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43 Groups to Michigan State Legislators: Oppose $300 Million Bailout to Restart Closed Palisades “Zombie” Atomic Reactor
Organizations Cite Astronomical Expense and Extreme Risk of Unprecedented Scheme See the letter, here. See the press release, here. Also, see a full page paid advertisement by the Alliance to Halt Fermi 3, published in the Lansing State Journal on June 28, 2023.
Read MoreExploring Tritium Dangers
Exploring Tritium Dangers: Health and Ecosystem Risks of Internally Incorporated Radionuclides, by Arjun Makhijani, Ph.D., uses the tritium pollutant, which forms radioactive water, to illustrate the risks of taking any radioisotope into the human body. Tritium easily crosses the placenta (the book makes clear it is not the only radioisotope that does so) and can…
Read MoreNuclear fantasies block climate action
A network of groups across Canada has announced the launch of the SMR Education Task Force to share under-reported facts about small modular nuclear reactors (SMRs) with members of Parliament and provincial legislatures. We begin with the latest report from Canada Energy Regulator (CER). This federal document, called Canada’s Energy Future, projects that enough new nuclear reactors (SMRs) will…
Read MoreAlgonquin First Nations say ‘no’ to nuke waste
On June 20, chiefs of two Algonquin First Nations and the Grand Chiefs of the Algonquin Anishinabeg Nation Tribal Council (AANTC) and the Algonquin Nation Secretariat (ANS) – representing 10 of the 11 Algonquin First Nations – called on the federal government to abandon the current plan for a massive, aboveground radioactive waste dump on…
Read MoreEconomic Impacts from Japan threat to dump Fukushima radioactive water
The economic impacts to Japan’s seafood import business are already happening with a drop of 30% for May 2023 because of Japan’s plan to dump the Fukushima tank farm’s one million tons of radioactive effluent into the Pacific. This will be by no means the one and only radioactive dumping once it starts. The radioactive…
Read MoreDepleted uranium danger in Ukraine
On the current Nuclear Hotseat, depleted uranium expert, academic and activist Damacio Lopez (pictured left with International Uranium Film Festival founder, Norbert Suchanek) explains how DU weapons were developed only two miles from his childhood home in Socorro, New Mexico; his trips to Iraq to measure radiation from DU weapons; and his drive to contact Ukraine’s President…
Read MoreMore trouble at Vogtle
The nuclear drumbeaters ignore stories like this latest setback out of Georgia because the inconvenient truth of nuclear power is that it is NOT reliable, is far too slow and expensive and of course comes with a myriad of safety problems and no solution to the radioactive waste it generates. The only US flagship for…
Read MoreUS nuclear facilities hacked
A contractor for the department’s Office of Science and national laboratories, including Tennessee’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (pictured) that produces uranium for nuclear bombs and conducts nuclear energy research, was among the victims of a wide-ranging cyberattack that saw several federal agencies hacked, according to Bloomberg. “The Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education is…
Read MoreFusion project a hot mess
Billed as a panacea energy source for the world, the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER), a fusion technology first conceived of in the 1980s and formally begun in 2006, is billions of dollars over budget and years behind in construction. How much more it will cost and how long it will take no one is…
Read MoreFight back on nuke propaganda — here’s how
We are facing a saturation propaganda campaign from the pro-nuclear lobby claiming that nuclear power is a climate solution. It’s time for all of us to respond. To make it easier, Beyond Nuclear has provided a series of Talking Points addressing this topic. In addition to demonstrating how continuing with nuclear power impedes climate chaos…
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