Impacts
Protect Better webinar series: Protect our health from radiation
Webinar 2 – “In the Weeds” What happens when radiation protection standards are weakened to make it easier to expand nuclear power? Wednesday, August 19 | 5pm – 7:30pm Pacific 8:00–9:30 PM Eastern REGISTER The Trump Administration has directed the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to overhaul long-standing radiation protection standards as part of a broader effort to…
Read MoreProtect Better Webinar Series: NRC Radiation Comments
Webinar #1 Wednesday, August 12 Time: 5:00 PM PT / 8:00 PM ET Webinar #1 Register Here The Trump Administration has directed the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to weaken long-standing radiation protection standards in order to accelerate the expansion of nuclear reactors, nuclear-powered data centers, and nuclear weapons production. Help stop nuclear powered data centers which are…
Read MoreClimate impacts on nuclear power reliability, safety
The US Government Accountability Office (GAO) published its congressional report on April 2, 2024 titled as a warning, “Nuclear Power Plants: NRC Should Take Actions to Fully Consider the Potential Effects of Climate Change.” Their report to Congress points to increasingly severe and more frequent climate hazards including extreme heat, drought, wildfires, severe storms, atmospheric…
Read MoreOpposition Mounting to Deep Fission
Beyond Nuclear is quoted in a July 28, 2026 Wall Street Journal article “An Underground Nuclear Reactor Is Coming to This Kansas Town—and Dividing Locals”, describing California nuclear start-up company Deep Fission’s plans for a 15 megawatt electric micro-reactor modular design to be operated at the bottom of a mile-deep borehole drilled into bedrock. Parsons, KS was…
Read MoreAleksey Nesterenko: Chornobyl health protector dies at 52
Aleksey Nesterenko, director of the Belrad Independent Institute for Radiation Protection, has passed away at the age of of 52 of cancer. His daughter Darya stated “[t]hroughout his life, he successfully combined science with humanism, putting his brilliant mind to work for the most disadvantaged and striving to make the world a better and safer…
Read MoreA Bomb for the Saudis?
Media reports suggest that the Trump administration has agreed not only to sell nuclear reactors to Saudi Arabia but to allow the country to enrich its own uranium. This raises two key questions. Why must Iran’s civil nuclear program be bombed into oblivion by the US and Israel to prevent it developing nuclear weapons, if…
Read MoreTELL NRC: Don’t weaken radiation standards
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission draft proposed rule (PR), allowing more radiation exposure at the industry’s discretion, has been published in the Federal Register. Deadline for comments is August 31, 2026. The PR would allow greater exposures “just to save the nuclear power industry money,” says Ed Lyman, Union of Concerned Scientists. But it is…
Read MoreTrump’s “nuclear socialism” more apparent as a grift
The libertarian non-profit Cato Institute just posted a stinging critique of the Trump’s White House latest scheme to jump start wildly expensive and unreliable “advanced” nuclear reactor construction but misdescribed a more apparent grift as “nuclear socialism.” Trump has offered Westinghouse Electric Company, now owned by two Canadian corporations that bought the corporation from the…
Read MoreNuclear madness will worsen the climate crisis
From Wyoming to Wales, a nuclear madness is infecting our political leaders, who are eagerly joining in the nuclear con game Many of us have been asking ourselves the same question recently. Why does there seem to be a collective taking leave of all senses gripping politicians everywhere when it comes to nuclear power? And…
Read MoreRadiation Trainwreck: Is NRC deregulating radiation standards?
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission released to the public yesterday its draft proposed rule (PR), allowing more radiation exposure. The PR is not published in the Federal Register (FR) as of this writing (12:15 PM ET), meaning the public must prepare comments now for submission in the future. We will announce when the PR is…
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