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Trump attack on U.S. environment law
Comments of Beyond Nuclear on the White House Council on Environmental Quality’s February 24, 2025, Interim Final Rule “Removal of National Environmental Policy Act Implementing Regulations” [Docket CEQ-2025-0002] March 27, 2025 To whom it may concern at the White House Council on Environmental Quality, Beyond Nuclear provides its comments on the Council on Environmental Quality…
Read MoreTRUMP♥️☢️
[“Burning Money” image by Gene Case/Avenging Angels. It was featured on the cover of The Nation magazine in 2003, accompanying an article by Christian Parenti about the George W. Bush/Dick Cheney attempted nuclear power relapse.] TRUMP Bailouts Continue to Flow During the presidential campaign and since taking office, Donald Trump has hooted and hollered…
Read MoreTMI, 46 YEARS ON
TMI, 46 YEARS ON Restart Despite Past Disaster?! On March 28, 1979, Three Mile Island (TMI) Unit 2 in Pennsylvania had a 50% meltdown (pictured), the worst commercial reactor disaster in U.S. history. Ignoring that cautionary tale, Constellation schemes to restart Unit 1, closed for good in 2019, supposedly to power Microsoft A.I. data centers.…
Read MoreHow a Cheap Drone Punctured Chernobyl’s 40,000-Ton Shield
[Photo: Still image/screen grab taken from a handout video provided by the UKRAINIAN PRESIDENTIAL PRESS SERVICE] The steel shell that encloses the site of the world’s worst nuclear disaster was built to endure for a century. But war was a scenario its engineers never envisioned. As reported by Kim Barker in the New York Times,…
Read MoreZOMBIE NUKE?! Coalition Opposes Duane Arnold
ZOMBIE NUKE?! Coalition Opposes Duane Arnold NextEra’s Fukushima twin design reactor in Iowa closed for good after a close call with catastrophe in August 2020. A direct hit by 140 mile per hour derecho winds not only damaged the cooling towers, but also caused a loss of offsite power. The 1% risk of a meltdown…
Read MoreSMR-300s: Not-So-Small, But Oh-So-Mythical Reactors
[Yard sign design by Michigan Safe Energy Future-Kalamazoo Chapter and Shut Down Palisades Campaign. Photo by Kevin Kamps.] SMR-300s Not-So-Small, But Oh-So-Mythical Reactors Beyond Nuclear and Don’t Waste Michigan did battle with Holtec over so-called Small Modular Reactor (SMR) new builds at Palisades in southwest Michigan. But Holtec’s 300 Megawatt-electric reactors are 4.5 times larger…
Read More$57M disbursement of DOE loan propels restart of Palisades Nuclear Plant
[“Burning Money” graphic by Gene Case/Avenging Angels. The image graced the cover of The Nation magazine in 2003, accompanying an article by Christian Parenti about the George W. Bush/Dick Cheney administration’s attempted nuclear power relapse.] As reported by Abigail Taylor at News Channel 3 (WWMT) in Kalamazoo, MI on Monday, March 17, 2025. Beyond Nuclear’s…
Read MoreZOMBIE and SMRs?! Palisades Targeted for Both
[Yard sign design by Michigan Safe Energy Future-Kalamazoo Chapter and Shut Down Palisades Campaign. Photo by Kevin Kamps.] April 2025 marks three years since this nuclear nightmare began: Holtec’s decommissioning scam was revealed at the Palisades atomic reactor on the Great Lakes shore in Michigan. Holtec CEO Krishna Singh floated the trial balloon of building…
Read MoreContinued Propaganda About AI and Nuclear Power
An article by M.V. Ramana, published at Counterpunch. M. V. Ramana is the Simons Chair in Disarmament, Global and Human Security at the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs, University of British Columbia and the author of The Power of Promise: Examining Nuclear Energy in India. He is also the author of Nuclear is Not…
Read MoreFukushima 14 years later and still uncertain future
Beyond Nuclear turns to our Japanese colleagues to report on the 14th annual commemoration of the March 11, 2011 nuclear catastrophe at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station. This timeless disaster started with a severe offshore earthquake followed by a 48-ft high tsunami. Combined, this two unimaginable disasters caused the nuclear power station’s loss of…
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