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2023 Nuclear-Free Future Award winners announced
Indigenous and minority community activists honored for their work seeking justice for victims and survivors of atomic tests The 2023 Nuclear-Free Future Awards, an annual event that honors the many heroes of the global anti-nuclear movement who work to rid the world of uranium mining, nuclear power and nuclear weapons, will take place in New York…
Read MoreRussia and US to spar over nuclear test ban treaty?
With The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists’ Doomsday Clock now set at “90 seconds to Midnight” and global tensions skyrocketing with potentially widening wars now between Russia/Ukraine and Israel/Gaza, it is a particularly precarious time to add the resumption of active nuclear weapons testing. However, Russia’s envoy to the to the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Organization…
Read MoreBrittle Diablo: NRC Commissioners punt to staff
San Luis Obispo Mothers for Peace and Friends of the Earth — long-time watch-dogs on the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant on central California’s Pacific coast (pictured) — responded to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission Commissioners’ ruling on the environmental coalition’s demand Unit 1 be immediately shut down. The groups are urging the reactor pressure vessel’s…
Read MoreHoltec launches Palisades restart process
On October 3, Holtec met with Nuclear Regulatory Commission staff for the fourth time in six months (view recording), regarding the unprecedented, controversial, expensive, and risky restart of its closed Palisades atomic reactor on Lake Michigan’s shore in Covert, Michigan (pictured). Representatives from an environmental coalition that included Beyond Nuclear, Don’t Waste Michigan, MSEF, NEIS,…
Read MoreYou can help radiation survivors!
Hope exists for those exposed to fallout and other radiation survivors who were ignored. For nearly two decades, Tularosa Basin Downwinders Consortium (TBDC) has pushed to amend The Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA) to include Trinity downwinders. The U.S. Senate as part of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) has not only added Trinity downwinders,…
Read MoreArnie Gundersen on Palisades
Arnie Gundersen on Palisades Enter the following passcode to access the video recording: R8gt=t## This 17-minute recording of Arnie Gundersen, chief engineer at Fairewinds, was made on Monday, September 11, 2023, before a live audience at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, Michigan, about 40 miles downwind of the Palisades atomic reactor, located on the Lake…
Read MoreHoltec’s ‘sleight of hand’ license transfer at Palisades is a textbook ‘bait & switch’
PRESS ADVISORY – Tuesday, October 3, 2023 @ 1:00pm – 3:00pm ET Contact for Comment: Kevin Kamps, radioactive waste specialist, Beyond Nuclear, (240) 462-3216, [email protected] Michael Keegan, Co-Chair, Don’t Waste Michigan, (734) 770-1441, [email protected] Holtec’s ‘sleight of hand’ license transfer of Palisades is a textbook ‘bait & switch’ Date(s) and Time(s): October 03, 2023, 01:00 PM to…
Read MoreMEET THE WINNERS: Nuclear-Free Future Award event
In 2022, three extraordinary activists were honored with the Nuclear-Free Future Award. However, at the end of 2022, the Award transited out of its former home at the Munich-based Nuclear Free Future Foundation and there was no official ceremony. Until now! Beyond Nuclear invites you to meet the 2022 winners at a special online awards…
Read MoreFilms highlight resistance to nuclear industry
S.O.S. — The San Onofre Syndrome, a film more than a decade in the making, will have its world premiere at Regal L.A. Live Theater in downtown Los Angeles on October 8, followed on October 13 by a virtual viewing option. Radioactive: The Women of Three Mile Island, will screen October 4 in Pleasantville, New…
Read MoreAnti-nuclear contingents march for climate
A “Nuclear-Free, Carbon-Free” bloc marched in a major climate protest on the eve of the United Nations General Assembly, last Sunday in New York City. Taking their name from the title of Dr. Arjun Makhijani of IEER’s 2007 book, Carbon-Free and Nuclear-Free: A Roadmap for U.S. Energy Policy, this is at least their third climate…
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