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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…
Read MoreNuclear power blown away by wind
As backward-thinking dinosaurs in the US Senate continue to push nuclear power, that technology has been literally blown away by wind. On March 29, wind power produced more electricity than both coal and nuclear power, the first time in US history that wind has ranked in front of coal and nuclear on the same day,…
Read MorePeace petition tops one million; goes to UN
On April 12, the IPPNW petition to reject war and nuclear weapons was delivered at United Nations Headquarters in New York. Launched by 16 Nobel Peace Prize Laureates and so far joined by 1,061,000 citizens worldwide, the open letter calls for “an immediate ceasefire and the withdrawal of all Russian military forces from Ukraine, and…
Read MoreRadiation Symposium April 23: Health lessons from Rocky Flats
Join Physicians for Social Responsibility, Colorado for a symposium on April 23, exploring health and environmental contamination. While the symposium is centered on issues still plaguing the Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons Plant, much of the information is applicable to other contaminated sites. Rocky Flats produced plutonium triggers for atomic weapons from 1952 until 1989. It…
Read MoreInternational report reveals nuclear is boondoggle for climate
If a picture is worth a thousand words, then this chart from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 2022 report Mitigation of Climate Change reveals our entire carbon-free future roadmap, encapsulating the nearly 3,000 page, highly-detailed report, in a single page (and some fine print footnotes). Not surprisingly, nuclear power is exposed…
Read MoreInteractive map shows threat to Ukraine’s reactors
Greenpeace International has created an interactive map displaying the locations of Ukraine’s nuclear power sites and their proximity to Russian military forces since the invasion on February 24, 2022. Using publicly-sourced information, it tracks, at fixed time intervals, the movement of the Russian military and makes clear how vulnerable Ukraine’s civilian power reactors are as…
Read MoreExperts return to devastated Chornobyl area
Experts were able to return to Chornobyl* for the first time since the Russian military seized the defunct, and highly radioactive, Chornobyl site. According to the State Agency of Ukraine for Exclusion Zone Management (DAZV) they traversed extremely difficult conditions — including destroyed bridges and roadways — and have taken photographs of the first part…
Read MoreBeyond Nuclear v. NRC: More join opposition to proposed waste dumps
On March 25, Natural Resource Defense Council and the City of Fort Worth filed Amicus briefs with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. They support legal challenges brought against the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s approval of Interim Storage Partners’ consolidated interim storage facility in West Texas. NRDC focused on the ISP…
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