Oppenheimer’s bomb: Health impacts continue

At some New Mexico Oppenheimer screenings, a 15-second advertisement will precede the movie. “Oppenheimer’s bomb led to decades of nuclear testing across the Southwest,” it says. “Communities still suffer health impacts related to the tests, many without government recognition or justice.” The ad is intended to point out that, for those who actually live in…

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Questions linger as EU lifts curbs on Japanese food imports

In a quid-pro-quo, the EU agreed to lift Japanese food restrictions, initially instituted in the wake of the ongoing Fukushima nuclear disaster. The EU is hoping Japan reciprocates by easing controls of its own on EU farm goods. The timing is suspicious, given Japan’s threat to release radioactively contaminated water from the ruined Fukushima nuclear…

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Why the nuclear ban treaty matters

July 16 marks the commemoration of the first atomic bomb detonation — the 1945 Trinity test in Nevada. The eagerly anticipated feature film, Oppenheimer, about Robert Oppenheimer, the later regretful “father of the atom bomb”, will open in cinemas on July 21.  And it is now six years since the historic Treaty on the Prohibition…

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The baloney about bananas

We often hear those in the business of pro-nuclear propaganda claiming that living around a nuclear power plant is less harmful than eating bananas — which contain a version of radioactive potassium (K-40). At the same time, nuclear advocates assert that releasing tritium (radioactive hydrogen) into the environment is harmless to human health. But this…

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Palisades Nuclear Watchdogs to Gov. Whitmer: Freeze $150 Million Legislature Approved for Unprecedented Reactor Restart on June 28

NEWS FROM BEYOND NUCLEAR For immediate release Contact: Kevin Kamps, radioactive waste specialist, Beyond Nuclear, (240) 462-3216, [email protected] Terry Lodge, Legal Counsel, (419) 205-7084, [email protected] Michael Keegan, Co-Chair, Don’t Waste Michigan, (734) 770-1441, [email protected] Palisades Nuclear Watchdogs to Gov. Whitmer: Freeze $150 Million Legislature Approved for Unprecedented Reactor Restart on June 28th Fired Holtec CFO…

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Pacific overtures

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has given its blessing to Japan to start the release of more than a million tonnes of radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean. On this week’s Nuclear Hotseat, Linda Pentz Gunter’s Hot Story looks at how the IAEA’s conflict of interest — it is at once a watchdog and…

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“Milestone” reactor still at zero power

The Vogtle-3 nuclear reactor in Georgia, which was hailed as a “milestone” in nuclear power advancement when it first went critical in March, is still at zero power. Two days after that March 14 “milestone”, Vogtle-3 was automatically shut down after reaching just 18 percent power before encountering an electrical issue that caused the loss…

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Watch Tritium Truths: Facts vs. Deceptions

Given the plans to dump tritium into Cape Cod Bay from Pilgrim, the dumping of tritium from Indian Point into the Hudson, the history of batch releases and leaks from Braidwood, the proposed release from Los Alamos, and the plan to dump the Fukushima tritiated water into the Pacific, we have put together a short…

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Koreans condemn IAEA Fukushima decision

The Korean coalition, Peoples’ Action to Stop Dumping of Fukushima Daiichi Radioactive Water, has issued a strong condemnation of the International Atomic Energy Agency’s (IAEA) rubber stamp decision to allow Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) to begin dumping radioactively contaminated water into the Pacific Ocean from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear site. In a press release, the network…

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