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Neo-Nazi previously implicated in plot to attack nuclear plants now arrested for planning grid sabotage around Baltimore
As reported by the Washington Post, in an article entitled “Duo accused of neo-Nazi plot to target Maryland power stations: Atomwaffen founder Brandon Russell and Sarah Clendaniel allegedly sought to attack substations around Baltimore,” white supremacists are again implicated in playing with radioactive fire. The article reports: Russell, a former Florida National Guard member, is…
Read MoreDiablo Canyon to resubmit license renewal application lapsed since 2016
With the strenuous pushback from safe energy groups, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has rejected a request by Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) to resume the federal agency’s review of a 20-year license renewal application for California’s last remaining nuclear power station at Diablo Canyon. The power company had allowed the relicensing application’s review…
Read MoreTime to embrace nuclear prohibition goals
With the growing risk that the war in Ukraine could involve the use of nuclear weapons, Beyond Nuclear has signed a letter of support for H. Res. 77, introduced by US Rep. Jim McGovern (D-MA) and Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-OR). The resolution calls on the United States to embrace the goals and provisions of the…
Read MoreRisks around Ukraine’s nukes grow
Just this week, we learn of yet more shelling all too close to the six-reactor Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in Ukraine, caught up in the most extensive fighting taking place in the southeast region of the country. As we approach one year since Russia invaded Ukraine, on February 24, 2022, the risks to Ukraine’s 15…
Read MoreAn unbreakable linK? Nuclear power and nuclear weapons
Often referred to as “two sides of the same coin”, the commercial and military nuclear sectors are inextricably linked and mutually dependent. And yet, nuclear power is sometimes seen as the benign stepchild of the wicked nuclear weapons stepmother. In fact, the longterm and widespread damage that a nuclear power disaster can inflict on millions…
Read MorePress Release: Environmental Coalition to Energy Secretary Granholm: Again Reject Massive Bailout Scheme at Palisades “Zombie” Atomic Reactor
NEWS FROM BEYOND NUCLEAR For immediate release Contact: Daisee Francour, Communications Director, Indigenous Environmental Network, [email protected], (415) 312-5958; Kevin Kamps, Radioactive Waste Specialist, Beyond Nuclear, [email protected], (240) 462-3216; Michael Keegan, Co-Chair, Don’t Waste Michigan, [email protected], (734) 770-1441; Diane D’Arrigo, Radioactive Waste Project Director, Nuclear Information and Resource Service, [email protected], (301) 270-6477 ext. 3. Environmental Coalition…
Read MoreBeyond Nuclear Vows to Fight on Against High-Level Radioactive Waste Dumps Targeting Permian Basin
NEWS FROM BEYOND NUCLEAR For immediate release Contact: Kevin Kamps, Radioactive Waste Specialist, Beyond Nuclear, (240) 462-3216, [email protected] Beyond Nuclear Vows to Fight on Against High-Level Radioactive Waste Dumps Targeting Permian Basin D.C. Circuit Court Ruling in ISP, TX Separate and Distinct from Holtec, NM Case The Permian Basin and Washington, D.C., January 25,…
Read MoreGot war? Buy more nuclear power plants!
The Ukraine energy ministry (pictured in a recent meeting) has announced, as war has thrust its nuclear power plants into the jaws of radiological disaster, that it has ordered two new Westinghouse AP1000 reactors for the Khmelnytskyi nuclear site. The announcement absurdly suggested that the reactors could be completed and running by 2030-2032 and would…
Read MoreD.C. Circuit denies/dismisses all parties and objections opposed to the ISP CISF in TX
See the Court’s ruling, above. Or, email [email protected] and he will email you a PDF of the court ruling, upon request. Beyond Nuclear, Don’t Waste Michigan et al. (a six-group and one-individual grassroots coalition), and Fasken Land and Minerals, Ltd./Permian Basin Land and Royalty Owners, have resisted the Interim Storage Partners (ISP) consolidated interim storage…
Read MoreIt’s 90 seconds to midnight. Doomsday Clock moves closer
Today, the scientists at The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists moved the hands of their famous Doomsday Clock the closest to midnight the clock has ever been. Responding to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the less-than-veiled threats by Russian president, Vladimir Putin, to use nuclear weapons, the hands of the clock were moved to 90…
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