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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…
Read MoreOral 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…
Read MoreShould Palisades Nuclear Plant Be Brought Back to Life?
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Read MoreIAEA fraud in Brussels
On March 21, 2024, the International Atomic Energy Agency will host a Nuclear Energy Summit for world leaders and other officials at the expo center (pictured) in Brussels, Belgium. This follows the announcement at the COP28 climate summit last December to triple global nuclear capacity by 2050. This is an absurd fantasy, too late, too expensive,…
Read MoreRemembering the horror of Castle Bravo
Filmmaker Andrew Nisker Remembers the Nuclear Victims and Survivors of Bikini Atoll on this Marshall Islands Remembrance Day Seventy years ago, on March 1, the U.S government exploded the first of a series of thermonuclear weapons over Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands. The hydrogen bomb, codenamed Bravo, had an explosive yield that was a…
Read MoreUPDATE: RECA expansion on Senate floor next week
From the Congressional Record Daily Digest of February 29: “Radiation Exposure Compensation Reauthorization Act (RECA)–Agreement: A unanimous-consent-time agreement was reached providing that at a time to be determined by the Majority Leader, in consultation with the Republican Leader, but no later than Friday, March 8, 2024, Senate begin consideration of S. 3853, to extend…
Read MorePrice-Anderson Act renewal hidden from public
ADVANCE Nuclear Act of 2023 (HR6544) with Price-Anderson renewal for 40 years passes US House floor vote Bipartisan support to extend severe accident liability protection to “inherently safe” new reactors? The “Price-Anderson Nuclear Industries Indemnity Act”, also known as the “Price-Anderson Act” (PAA), is moving for renewal by Congress. The federal law to shield the…
Read MoreSenator promises to attach RECA extension to all bills
Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) vows to attach the extension of RECA exposure compensation to all bills moving in the Senate until it passes. RECA reauthorization passed the Senate with strong bi-partisan support. Now Hawley is pushing to pass an amendment reauthorizing the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA) and expanding its coverage to more states, including…
Read MoreBreakdown of Bailouts at Holtec’s Palisades NPP
[Image: Design 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 nuclear power relapse.] [September 17, 2025 update: On September 17, 2025, it was reported by various news media outlets that Holtec had received its sixth…
Read MoreRosatom — Putin’s Geopolitical Arm
The French energy corporation Framatome operates the German nuclear fuel facility in Lingen through its subsidiary Advanced Nuclear Fuels. Two years ago, the state-owned French energy company EDF attempted to collaborate with the similarly state-owned Russian nuclear energy group Rosatom in a joint fuel element production venture, but those plans were scuttled following the Russian…
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