IAEA fairy tales exposed in Brussels

More than 600 organizations from around the world signed a declaration condemning the IAEA and its Nuclear Energy Summit in Brussels, and 40 organizations were represented at a counter demonstration there to expose the fairy tales being spun inside the conference. Counterpunch also featured a Beyond Nuclear oped and Beyond Nuclear handed out a nuclear…

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Reprocessing: ELEA says the quiet part out loud at Holtec in NM

[Tee shirt design by Noel Marquez, co-founder of Alliance for Environmental Strategies in southeastern New Mexico.] In a March 17, 2024 article by Adrian Hedden in the Carlsbad, New Mexico Current Argus, entitled ” ‘State consent’ on nuclear stripped from Senate bill: Opponents try to use federal budget to call for state consent for nuclear…

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Full 5th Circuit Court Upholds Victory against Texas Nuke Waste Dump

On March 14, 2024, the full panel of 16 judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit, in New Orleans, by a 9 to 7 vote, upheld the August 2023 ruling by a 3-judge panel, nullifying the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s (NRC) September 2021 license approval for Interim Storage Partners, LLC’s (ISP)…

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New Backgrounders about Palisades & Big Rock Point!

[Yard sign design by Michigan Safe Energy Future-Kalamazoo Chapter and Palisades Shutdown Campaign; photo by Kevin Kamps] Beyond Nuclear’s radioactive waste specialist, Kevin Kamps, has published three new backgrounders about the closed for good Palisades atomic reactor (Covert Township, near South Haven), and its sibling closed reactor site, the decommissioned Big Rock Point (Hayes Township,…

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NRC Cites Holtec for Improper Use of Decommissioning Trust Funds

Holtec Decommissioning International has misspent money from the decommissioning trust funds at all four nuclear plants it owns, using it to pay for activities like parades and softball games when federal regulations restrict the use to decommissioning of the reactors and cleaning up the contaminated sites. As reported by Christine Legere in the Provincetown Independent…

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Fukushima disaster not over

A statement from Citizens’ Nuclear Information Center, Tokyo: On March 11, 2011, the Great East Japan Earthquake, a magnitude 9.0 earthquake, occurred off the Pacific coast of the Tohoku region. This massive earthquake and ensuing tsunami set off a severe accident at the Tokyo Electric Power Company’s Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station, which was rocked…

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Follow the money

From Libbe HaLevy, host of Nuclear Hotseat (pictured at the 2023 Nuclear-Free Future Awards by Adam Stoltman): Want to know how to stop nukes? Follow the money – and then take it away from the nuclear industry. This week we talk with Mary Beth Gallagher. She is Director of Engagements for Domini Impact Investments, a…

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Senate approves RECA extension but will the House?

The U.S. Senate last week voted in favor of expanding coverage included under the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA) in a 69-30 vote after the expanded RECA amendment was first passed under and then stripped from the National Defense Authorization Act last summer by a conference committee of senators and representatives. The RECA expansion act…

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Oral Arguments, Beyond Nuclear v. NRC: Report Back

[Tee shirt design by Noel Marquez, co-founder, Alliance for Environmental Strategies, southeastern New Mexico. The design features New Mexico’s state colors of gold and turqoise, the Zia Pueblo Sun symbol, and the shape of the state.] On March 5th, opponents appealing the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s (NRC) approval of Holtec International’s license application for highly…

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