Nuclear Power
Drone strikes Chornobyl waste building
A Russian drone struck and significantly damaged a radioactive waste storage building (pictured before damage) at the closed Chornobyl nuclear power plant site on Sunday, close to where “large amounts of nuclear material” are stored, according to the International Atomic Energy Agency. Ukraine accused Russia of using a Shahed drone, the same kind that in…
Read MoreSusan Mirsky honored
Susan Mirsky, board member and Nuclear Disarmament Chair for Massachusetts Peace Action, and a founding member of Newton Dialogues on Peace and War, is the 2026 recipient of the Dr. Judith H. Johnsrud Unsung Hero Award. The Award is presented by Beyond Nuclear as part of the annual Alliance for Nuclear Accountability awards held in…
Read MoreA Moral Imperative: Adopting the Nuclear Truth Project protocols
Speaking before an international audience of researchers, policymakers, and diplomats, Benetick Kabua Maddison (pictured above accepting the Nuclear Free Future Award), Co-Chair of the Nuclear Truth Project (NTP) and Executive Director of the Marshallese Educational Initiative, opened not with a plea, but with a demand. He came, he said, “not as a statistic, not as…
Read MoreWatch the Hill Briefing on nuclear power risks
A Beyond Nuclear and Nuclear Information and Resource Service expert briefing on nuclear energy Inherent Danger, Unaffordable Power: Energy and nuclear experts warn scrapping safety regulations to power artificial intelligence will deliver high costs and dire safety, climate, and security risks. The event took place on Tuesday, June 2, 2026 in Room 188, Russell Senate…
Read MorePrivate companies to get weapons plutonium
Dangerous plutonium to be offered to private reactor startup companies in an unprecedented move that crosses a non-proliferation line held for decades In yet another alarming development coming out of the White House, private corporations proposing risky and untested startup reactors are to be given access to plutonium, the trigger component in a nuclear bomb. …
Read MoreUrge Congress to attend!
Please let your members of Congress know about this important briefing by experts on Capitol Hill and urge them to send a staffer to attend and learn more. Call the Congress switchboard to reach your senators and representatives: (202) 224-3121. Beyond Nuclear and Nuclear Information and Resource Service present an expert briefing on nuclear energy…
Read MoreDrone danger
Drones are everywhere on the modern battlefield, and autonomous armed drones are coming. Some have already struck at nuclear power plant sites in Ukraine, Russia and even the UAE — not technically at war. Missiles have bombarded Iran’s nuclear facilities. All this makes the likelihood of a major nuclear disaster greater, and the outcome infinitely…
Read MoreNukes and cancer: proximity associated with deaths
In the latest study from Harvard T. Chan School of Public Health, proximity to nuclear power reactors was associated with elevated mortality from breast, colon, and lung cancers. Examining data from 2000 to 2020, almost 40,000 female deaths and 40,000 male deaths were estimated to be attributable to this proximity. Lung cancer accounted for most…
Read MoreWebinars upcoming on No To Nuclear
TRANSATLANTIC DIALOGUE Transatlantic Dialogue is an initiative that joins activists primarily from North America and the United Kingdom in discussion about nuclear power and nuclear weapons. Join the conversation on Tuesday, May 26 when Linda Pentz Gunter of Beyond Nuclear explores the stories in her book — No To Nuclear. Why Nuclear Power Destroys Lives,…
Read MoreCorporate greenwashing is rampant
This week on Beyond Nuclear International, we republish a searing article by UK climate campaigner and longtime thought leader in this space, Jonathon Porritt. If we are to truly get ‘beyond nuclear’, dispensing once and for all with nuclear power and fossil fuels, we must avoid a corporate green new deal. What’s in the way…
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