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How 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…
Read MoreEU Parliament “greenwashing” nukes and gas
Sound science and sustainable economics could globally accelerate renewable energy policy to abate the climate crisis. Instead, on July 6, 2022, members of the European Union (EU) Parliament decided to let politics trump science and voted 328 to 278 to reject a resolution that would have blocked nuclear power and natural gas from being included…
Read MoreEnergy Department Pressed on Nuclear Fuel, Waste in Budget Bill
As reported by Bloomberg Law, re: consolidated interim storage facility and high-assay low enriched uranium funding levels at the U.S. Department of Energy, as decided and provided each year by the U.S. House Appropriations Committee, using federal taxpayer funds.
Read MoreCommemorating the Trinity Test on July 16
July 5, 2022 email from Sofia Rose Wolman: Greetings, We’re writing to encourage your ongoing action, through marking Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and Trinity Day this summer. This particular email is about July 16: the date of the Trinity Test in 1945, when the first nuclear weapon was exploded in the USA state of New Mexico. Wherever…
Read MoreJuly 16 – 43rd Uranium Tailings Spill Legacy Commemoration, Churchrock, New Mexico
Speak Up July 7 Concerning Plans for WIPP To Remain Open Essentially Forever
Action Alert: Speak Up July 7 Concerning Plans for WIPP To Remain Open Essentially Forever Thursday, July 7th, at 5:30 pm [Mountain Time, which is 7:30 pm Eastern/6:30 pm Central/4:30 pm Pacific], DOE will host a virtual and in-person WIPP Community Forum and Open House in Santa Fe. It will take place at the Santa Fe…
Read MoreProhibition of federal funds for private interim storage of spent nuclear fuel
U.S. Representative Henry Cuellar (Democrat-Texas) introduced an amendment at the House Appropriations Committee markup hearing and vote on Fiscal Year 2023 Energy & Water Development funding that would have prohibited any federal spending on privately-owned consolidated interim storage facilities for highly radioactive waste. See the Cuellar amendment here: Rep. Cuellar did offer his amendment, but…
Read MorePublic Stonewalled in Holtec Takeover of Palisades and Big Rock Point Atomic Reactor Sites: Entergy Confirms License Transfer; No NRC Public Hearings Held
NEWS FROM BEYOND NUCLEAR For immediate release Contact: Terry Lodge, legal counsel, Toledo, OH, (419) 205-7084, [email protected] Michael Keegan, Co-Chair, Don’t Waste Michigan, Monroe, MI, (734) 770-1441, [email protected] Kevin Kamps, Radioactive Waste Specialist, Beyond Nuclear, Takoma Park, MD, (240) 462-3216, [email protected] Bette Pierman, President, Michigan Safe Energy Future, Benton Harbor, MI, (269) 369-3993, [email protected] Iris…
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