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Erwin Citizens Awareness Network Questions NFS Nuclear Weapons Project
ERWIN CITIZENS AWARENESS NETWORK, INC. (ECAN) P.O. Box 1152 Jonesborough, TN 37659 Media Contacts: Linda Cataldo Modica-ECAN President, 423-676-2925 Barbara O’Neal-ECAN Vice President, 423-928-0400 Terry Lodge-ECAN Attorney, 419-205-7084 For Immediate Release: November 7, 2022 Erwin Citizens Awareness Network Questions NFS Nuclear Weapons Project Opposes NRC Licensing of Bomb-grade Uranium Deal at BWXT Subsidiary in…
Read MoreAn update on TMI decommissioning
Eric Epstein, chairman of Three Mile Island Alert (TMIA), provides an update on the seemingly endless decommissioning process at Three Mile Island as this week’s guest on Nuclear Hotseat. TMIA is a safe energy organization based in Harrisburg, PA that monitors the Peach Bottom, Susquehanna, and Three Mile Island nuclear generating stations. For more than 35…
Read MoreAustria holds the anti-nuclear line
Austria, described as “Europe’s most fervent anti-nuclear country,” is now planning protests and blockades in opposition to major nuclear build-out plans in neighboring Czech Republic that would threaten the health and safety of Austrian citizens. Austria is a nuclear-free country and is currently suing the European Commission for including nuclear power under its so-called “green”…
Read MoreA legend in her lifetime
This week’s Nuclear Hotseat with Libbe HaLevy features an extended interview with Dr. Helen Caldicott. Writes HaLevy: “Dr. Helen Caldicott has probably done more to make the public around the world aware of the dangers of nuclear weapons, nuclear war, nuclear reactors and the entire nuclear fuel chain than any other individual in history. During…
Read MoreMajority of countries want a nuclear ban
Against the backdrop of the war in Ukraine, with its attendant nuclear risks, a majority of the world’s countries have reaffirmed their support for the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW), writes the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons. The TPNW entered into force last year and makes nuclear weapons illegal under international…
Read MoreFrance restarts coal plants as cracking nuclear fleet drives a crisis
In response to an emerging electricity shortage this winter, France is restarting permanently closed coal-fired electricity plants. France’s energy crisis is part of a broader predicament across Europe ignited by sanctions against Russia for its invasion of sovereign Ukraine. Russia cut off its natural gas pipeline to France on June 15, 2022. But France now…
Read MoreVirtual Teach-In on the Current Nuclear Crisis, Thursday, October 27, 7 to 9pm ET
Vasily Arkhipov Day: After 60 Years, The Nuclear Threat Returns A Virtual Teach-In on the Current Nuclear Crisis, Thursday, October 27, 7 to 9pm Thursday, October 27 marks the 60th anniversary of the day Vasily Arkhipov (pictured above) single-handedly saved the world from nuclear annihilation. Off the coast of Cuba, the US Navy was attacking…
Read MoreDirty bombs and Ukraine’s reactors
Beyond Nuclear today issued a press release as a reminder to media that nuclear power plants are inherently dangerous pre-deployed nuclear weapons. The possibility that nuclear reactor sites in Ukraine — and specifically the radioactive dry storage casks — might be used as “dirty bombs”, sends a clear message that nuclear power is a far…
Read MoreSchool contaminated by atomic bomb waste
Jana Elementary in the suburbs of St. Louis, is a majority minority school. It is also contaminated by radionuclides left over from a nearby WWII atomic weapons facility operated by Mallinckrodt Chemical Works. The school sits in the floodplain of Coldwater Creek, which itself was contaminated. Samples collected just outside and inside the school found…
Read MoreUranium exports fuel Russian war
Ironically, some of the finances fueling Russia’s war on Ukraine are coming from the very countries that decry Russia’s invasion. European Union countries continue to purchase Russian raw uranium and nuclear fuel for their nuclear reactors — to the tune of almost $455 million a year if Kazakhstan is included — funds that in turn…
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