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Legal clash over dumping ban in NY
An article in The New Lede delineates the legal struggle between the anti-dumping law passed in New York last August, and the lawsuit filed by company Holtec. Holtec payed a 5 million dollar fine to the neighboring state of New Jersey to avoid criminal prosecution, and wants to dump the radioactive isotope tritium into the…
Read MoreJohnson pulls gutted RECA bill
Update: US House Speaker Mike Johnson has pulled his watered-down version of the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act that would have extended the bill past its June 7th expiration date but omitted key constituents. A vote will no longer be held on Johnson’s so-called “clean” (read “cheaper”) version of the RECA extension. Lawmakers from Missouri, in…
Read More“Terrible news”
Legislation banning Russian uranium imports should have been a driver to phase out nuclear power. Instead, the new bill will further victimize Native American communities with US uranium mining expansion. The bill signed by President Biden last week adds uranium to the list of fossil fuel imports now banned from Russia due to its war…
Read More“The New Nuclear Push” — Beyond Nuclear board member Karl Grossman interviews our radioactive waste specialist, Kevin Kamps
Enviro Close-Up #689 The New Nuclear Push with Kevin Kamps of Beyond Nuclear Part 1 “We are up against the biggest push for nuclear power that I’ve ever experienced in 32 years of anti-nuclear power activism,” says Kevin Kamps of the organization Beyond Nuclear. Kamps refutes the claim of the nuclear industry that nuclear power…
Read MoreUNSUNG HERO: Johnsrud Award to Wally Taylor
Beyond Nuclear will award the 2024 Dr. Judith H. Johnsrud “Unsung Hero” Award to Cedar Rapids, Iowa-based environmental attorney Wally Taylor. The award will be presented by the inaugural recipient of the Johnsrud Award in 2014, Diane D’Arrigo of NIRS. Johnsrud, D’Arrigo, and Taylor share the special connection of working very hard for many decades…
Read MoreResisting Holtec’s nuclear relapse
[Yard sign design by Michigan Safe Energy Future-Kalamazoo Chapter and Palisades Shut Down Campaign; photo by Kevin Kamps.] Will Wade published an article in Bloomberg on May 8, 2024. It is entitled “The Company Preaching Americ’as Nuclear Revival: Holtec got its start making storage casks for radioactive waste. Now it wants to power the next…
Read MoreANA DC Days evening events, May 20-22
The Alliance for Nuclear Accountability is excited to announce its lineup of evening events during the annual DC Days. Please read on below. (It is still not too late to register to attend DC Days as well!) —————————————————————————————- A special aspect of these evening events is the opportunity to invite friends and allies from the…
Read MoreBeyond Nuclear on WORT re: zombie nuke!
NRC Meets with Holtec to Discuss Re-Start of Dead Nuclear Power Plant Kevin Kamps, Radioactive Waste Watchdog from Beyond Nuclear, talks about Monday’s pre-submittal meeting for Holtec Decommissioning International, LLC to discuss with the NRC staff its plan to submit a Quality Assurance Plan to support potential reauthorization of power operations at Palisades Nuclear Plant.…
Read MoreStark warnings about reviving nuclear energy
Stephanie Cooke, author of “In Mortal Hands: A Cautionary History of the Nuclear Age,” and a former editor of Nuclear Intelligence Weekly, has written an opinion piece (free with email) in the New York Times on how nuclear power will likely continue to fail us as we attempt to address our climate crisis: “World leaders…
Read MoreNuclear industry avoiding accountability for climate crisis impacts
An April 23, 2024 article published by the Yale School of the Environment probes the nuclear industry’s effort to extend the operating licenses of its aging atomic power stations while avoiding accountability to the cost and risks associated with doing business in an accelerating climate crisis. Author James Dinneen asks “Can aging US nuclear power…
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