuclear industry from severe accident liability  is moving through Congress but has been removed from the National Defense Authorization Act  Hearings on the many concerns are still in question The 20-year reauthorization  of Price-Anderson Act (PAA) is moving forward in Congress to indemnify the nuclear power industry…

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Dubai COP28 Live Stream, 2:30 PM ET,12/01/2023

Samuel Lawrence Foundation’s First Friday / Live Stream from Dubai 28th Conference of Parties (COP28) December 01, 2023, 2:30 PM EST/ 11:30 AM PST    Register/Watch/Archive Scandals continue to rock the United Nation’s 28th Conference of Parties (COP28) on climate crisis with the exposure of the United Arab Emirates (UAE)  plot  to use its host…

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Federal response to Beyond Nuclear et al.’s appeals against Holtec CISF in NM

[Image: Tee shirt design by Noel Marquez of Alliance for Environmental Strategies.] On November 9, 2023, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) and Department of Justice filed their 103-page RESPONDENTS’ INITIAL BRIEF in the case Beyond Nuclear versus NRC, before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. A week later, the…

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NEIS Night With The Experts–Exploring Tritium Dangers: Health and Ecosystem Risks of Internally Incorporated Radionuclides. November 30, 7pm CST

NEIS (Nuclear Energy Information Service of Chicago) announced, re-posted here with permission: You’re Invited to A Night with the Experts Featuring: Dr. Arjun Makhijani President and Co-Founder of the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research   Speaking on Exploring Tritium Dangers Health & Ecosystem Risks of Internally Incorporated Radionuclides Thursday, November 30, 2023 7pm Central…

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US to lead nuclear industry’s COP28 mission

Aside from the purely bad optics of the next global climate crisis conference being held in a major fossil fuel producing nation, John Kerry, former US Senator, Secretary of State and still Special Presidential Climate Envoy to the 28th Conference of Parties (COP28) in Dubai will be lobbying to triple the world’s installed generating capacity…

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NEIS Statement on the Legislature’s Partial Repeal of Illinois’ Nuclear Construction Moratorium, and Embrace of Small Modular Reactors

Thank you to everyone who took action as we forwarded action alerts from Nuclear Energy Information Service of Chicago (NEIS) over the past many weeks. Unfortunately, despite NEIS and its supporters’ best efforts, the Illinois state legislature partially repealed the state’s nuclear construction moratorium. Ironically enough, the state legislature’s unwise move came at the very…

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