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The Ocean is NOT a Radioactive Waste Dump!
On August 26, Beyond Nuclear’s radioactive waste specialist, Kevin Kamps, gave a presentation to the organization No Nukes Kobe, in Japan, via Zoom. His presentation was in English; Rachel Clark translated into Japanese in real time. The presentation was about the hazards of tritium, in light of the ocean dumping of highly radioactive wastewater at…
Read MorePress Statement re: Palisades zombie reactor restart
NEWS FROM BEYOND NUCLEAR For immediate releaseContact: Kevin Kamps, radioactive waste specialist, Beyond Nuclear, [email protected], (240) 462-3216 Wolverine and Hoosier Rural Electric Co-Ops’ Power Purchase Agreement with Holtec for Palisades’ Electricity a ‘Pig in a Poke,’ Says Critic Reliability, Affordability, and Even Safety Put at Extreme Risk by Zombie Atomic Reactor Restart Scheme COVERT TOWNSHIP,…
Read MoreRadiation persists in wild boars
Some radionuclides persist in the environment once released, contaminating the food chain, creating widespread long-term risk of radiation exposure. Radiocesium, which has been released from civilian reactor meltdowns like Chornobyl and Fukushima, but also from worldwide atomic testing, is one such radionuclide. New research demonstrates that wild boars in Bavaria are not only contaminated by…
Read MoreCity of Fort Worth, TX submits amicus brief opposing Holtec CISF in NM
On September 8, 2023, the City of Fort Worth, Texas submitted an amicus curiae brief opposing Holtec International’s consolidated interim storage facility targeting southeastern New Mexico. Ft. Worth’s concern has especially to do with the large number of high-risk shipments of high-level radioactive waste on city railways, over decades, while traveling en route to Holtec’s…
Read MoreDU in Ukraine
The United States plans to supply Ukraine with depleted uranium (DU) munitions as part of a US aid package. DU is also used in tank armor. The U.S. contends that there is no health threat even though DU is both a toxic heavy metal and radioactive, could pose a threat to troops from both Ukraine…
Read MoreIL Letter to Editor speaks to all 50 states
Based in Chicago, IL David Kraft, Director of Nuclear Energy Information Service (NEIS), succinctly writes in his Chicago Sun Times Letter to the Editor (LTE) a warning that presently applies to dozens of state legislatures across the country who are parroting and rebranding the same repeated lies and a dangerous failed energy policy of atomic…
Read MoreOpponents to Holtec’s CISF in NM file Initial Briefs in federal appeal
On September 1st, opponents to Holtec International’s consolidated interim storage facility (CISF) — for high-level radioactive waste, targeted at southeastern New Mexico — filed their Initial Briefs at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. See Beyond Nuclear’s Initial Brief, here. See Don’t Waste Michigan and Sierra Club’s Initial Brief, here.*…
Read MoreGolden Rule-related events in s.w. MI, Sept. 7-13
Please see the event updates below (time-stamped 9pm ET, Friday, Sept. 8, 2023). Please note that all open boat tours in St. Joe, MI have been cancelled. However, all remaining events, to be held in Kalamazoo, will go ahead as previously planned, from Sat., Sept. 9 till Tues., Sept. 12. Hope you can come to…
Read MoreOpening the door to abolition of nuclear war
Karl Grossman, professor of journalism and Beyond Nuclear board member, has examined movie critics’ reviews of Oppenheimer. He states “We are at a highly perilous time in regard to nuclear war. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (1/24/23) moved its “Doomsday Clock,” which it says represents the risk of “nuclear annihilation,” forward to 90 seconds…
Read MoreTritium releases opposed as environmental and health concerns grow
Reactor community residents, state and federal political officials, public health experts, fishing industry advocates and environmentalists in the United States and countries around the world are calling for stricter protective action to prevent the international nuclear industry’s global discharge of its largest, and costliest, volume of liquid radioactive waste from nuclear power sites; tritium, radioactive…
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