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Experts say nuclear power bad for climate crisis
A panel of leading independent experts concluded in a Congressional briefing (video) June 2, that attempts to use nuclear power to help curtail the climate crisis has failed, and current nuclear subsidies should, instead, go to renewables. In fact, continuing nuclear steals resources from real climate solutions. Further, shutting down current dangerous reactors doesn’t mean…
Read MoreFukushima dumping threat makes U.S. groups ask FDA for tighter food standards
As Japan prepares to release 1.3 million tons of Fukushima radioactive wastewater into the Pacific Ocean this summer, an increasing number of countries continue to voice strong opposition. A report released Monday by Fukushima operator, TEPCO, showed that fish caught off the harbor at Fukushima contained 180 times the level allowed in Japan of radioactive…
Read MoreFukushima fish too radioactive for human consumption
According to a report issued on Monday by Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), operator of the catastrophically ruined Fukushima nuclear reactors, “fish caught in the harbor of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Japan far exceed safety levels for human consumption.” The content of cesium 137, a radioactive isotope that is a common byproduct…
Read MoreMayors call for action against nuclear war
At the close of its 91st Annual Meeting in Columbus, Ohio, on June 5, 2023, the final business plenary of the United States Conference of Mayors (USCM) unanimously adopted a new resolution, titled, “Calling for Urgent Action to Avoid Nuclear War, Resolve the Ukraine Conflict, Lower Tensions with China, and Redirect Military Spending to Meet…
Read MoreNGOs Tell Biden that US Nuclear Plants Aren’t Safe from Attack
Source: Nuclear Energy Information Service (NEIS), www.neis.org NEWS RELEASE For immediate release Contacts: Dave Kraft, [email protected], (773) 342-7650 Kevin Kamps, [email protected], (240) 462-3216 Steve Kent, [email protected], (914) 589-5988 As the World Worries About Rising Nuclear Dangers in Ukraine, NGOs Tell Biden that US Nuclear Plants Aren’t Safe from Attack While IAEA Pushes to…
Read MoreDestruction of Nova Kakhovka dam jeopardizes Zaporizhzhia NPP cooling
June 9, 2023 , UPDATE: Ukrainian operators at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power station (still under Russian military occupation) warn that the water level in the Kakhovka reservoir behind the breached Nova Kakhovka Dam has dropped below 42 feet and that the nuclear reactor’s cooling water pumping station is no longer capable of pumping water up…
Read MoreNuScale goes off the scale
Small Modular Reactors are far too expensive, have terrible economies of scale and will never get here in enough numbers or in time to make any contribution toward mitigating the climate crisis that is already upon us. Just to confirm the folly of pursuing such a path, NuScale and the Utah Associated Municipal Power Systems…
Read MoreFrench anti-nuclear movement relaunches
In the face of nuclear threats on multiple fronts — nuclear power and nuclear weapons expansion, reactor license extensions, radioactive waste dumps and fuel pool expansion at La Hague to name a few — the French anti-nuclear movement relaunched last Saturday during a packed meeting in Paris. The new name for the movement is La…
Read MoreRadiation risks at Zaporizhzhia
Bellona.org has published a new report — The Radiation Risks of Seizing the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant — examining the dangers that have arisen since the plant was seized by Russia early in that country’s invasion of Ukraine. Occupied by Russian troops since March 4, 2022, the report looks at how this has “forced six…
Read MoreJapan could run reactors beyond 60 years
A decision by the Japanese parliament to extend the operating lives of the country’s reactors beyond 60 years has been met with public outcry and also some opposition in the press, including the Asahi Shimbun, whose editorial accused the Diet, as the parliament is known, of taking the lessons of Fukushima “lightly.” The paper has…
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