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Groups Demand DOE EIS Before Agency Bails Out Palisades Zombie Reactor Restart
NEWS FROM BEYOND NUCLEAR For immediate releaseContact: Terry Lodge, environmental coalition co-counsel, (419) 205-7084, [email protected] Michael Keegan, Co-Chair, Don’t Waste Michigan, (734) 770-1441, [email protected] Kevin Kamps, radioactive waste specialist, Beyond Nuclear, (240) 462-3216, [email protected] Environmental Coalition Demands DOE Prepare EIS before Bailing Out Palisades for Unprecedented Restart NEPA Requires “Major Federal Project” Hard Look, Groups…
Read MoreSLOMFP/FOE challenge Diablo Canyon embrittlement
On September 14, 2023, Diane Curran and Hallie Templeton, legal counsel for San Luis Obispo Mothers for Peace (SLOMFP) and Friends of the Earth (FoE), respectively, submitted an emergency shutdown petition with the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) Commissioners regarding Diablo Canyon Unit 1 in California (pictured alongside Unit 2, overlooking the Pacific Ocean, above).…
Read MoreThe Ocean is NOT a Radioactive Waste Dump!
On August 26, Beyond Nuclear’s radioactive waste specialist, Kevin Kamps, gave a presentation to the organization No Nukes Kobe, in Japan, via Zoom. His presentation was in English; Rachel Clark translated into Japanese in real time. The presentation was about the hazards of tritium, in light of the ocean dumping of highly radioactive wastewater at…
Read MorePress Statement re: Palisades zombie reactor restart
NEWS FROM BEYOND NUCLEAR For immediate releaseContact: Kevin Kamps, radioactive waste specialist, Beyond Nuclear, [email protected], (240) 462-3216 Wolverine and Hoosier Rural Electric Co-Ops’ Power Purchase Agreement with Holtec for Palisades’ Electricity a ‘Pig in a Poke,’ Says Critic Reliability, Affordability, and Even Safety Put at Extreme Risk by Zombie Atomic Reactor Restart Scheme COVERT TOWNSHIP,…
Read MoreRadiation persists in wild boars
Some radionuclides persist in the environment once released, contaminating the food chain, creating widespread long-term risk of radiation exposure. Radiocesium, which has been released from civilian reactor meltdowns like Chornobyl and Fukushima, but also from worldwide atomic testing, is one such radionuclide. New research demonstrates that wild boars in Bavaria are not only contaminated by…
Read MoreTritium releases opposed as environmental and health concerns grow
Reactor community residents, state and federal political officials, public health experts, fishing industry advocates and environmentalists in the United States and countries around the world are calling for stricter protective action to prevent the international nuclear industry’s global discharge of its largest, and costliest, volume of liquid radioactive waste from nuclear power sites; tritium, radioactive…
Read MoreMarine expert disses dumping
According to marine expert Ken Buesseler, senior scientist at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Japan and TEPCO have “been only partially successful and only partially transparent” as they begin dumping some 350 million gallons of radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean. The water was contaminated by direct contact with the melted radioactive cores of the ruined…
Read MorePROTEST Japan’s radioactive Pacific dumping!
Japan has started releasing radioactive waste water from the devastating multiple meltdowns at the Fukushima nuclear power reactors into the Pacific Ocean. The release is opposed by fisherfolk, scientists, neighboring countries, civil society groups and individuals. Protests and actions are happening now (scroll down at link). We will continue to post any updates. Sign this…
Read MoreACT NOW: The Pacific is not a nuclear dump
People worldwide are signing a petition to stop Japan from dumping radioactive wastewater into the Pacific. The devastating multiple meltdowns at the Fukushima nuclear power reactors are still contaminating Japan, and the waters and sea life off of its coast. Approval of dumping by the International Atomic Energy Agency was based on non-existent or mediocre…
Read MoreLow-dose radiation risk underestimated
New research tracking the deaths of workers in the nuclear industry indicates that risk for cancer death from protracted exposure to external, low-dose radiation has been underestimated. Some of the evidence even indicates a steeper slope for the dose-response association in the low dose range than over the full dose range. Up to now, the…
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