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“Strike first”. Daniel Ellsberg recalls
Defuse Nuclear War has released two short video podcasts with Daniel Ellsberg, directed by Oscar-nominee Judith Ehrlich. Ellsberg is well-known for leaking the Pentagon Papers. But before that, he was a high-level nuclear war planner. Ellsberg has spent the last 50 years truth-telling about the threat of nuclear conflict. Watch below.
Read MoreGov. Lujan Grisham statement on Nuclear Regulatory Commission decision to approve Holtec project
See the media statement by New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham (pictured above) here.
Read MoreSupreme Court ruling shakes up 5th Circuit nuclear case
As reported by E&E News.
Read MoreJuly 16 New Mexico frontline community events (1979 Church Rock uranium tailings spill; 1945 “Trinity” atomic bomb “test” blast)
Dear Friends and Colleagues, Please see the email from Lilly Adams at Union of Concerned Scientists, below. Here are links to the documents that Lilly attached to her original email: 1. Red Water Pond Road Community Association/MASE flier; 2. TBDC press release. Please spread the word about these important events. Thank you. —Kevin Kamps, Beyond…
Read MorePress Release: Tularosa Basin Downwinders Consortium to Hold 13th Annual Candlelight Vigil
See the TBDC press release here:
Read MoreMajia Nadesan talks “Radiophobia” on Nuclear Hotseat
“Radiophobia”: Prof. Majia Nadesan (pictured) rips this nuclear industry propaganda talking point to shreds and shows how it has been used against the people of Japan after Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and now Fukushima. She is a professor at Arizona State University and a researcher on a wide range of interconnected topics including governmentality, biopolitics, and risk…
Read MoreTepco executives must pay
From The Japan Times: “In a historic first, the Tokyo District Court on Wednesday ordered four former executives of Tokyo Electric Power Co. to pay ¥13.32 trillion ($97 billion) to the company for damage caused by the disaster at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant following the March 11, 2011, earthquake and tsunami, which…
Read MoreHow nuclear got in the EU Taxonomy
An update from Günter Wippel, uranium-network.org The EU Taxonomy is a classification scheme created by the European Union to label certain activities and investments in those activities as ‘sustainable’. The attempt of the European Commission to put nuclear power generation as well as (fossil) gas into the category of ‘sustainable’ investments was extremely controversial within…
Read More‘Significant harm’
Nuclear power can’t avoid harm to environment despite inclusion under ‘Taxonomy’ The European Parliament has chosen to include nuclear power and gas under the European Commission’s Taxonomy Delegated Act. This effectively — and absurdly — classifies nuclear power and gas as environmentally sustainable economic activities. Inclusion in the Taxonomy theoretically allows nuclear and gas access…
Read More2016 report by Bob Alvarez, addressing cost impacts of pre-disposal for large — and potentially even larger — inventory of spent nuclear fuel at Diablo Canyon nuclear station
From an email sent by Bob Alvarez on July 7, 2022: Dear All– [Below] is a report I wrote for FOE in 2016 addressing the cost impacts of pre-disposal for the large and potentially even larger inventory of spent nuclear fuel at the Diablo Canyon nuclear station. According to the study’s summary: “Spent nuclear fuel…
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