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EVENT May 11: Radiation — Unseen and everywhere
From fracking to Fukushima Join us! Wednesday, May 11, 2022; 7:00 PM ET for Sierra Club NYC Group’s Sustainability Series. There are many types and levels of radiation, some occurs naturally, some are made by man. But there is no safe amount. We will look at radiation and health. You will learn how people are…
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Nuclear Hotseat, hosted by Libbe HaLevy, is a weekly international news magazine, keeping you up to date on all things nuclear from a different perspective. Since 2011, the Nuclear Hotseat podcast has been listened to by audiences in more than 124 countries around the world. Tune in each week as Libbe talks with her guest…
Read MoreA 600-hour shift at Chornobyl
Chornobyl nuclear power plant engineer, Liudmyla Kozak, has described to Reuters how what was supposed to have been a 12-hour work shift turned into 600 hours after Russian invading forces took over the site on February 24. While no Chornobyl plant workers were beaten up or harmed, Kozak said, they remained obedient to commands, fearing…
Read MoreAnother Zaporizhzhia near miss?
Unverified reports are coming in that a Russian missile that struck a factory in the southeastern Ukraine city of Zaporizhzhia could be one of two cruise missiles observed flying low over the six reactor nuclear power plant there, causing more alarm about another possible attack. The BBC, which said it could not verify the accuracy…
Read MoreTurmoil at Chornobyl
For 36 years things had been quiet at Chornobyl. Not uneventful. Not safe. But no one was warning of “another Chornobyl” until Russian forces took over the site on February 24 of this year. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine first took their troops through the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone, where they rolled armored vehicles across radioactive terrain,…
Read MoreMacron’s nuclear error
Progressives in France may be breathing a sigh of relief that at least the winner in last Sunday’s presidential election runoff was not the far right candidate, Marine Le Pen. But another term of Emmanuel Macron is a bitter consolation prize for the country’s — and Europe’s — anti-nuclear movement. Although not as unhinged as…
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Tune in to Beyond Nuclear on the NEIS Night With The Experts Linda Pentz Gunter of Beyond Nuclear will be the guest speaker for the Thursday, April 28 edition of Night With The Experts, presented and hosted by Nuclear Energy Information Service, at 8pm Eastern time. Linda will discuss how we can best message our…
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Nuclear-Free Future Award open for candidates The historic Nuclear-Free Future Award will be held again later this year and you can nominate a candidate to win. The award is offered in three categories — Resistance, Education and Solution. Founded in 1998, the Nuclear-Free Future Award honors people from around the world who have made an…
Read MoreA map of our nuclear nightmare
Nuclear power and nuclear weapons are inextricably linked, and that link began when the first gram of uranium ore was removed from the earth. Contrary to Indigenous beliefs, which insist that uranium ore must be left in the ground, the very people who cautioned against digging it up were forced to do this very work.…
Read MoreBiden’s $6 billion nuclear boondoggle
A statement from Beyond Nuclear The misguided but predictable decision by the Biden administration to waste $6 billion in taxpayer dollars propping up US reactors that were scheduled to close, further detours from and delays urgently needed action on the climate crisis. Just as predictably, conservative Democrat, Senator Joe Manchin, wrongfully claimed that the funding…
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