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Another 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…
Read MoreNominate a winner!
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…
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