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International 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…
Read MoreChornobyl radiation makes Russian soldiers sick?
Russian troops are suffering from “acute radiation sickness”, according to the Daily Beast, after digging trenches in the Chornobyl area. As they were disturbing the highly-contaminated soil in the Red Forest of the Exclusion Zone — an area where not even highly-specialized Chornobyl personnel venture — the soldiers began falling ill and were transported to…
Read MoreThe IAEA in Ukraine
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) says it has “drawn up concrete and detailed plans for safety and security assistance to Ukraine’s nuclear sites”. The Director General of the IAEA, Rafael Mariano Grossi (pictured), is in Ukraine “for talks with senior government officials on the IAEA’s planned delivery of urgent technical assistance to ensure the…
Read MoreHow Three Mile Island birthed eco-feminism
Nuclear disaster motivated and mobilized women’s movement One of the perhaps lesser-known outcomes of the Three Mile Island nuclear disaster, marking it 43rd commemoration today, is that it inspired the popularization of what is now known as “eco-feminism.” Writes Grace Rivers, a sophomore at Georgetown University, in The Hoya: “Emerging in the 1970s and 80s with…
Read MoreSay ‘no’ to nuclear war
Add your voice! Join Nobel laureates to say no to nuclear war Sign the petition! The risk that nuclear weapons are used in Eastern Europe grows more acute as the violence in Ukraine descends into greater levels of despair, depravity, and uncertainty. Mobilizing public opinion – engaging everyday citizens who until now may not have worried…
Read MoreChornobyl satellite town under siege
The State Agency of Ukraine for Exclusion Zone management is reporting that the Chornobyl nuclear power plant satellite city of Slavutych is under attack. “Right now the enemy is trying to take the city of Slavutych by storm. Blockbuster shelling is underway,” says the agency’s Facebook page. Checkpoints are under heavy artillery fire. The State…
Read MoreChornobyl laboratory attacked?
A laboratory on the Chornobyl nuclear site that researches radioactive waste management has been “robbed and destroyed” by the occupying Russian military forces, according to the State Agency of Ukraine for Exclusion Zone Management. (Державне агентство України з управління зоною відчуження) The lab was created in 2015 in collaboration with the European Union and at…
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